Jessica Gokey of Inver Grove Heights, Minn., is seen in this undated photo. The Ojibwe artist “paints” images of flora and fauna sewing two tiny Czech seed beads at a time onto wool fabric. Her piece ...

Centuries before Europeans arrived with glass trading beads, Native people who lived in what is now Minnesota were making beads from stone, shells, teeth and bone. Dakota and Ojibwe women used these ...

Naomi LaFave curiously toddled over to the canoe on the floor and her mom, Amelia LeGarde, settled into the canoe with the 1-year-old. A photo of wild rice behind them, LeGarde rocked the canoe back ...

WHITE EARTH, Minn. — Fifteen blue. Three black. Three maroon. Fifteen blue. Three black. Three maroon. “Don’t mess up,” the perfectionist inside me warned, as the colored pattern ran like a rhythm ...

Learn Ojibwe teachings, narratives and traditions with artist and instructor Jennie Town. Share with someone you love! Learn traditional beading techniques to create your own heart pendant.

They are images that span years of photographic history, from daguerreotypes produced on metal plates to family snapshots created from plastic negatives. Babies swaddled and laced on cradleboards, ...

When you think of Indigenous beadwork, eyebrows probably aren't the first thing that come to mind. But it's something Chelsey Moon, an Ojibway YouTuber from Bay Mills Indian community in northern ...

LEECH LAKE RESERVATION, Minn.—When you’re an artist working in porcupine quills, pain comes with the palette. The quills—needle-like animal hair— are sharp and barbed. “When they go in,” says Mel Losh ...