The Santa Fe museum actively cultivates the soil for current and future generations of Native artists to thrive, a duty that extends far beyond preservation and display.

For generations, Native Americans prized dentalium or tusk shells as currency, status symbols and sacred objects. Harvested in the Pacific, they were traded thousands of miles inland, held real value ...

By Kylie Caldwell, Gaylord NewsMany Native American tribes view remains and sacred objects as living entities, not ...