By the 1980s and 1990s, when she tried to sell her intricately beaded bracelets adorned with spiritual stories from her Native American ancestry, “people would say to me, ‘I don’t get it ...

The Native American artist Charlene Holy Bear’s first foray into ... (hand-beaded leather jackets were ... This Antique Jewelry Dealer Bride Wore an Art Deco Tiara as a Headband for ...

We invite you to discover and purchase authentic, handmade, one-of-a-kind fine arts and crafts, paintings, pottery, jewelry, sculpture, bead work and leather work from our Native American Artisans.

Charlene Holy Bear, a Native American artist and member of the Standing Rock Lakota Sioux Tribe, first dabbled with beading footwear a couple of years ago when she traveling with her then four ...

By the mid-20th century, after the government encouraged Native people to relocate to cities, beadwork itself came to represent resistance to assimilation and survival of culture.

Billie Jo Greene lifts her necklace for closer inspection: 10 small skulls carved out of elk bone strung on a leather thong.Custom motorcycle leathers, Southwestern jewelry, Native American art ...