Typically, European colonizers are seen as the main drivers of these ancient exchange networks, yet a new analysis of 370-year-old glass beads indicates that Native communities were conducting ...

A new study of European beads reveals the “extensive reach” of Native American trade networks in the 17th century. Image from the journal Antiquity European glass beads reached parts of North ...

Bead & Powwow Supply opened at 5747 28th St. SE in Cascade Township to “re-Indigenize” the oldest trade on Turtle Island, a term for Earth or North America in many Native American and ...

By Janelle Conaway Reporting from Santa Fe, N.M. In the early-morning chill of the high desert, almost 100 Native American artisans, most of them jewelry ... Whaler, a bead worker from Santo ...

BCLS’s upcoming installment of ‘Native American Culture Class’ with the Wassamasaw Tribe of Varnertown Indians will focus on jewelry beading. The tribe’s cultural preservationist ...

In honor of Native American Heritage Month ... My grandmother taught me how to string beads at a very young age, so I had something to keep me busy. When I make jewelry today, I feel that magic.

Emalyce Kee, who is Diné (Navajo) and Rosebud Sioux, still does not understand why she wasn’t allowed to wear a beaded graduation cap with an eagle plume from Cedar City High in 2021.