Above the Arctic Circle, where the temperature plumets below zero and darkness abounds for months, the art of Indigenous ...

Global Beaded Jewelry Industry Overview The global beaded jewelry industry is distinguished by its fusion of contemporary fashion sensibility with cultural history. Beaded jewelry, which can be made ...

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 ...

CASCADE TOWNSHIP, MI - A new business offering a variety of Indigenous arts and crafts has opened on Grand Rapids’ southeast side. Bead & Powwow Supply opened at 5747 28th St. SE in Cascade Township ...

Centuries before Europeans arrived with glass trading beads, Native people who lived in what is now Minnesota were making beads from stone, shells, teeth and bone. Dakota and Ojibwe women used these ...

Dakota people in what is now Minnesota began using glass beads to decorate clothing, bags, and household items in the mid-nineteenth century. The practice both reinforced and transformed Dakota art, ...

We're told it takes a lot to get on the Met Gala red carpet. Generally, an invite seems to require some semblance of notoriety, fame, and talent. But for certain groups, despite having all of the ...

When Mike Schur, Ed Helms and I pitched our show “Rutherford Falls,” I wore my “power pieces” to every meeting. I sported Native American jewelry that I knew would make me enter each room with my chin ...