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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Two generations later, the dreams of Pequot elder and matriarch Elizabeth George (right) have come true. The $196 million Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, the largest of its kind in the nation, promises to become an important source of information about Native peoples. George’s granddaughter, Theresa Hayward Bell (center) is the institution’s executive director.

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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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Rulan Tangen (Metis) is one of the stable of high-energy, talented and ambitious young Native contemporary dancers taking the world’s stages by storm. Fashions by Marama—Kingi Davis and Tracey Lloydd (Ngapuhi Tribe, Aotearoa). Photo by Richard Bluecloud Castaneda Salt River Pima.

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Northwest Meets Southwest
Southwestern Native artists travel to the Pacific Northwest homelands of the Haida people, and a group of Haida artists travels to the Southwest, to trade new methods of creating art, forging bonds of friendship and discovering their common natures.

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