Haudenosaunee artists and historians reflect on how raised beadwork evolved through time. Haudenosaunee raised beadwork flourished as a tourist trade in the Northeast starting in the 1800s, after the ...

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 ...

Raised beadwork by Niio Perkins Niio Perkins of Akwesasne is an acclaimed designer and bead artist. CTV’s Joel Haslam says her work is being showcased on the world stage.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...