Centuries before Europeans arrived with glass trading beads, Native people who lived in what is now Minnesota were making beads from stone, shells, teeth and bone. Dakota and Ojibwe women used these ...

‘Originally I learned to bead and sew from my grandmas at home and one of my aunts,” Blanche Sam said. “My aunt showed me how to make the earrings.” Now as an adult, Sam runs Brilliant Beads by ...

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 ...

The role of women art-makers in Native communities has gone widely ignored. Now a bold museum show, by and for these women, is shining a light on 1,000 years of their art. Sonya Kelliher-Combs ...