Thousands of tiny glass beads skillfully sewn onto an array of items make a statement not only of beauty, but of the history and culture of a people. “Floral Journey: Native North American Beadwork” ...

Above the Arctic Circle, where the temperature plumets below zero and darkness abounds for months, the art of Indigenous beading sustains the resilience of the Alaskan Gwich’in Athabaskan culture.

In the 19th century, European traders and colonists brought glass beads to the United States, and Native American artists began using them in their textile embellishment work. Before beadwork, there ...

So there’s this new show out called “Reservation Dogs.” It follows four teenagers on a reservation in Oklahoma. Even though there are only a handful of episodes out right now, the show is the talk of ...

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, ...

In an era when an image can be a function of pixels, art forms that go back hundreds of years continue to dazzle. A traditional art now on display at the Clark County Historical Museum is a result of ...

Rhonda Besaw sits at her table fabric in front of her, tiny bead in one hand, needle in the other. With the first prick of the needle, she starts the conversation with her ancestors. “I take up the ...

Eliza Skenandore might have grown up on the Oneida reservation, but she says it was years before she came to truly appreciate the culture of the Oneidas. “I went through the Oneida school system all ...

Beading feels natural for Amelia Rivera. She sat down at a table in her apartment on Douglas Island in February, rhythmically threading two needles in and out of a piece she’s been working on recently ...

In honor of Native American Heritage Month, we're exploring what it means to be a resilient, young Indigenous person in 2020 and the changemakers working to decolonize our world. But we endured, and ...

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 ...