On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 01:25:26PM -0400, Gregory Haley wrote:
I have no idea why it's called Wampum though.
It's an American term, derived from the some groups of the first indigenous people in America who refered to whatever was used for exchanges as "Wampum". I'm not sure if this is historically accurate or part of the white's apocrypha regarding Native Americans.
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