Rochester Institute of Technology professor David Farnsworth is a mathematician and a statistician by trade, and a "beader" by design. The Brighton resident has taught at RIT for 31 years and is as ...

In Singapore, women in the Peranakan community have revived the art of creating figures and geometric designs on their slippers. By Alec Scott Reporting from Singapore In October, Angeline Kong was ...

[imgbelt img=matattoo530.jpg]The bond deepens between two Ojibwe women. Mary Annette Pember will wear Mothers Day from now on. Beadwork made by the late Bernice Pember. In keeping with Ojibwe ...

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 ...

Unless one is Native American, getting a grasp of complex Native American spiritual cosmologies is not easy. And that distinction, which might be called a quality of profound otherness, is in essence ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Wendy Altschuler is a seasoned travel and adventure writer and author. Fashioning a strategy that lifts up and empowers indigenous ...

Beads may be seen merely as ornaments, but for the Indigenous communities of Sarawak, they are symbols of identity, history ...

Cheyenne Faulkner is taking life one bead at a time. After sharing her beadwork on social media, the second-year microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics student said she transitioned from ...

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 ...

Dana Benjoe shows off her hot pink heels decorated with turquoise beads at the school where she works. At special events, she sports regalia beaded with designs and colours inspired by her spiritual ...