On cold, frigid nights, the women of Tuscarora stayed warm inside working on their beadwork projects. Beautiful creations of beadwork items often called “whimsies” were made on the reservation and ...

An exhibit of works by Haudenosaunee artists is in the Brush Gallery at St. Lawrence University. The Haudenosaunee confederacy (also known as the Iroquois confederacy) is made up of six indigenous ...

STEVENS POINT, Wis. (WSAW) - An Oneida Nation woman of Stevens Point is being nationally recognized for her creative skills. Karen Ann Hoffman is a Haudenosaunee Raised Beadworker and has been ...

Karen Ann Hoffman connects with her Oneida heritage through Iroquois beadwork. Stevens Point resident Karen Ann Hoffman is both a student and teacher of Iroquois raised beadwork. It’s an ancient art ...

I am Maynard White Owl Lavadour, born and raised on the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, which includes the Cayuse, Walla Walla and Umatilla people, near the city of Pendleton ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) At a Wisconsin 4th of July parade, an Oneida ...

Oneida Nation Dreams Alive Beading Circle share the revival of Iroquois Raised Beadwork. Award-winning bead circle members Betty Willems & Judith L. Jourdan trace the history of beading. Beading ...

Rebecca Doxtator, owner of Otsitsidesigns in London, Ont., is among a new generation of Indigenous beadwork artists who've combined tradition with novel ways to create works of art. (Submitted by ...

NEW YORK, March 15 (UPI) -- Most American Indians practiced the needlework craft of beading but none with more skill and artistry than the tribes of the Iroquois nation in communities in New York ...

LEWISTON – The raised rows of tiny, colorful glass beads line up in a precise fashion, creating designs of flowers, leaves, birds and the Iroquois’ symbolic “celestial tree” on two of Bryan Printup’s ...

At Monte Albán, a pre-Columbian archaeological site in Oaxaca, Mexico, the artist Anni Albers encountered ancient jewelry composed of stones and shells. The artifacts inspired Albers to make jewelry ...

When her Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk) community announced that it would be heading into a month-long stretch of new measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus, Jessica Hernandez said she was worried ...