They also beaded objects more heavily, in the style of Lakota pieces. By 1890, after the establishment of the reservation system and the end of the treaty-making era, traditional Native economies ...

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 ...

Designers Meet the Native American Artist Whose Hand-Beaded Skate Shoes Have Become a Sensation By Rachel Marlowe February 5, 2018 Photos: Courtesy of Charlene Holy Bear ...

From the smallest beads come the biggest stories, strung together across hundreds of cultures and generations of Indigenous ...

See bead artisans at work during a demonstration. The Choctaw nation has been beading for countless generations, and beads and patterns have evolved with the times.

Her portrait shows her dressed in hand-beaded regalia in the colors and patterns of the Lakota and Dakota tribes, standing near a river in a park close to her home in Denver.

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — An exhibition of contemporary bead art with 100 works from Native American and Indigenous artists will open in April in downtown Indianapolis.