# Two Row Wampum

> Two Row Wampum is mapped as the prior relation: it asserts political orders, land relations, memory, and sovereignty that precede or resist settler institutions.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Stable ID | `node:kiduna:political-change:indigenous-decolonial:two-row-wampum` |
| Family | Indigenous Governance & Decolonial Change |
| Domain | Rights |
| Kind | movement |
| Archetypal function | The Prior Relation |
| Epistemic status | synthesis; supported |

## Concrete anchor

Two Row Wampum belongs to the **Indigenous Governance & Decolonial Change** family. It is treated as a specific political object, role, institution, tactic, event, ideology, or mechanism before any symbolic transfer is made.

## What it does

Two Row Wampum asserts political orders, land relations, memory, and sovereignty that precede or resist settler institutions, changing who can act, what becomes visible, and which costs are distributed to others.

## Who gains and who loses power

The mechanism can increase the capacity of actors able to use Two Row Wampum, while shifting cost, delay, risk, exclusion, or dependence toward actors with less authority, information, organization, money, or safe access. The distribution is conditional, not an essence of the node.

## Archetypal function

**The Prior Relation.** Two Row Wampum is mapped as the prior relation: it asserts political orders, land relations, memory, and sovereignty that precede or resist settler institutions.

## Gift

restores self-determination and plural legal-political worlds; through Two Row Wampum, that capacity becomes available for deliberate use.

## Wound / Shadow

gets reduced to symbolism, extraction of tradition, or a single Indigenous voice; Two Row Wampum can then reproduce the very arrangement it claims to change.

## Conditions

- scale and jurisdiction are explicit
- affected people and absent stakeholders are named
- time horizon and countermoves are considered

## Strategic meaning

Use Two Row Wampum to identify the operative target, resource, dependency, decision forum, and likely countermove. Ask what would make the mechanism stronger, weaker, more legitimate, or less necessary.

## Divinatory meaning

The Prior Relation enters through Two Row Wampum. Read for the capacity seeking expression, the cost displaced from view, and the relationship that changes if the frame moves.

**Question:** What changes when Two Row Wampum becomes the unit of analysis rather than background?

## Game function

**leverage.** Reveal one hidden dependency connected to Two Row Wampum; another player names a countermove. Initiative 1.

## Relationships

- **translates into — Consensus Governance:** Consensus Governance translates into Two Row Wampum by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **enables — Truth and Reconciliation:** Two Row Wampum enables Truth and Reconciliation by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **counteracts — Election:** Election counteracts Two Row Wampum by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_
- **enables — Pro-Democracy Coalition:** Two Row Wampum enables Pro-Democracy Coalition by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_

## Countermaps and polarity prompts

- Read Two Row Wampum from the viewpoint of the actor who bears its cost.
- Reverse cause and symptom: what if Two Row Wampum is an effect of the system it appears to drive?
- Change the clock: what looks different over a day, an election cycle, a generation, and a century?
- Ask when the Gift becomes the Wound through scale, secrecy, intensity, latency, or unequal reciprocity.

## Epistemic and Sentinel note

Claim layers: synthesis, interpretive, symbolic_divinatory. Scope, jurisdiction, period, and source perspective may change the claim.
No node-specific Sentinel factors were recorded; ordinary source, audience, and context checks still apply.

## Visual direction

A text-free enamel expression of Two Row Wampum: one dominant mechanism, one counterforce, raised warm-metal linework, midnight field, restrained civic red, teal, ivory, and amber. No party logo, national flag, sacred symbol, or recognizable person.

## Research / provenance

- [The Haudenosaunee Confederacy](https://www.haudenosauneeconfederacy.com/) — Haudenosaunee Confederacy, ongoing. Contemporary self-description of governance, nations, and the Great Law of Peace.
- [S. Con. Res. 76](https://www.congress.gov/bill/100th-congress/senate-concurrent-resolution/76) — U.S. Senate, 1988. Congressional acknowledgment of Haudenosaunee influence claims; not resolution of scholarly debate.
- [UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples](https://www.ohchr.org/en/indigenous-peoples/un-declaration-rights-indigenous-peoples) — United Nations, 2007. International declaration concerning self-determination, culture, land, and participation.

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Engine Output version 1.0.0; generated 2026-08-24T00:00:00Z. Sentinel annotations are stored separately in `sentinel/handoffs.json`.
