Big Chief Demond Melancon of the Young Seminole Hunters has been taking it to the streets for decades as a part of the Black Masking Indian culture of New Orleans. He joins others in magnificent suits ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

PARK RAPIDS, Minn. -- When she was 7 years old, Neegonee Brunner’s great-aunt Laura Fineday taught her to bead and follow the traditions of the Anishinaabeg culture. From that first project to the ...

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 ...

As you wander throughout the fair, there seems to be many great exhibit booths. In a small booth in the second exhibit building, two direct descendants of Sacajawea, Ester Burnett and her daughter Liz ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Provenience note, not every object in ...