Throughout the show, visitors see how popular Native-American patterns created with quills ... s a poem or a dance or a piece of jewelry or a piece of bead work, all of that is very important ...

Centuries before Europeans arrived with glass trading beads, Native people ... and craft jewelry, establishing a rich creative tradition. Even as the materials changed, bead art continued to ...

A Native American designer has become a viral fashion ... alongside stunning hand beaded jewelry that's also available for purchase. Her current pieces stem from Charlene's original work as ...

The Native American artist Charlene Holy Bear ... Holy Bear is still a one-woman show, laying out every pattern and hand-stitching each bead using traditional methods. Each custom pair of ...

(KTAL/KMSS)—It’s National Native ... jewelry? See bead artisans at work during a demonstration. The Choctaw nation has been beading for countless generations, and beads and patterns have ...