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• JayleneSlide@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The Salish Tribes existed in the PacNW for over 13,000 years without money.

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  • crashfrog@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Weren’t they the ones that used shells as money?

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    • JayleneSlide@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Wampum was used by Eastern Costal tribes as a storytelling aid.

      In the Salish Tribes, dentalium shell necklaces were used as a status symbol/indication of social rank. Some tribes used the necklaces as a type of currency, but I’ve only heard the “some tribes did this” part; never anything about which specific tribes used dentalium as currency.

      Obviously, anything that holds perceived value can be traded.

      Source: went to junior high in a school that taught two full years of Haudenosaunee (also called Iroquois) history.

      Salish source: I’ve been a volunteer naturalist in the Puget Sound for eight years with an annual training requirement, with entire days allocated to history of the original Salish tribe for the area where we’re working.

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      • crashfrog@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        If trade occurs, then by definition they have currency; there are no barter economies.

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