Every summer, there’s one particular booth at the Santa Fe Indian Market that always draws a crowd. The annual event, which is the largest indigenous market in North America, features a number of ...

Mikailah Thompson is an Indigenous beadwork artist based in Washington, D.C. When she was 10 years old, Thompson moved to the Nimiipuu reservation in North-Central Idaho where she lived with her ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Wendy Altschuler is a seasoned travel and adventure writer and author. Fashioning a strategy that lifts up and empowers indigenous ...

IT’S FOR THE EYES ONLY. TALK ABOUT A LITERAL REPRESENTATION OF EYE CANDY. SURE, SUGAR BABIES ARE NOTORIOUSLY TOUGH ON THE TEETH, BUT THESE ARE REALLY IMPOSSIBLE. THEY’RE OBJECTS OF ART. THE WORK OF ...

Designers are again embracing a style that dates back to antiquity. By Libby Banks With its bows, tiny shells, and glass flowers and hearts, Yona Kohen’s beaded jewelry requires a shift of aesthetic ...

Interest in Indigenous artistry has created an ecosystem of beadwork drops that sell out in minutes online. By Anna V. Smith Last year, after the museum that Tayler Gutierrez worked at in Salt Lake ...

Beadwork is a pillar of Indigenous design. While various tribes hold different design specialties—the Navajo, for example, are best known for their weaving and textiles—much of the Native community ...

Students gathered Tuesday afternoon for a beading workshop for the final event of MSU’s Native American Heritage Month. The event was hosted by American Indian and Indigenous Studies professors Ellie ...

I am Maynard White Owl Lavadour, born and raised on the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, which includes the Cayuse, Walla Walla and Umatilla people, near the city of Pendleton ...

This page was researched and composed by Rachel Steinberg, '13, while she was an undergraduate volunteer in the Anthropology Department. The majority of the items in this collection are the artistic ...