Have you ever gazed at a woven basket, a painted rock, or a beaded garment and felt a strange sense of harmony—like the ...

U.S. Army Lt. John W. Gunnison, then working on a survey of the Great Lakes, wrote a letter to his Mormon friend, Albert ...

Stamps have enshrined the faces of presidents, celebrated the end of world wars and raised money for the treatment of ...

In his cozy workshop behind his D.C. home, contemporary kumiko craftsman David Gootnick, a Craft Show featured artist, uses the raw material of his practice: a five-foot-long, two-inch-thick plank of ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art is gearing up to unveil the largest contemporary Native American bead art exhibition, Radical Stitch. The only stop ...

Democratic State Rep. Maurice West, left, from Rockford filed the Native American imagery bill. Republican state Rep. Bill Hauter, right, from Morton voted against it. The Illinois House has passed ...

SPRINGFIELD -- Illinois K-12 schools may soon be required to pick new mascots to replace those that reference Native American names and imagery. That would include logos, team names and mascots ...

Steve Bradfield is a second year Native American and Indigenous Studies major who will display a ribbon Navajo shirt, beadwork, a doll and toddler moccasins made from cowhide and suede. He said what ...

People who do not buy American stuff promise not to buy American stuff. This does not seem as scary as when Donald Sutherland let out a bird-like screech at the end of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Cutout black construction paper at the bottom of the sculpture allows the overhead light to spell out a message on the gallery floor: “You Are on Native Land.” “Woven Being: Art for ...

That dream has now come true. This week, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York opened the first major survey of her work, after the traveling exhibit's first stop at the San Francisco ...