Liz Romero had purchased a selection of beaded wallets from a Native wholesaler, planning to sell them in her small art shop and display some of them at a local powwow in October. She had been assured ...

The Mokuck, a distinctively shaped birchbark basket seen in many variations throughout Native Indian art, arouses a viewer's curiosity and admiration. "Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous," murmured a woman ...

Each wampum bracelet, pendant and pair of earrings that Aquinnah Wampanoag artist Elizabeth James-Perry creates is hand-crafted and unique. “This is from the quahog shell in Massachusetts. It’s a hard ...

A new exhibit at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts in Little Rock is an exploration of modern American Indian art inspired by Abstract Expressionism, Color Field, and the Hard-Edge painting movements. ...

PAGUATE, N.M. — Flat-roofed homes with exterior walls hand-stacked from western New Mexico’s signature buff, mud-plastered limestone cluster around the central plaza in this Laguna Pueblo town. One is ...

"Cheyennes Chasing Antelope" at the Donald Ellis Gallery booth at Expo Chicago 2024, from A complete Fort Marion drawing book (1876) illustrated by Bear's Heart (Nockkoist, Tsis tsis'tas) and ...

Four young Indigenous artists represent the next generation of Native art, polishing their work and their talents.

Fort Marion Ledger book illustrated by Bears Heart Nnock-ko-ist, Cheyenne, 1851–1882) and Ohet-toint (High Forehead, Kiowa, 1848-1934). The rumors were true. Long mythologized in the Native American ...

A frisky group of Indigenous performers, videomakers and sculptors have a presence in the art world they haven’t had before. By Holland Cotter Holland Cotter, the co-chief art critic, reviewed from ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The American government tried to force American Indians to abandon their culture and assimilate to western culture. The forced changes didn’t fully take hold. Roughly 60 ...

A close-up of a jeweler's stand at the 2015 edition of the Santa Fe Indian Market (photo by Larry Lamsa via Flickr) Federal commissioners and Congress members are seeking to update the Indian Arts and ...