Vogue

Meet 8 Indigenous Beaders Who Are Modernizing Their Craft

Beadwork is a pillar of Indigenous design. While various tribes hold different design specialties—the Navajo, for example, are best known for their weaving and textiles—much of the Native community ...
Forbes

Afro-Indigenous Beadwork Artist Creates One-Of-A-Kind Designs

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Wendy Altschuler is a seasoned travel and adventure writer and author. Fashioning a strategy that lifts up and empowers indigenous ...
WOOD-TV

GR-area Indigenous craft supply shop hosts story time event

CASCADE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — An Indigenous craft supply shop in the Grand Rapids area is launching a monthly storytelling event for kids. Bead & Powwow Supply, located at 5747 28th St. SE near ...
Marketplace

This Indigenous artist made her beadwork into a thriving business

Mikailah Thompson is an Indigenous beadwork artist based in Washington, D.C. When she was 10 years old, Thompson moved to the Nimiipuu reservation in North-Central Idaho where she lived with her ...
Vogue

These Indigenous Beadworkers Are Infusing Tradition With a Sense of Humor

In season one, episode four of Reservation Dogs—the successful FX series following four Indigenous teens in Oklahoma—one of the main characters, Bear (D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai), wants to purchase a beaded ...
Teen Vogue

Native American Beadwork Is Inextricably Tied to Decolonization

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 ...