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Splendor in the Glass
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 “You’re turning, turning. Softly. Okay, stop. Blow. Stand by in three, two, one. Torch it!”
Dancing?
Cooking? No, but to artists such as Tony Jojola and his team of
assistants, the art of glass-blowing is as choreographed as a dance and
demands the precision timing of a chef preparing crème brûlée. Native
American glass art
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2006 July/August
By Site Editor
| Published 07/1/2006
| Antiquities , Painting , Glass , Beadwork , Pottery , Cultural Items , Sculpture , Basketry , 2006 , Seminole , Paiute , Choctaw , Chippewa , Chickasaw , Tlingit , Aleut , Hopi , Pueblo , Navajo , Cherokee
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Benjamin Harjo, Jr. (Shawnee/Seminole) has an infectious sense of mirth
and creative energy, which he pours into his award-winning paintings,
both large and small. Photo courtesy Ackerman McQueen.
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Tradition! Arts and Crafts Revived
By Gussie Fauntleroy
| Published 12/1/2005
| Yokut , Ute , Tlingit , Sioux , Shoshone , Paiute , Navajo , Muskogee , Haida , Diné , Creek , Cree , Confederated Tribes of Umatilla , Choctaw , Cherokee , Gussie Fauntleroy , Wood Carving , Textiles/Weaving , Cultural Items , November/December
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 For many Native artisans, it was the memory of a grandmother’s deftly moving fingers, or a grandfather’s quiet words, that stirred up a powerful desire to learn and carry on an ancient skill perhaps in danger of being lost to the modern world. In some cases, the effort of a single artist—who taught someone else, who then taught someone else—has revived and preserved important ancient Native crafts.
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2005 July/August
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Floyd
Red Crow Westerman (Dakota), star of numerous movies and television
shows, wears a 19th-century Crow war shirt of indigo-dyed wool trade
cloth with ermine fur drops, and holds a Crow tanned-hide rifle case,
circa 1890, with Venetian seed beads.
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Traditional Fashion From Seminole & Plains to Navajo & Pueblo
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 Larry Price—originally from Sheep Springs, New Mexico and a member of the Navajo Nation—has a passion for creating photographic images. Price didn't get serious about photography until January 2002 when he came across an article in Photographic Magazine about a photographer from Flagstaff, Arizona. The imagery in those pages moved him.
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2005 January/February
By Site Editor
| Published 01/5/2005
| Painting , Katsinas/Kachinas , Jewelry/Lapidary , 2005 , Bannock , Maidu , Yaqui , Shoshone , Seminole , Luiseño , Choctaw , Hopi , Pueblo , Lakota , Navajo , Cherokee
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This
spectacular dancer, Susan Armijo (Mexica), a member of the Aztec-styled
dance and music troupe America Indigena, led by flautist Xavier Quijas
Yxayotl, enthralled audiences last March at the Heard Museum Guild
Indian Fair & Market and will return for this year’s event.
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Rez Biz: Growing Native Economies
By Rob McDonald
| Published 11/1/2003
| Science & Technology , Business , Non Profits , Daniel Gibson , November/December , S'Klallam , Dogrib , Inupiaq , Colville , Kumeyaay , Zuni , Yaqui , Wintu , Sioux , Hochunk , Mashantucket Pequot , Potawatomi , Oneida , Caddo , Choctaw , Chippewa
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 Despite
the recent relative economic success of casino gambling on some Indian
reservations throughout America, Indian Country and Native individuals
generally remain low on the nation\'s economic ladder...
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1997 Winter
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Derrick Suwaima Davis (Hopi/Choctaw) is the current World Champion Hoop
Dancer, who has been featured in the promotion of the new United States
Postal Service stamp series honoring American Indian dance. He will
defend his title at the Heard Museum’s 7th annual World Championship
Hoop Dance Contest, Feb. 1-2, 1997.
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1996 Summer
By Site Editor
| Published 06/1/1996
| Textiles/Weaving , Basketry , 1996 , Wounaan , Diné , Comanche , Inca , Oglala , Maya , Tewa , Choctaw , Navajo
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“There I am!” Sophia Lovato proclaims proudly of her self-portrait, as
one of a group of Tewa children learning to express themselves through
their artwork.
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2005 May/June
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Niko DeRoin-Davidson (Otoe-Missouria/Choctaw) wears a traditional Otoe-style dress made of elk skin.
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2003 March/April
By Site Editor
| Published 03/1/2003
| 2003 , Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs , Pima , Diné , Coeur d'Alene , Agua Caliente Cahuilla Indians , Mashantucket Pequot , Tohono O'odham , Choctaw , Pueblo , Makah , Blackfeet , Navajo , US Travel
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A Photo Safari in Dinetah
The
Four Corners Region of the American Southwest is a photographer's
Mecca, as seen in this photo-snapping excursion in Monument Valley led
by noted Navajo artist LeRoy DeJolie. By Hilary Wallace. Photos by
LeRoy DeJolie Navajo.
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2003 July/August
By Site Editor
| Published 07/1/2003
| 2003 , Comanche , Tewa , Sioux , Salt River Pima-Maricopa , Iroquois , Hochunk , Choctaw , Chickasaw , Anishinaabe , Haida , Pueblo , Navajo , Apparel/Fashion
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Native
American fashion sheds its modest garments in favor of a dazzling
wardrobe of novel apparel, such as this dress in bias-cut silk by
Patricia Michaels (Taos Pueblo). It features Zuni Pueblo dragonfly
designs that illustrate how the insect brought rain to the Earth, with
the short top representing rain clouds and the tie the falling rain.
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2002 July/August
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Artist Ed Archie NoiseCat
They're talented, they're innovative, and they're in demand at Indian
market events nationwide. Glass, wood and metal artist Ed Archie
NoiseCat (Shuswap/Stlitlimx) is one of the market stars we profile in
"Five Market Artists." Cover photo by Wendy McEahern.
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2003 November/December
By Site Editor
| Published 11/1/2003
| Kiowa , Navajo , Athabascan , Chippewa , Choctaw , Inupiaq , Potawatomi , Wintu , Kumeyaay , Mashantucket Pequot , Gwich’in , 2003
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Pulitzer
Prizewinning author and artist N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa) cuts a wide
swath through American culture with his brilliantly conceived and
executed novels, poetry, plays and nonfiction works.
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2000 November/December
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Irene Bedard
From Anchorage, Alaska to New York City, the dramatic calling of Irene
Bedard has led this Inupiat Eskimo/Cree actor to roles in Lakota Woman, Naturally Native and Smoke Signals. With her theatrical and Native roots firmly established, the voice behind Pocahontas celebrates two new releases this year, The Lost Child and Wild Flowers. Bedard glimmers in a 14K gold, inlaid pendant and bracelet, courtesy of Ray Tracey Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Click on "Full Story" to view the complete Table of Contents.
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