A new course created by Schulich Law Assistant Professor Cheryl Simon is giving students an opportunity to explore Indigenous law through hands-on engagement with Indigenous material culture. Simon is ...

DETROIT — Walking into the Detroit Institute of Arts on the opening day of the Anishinaabe art exhibition was surreal for one local artist. “From where I grew up — the poor Native girl in Indian Town ...

Generally overlooked in Art History 101 was the inverse: how European materials and images were repurposed by Indigenous artists. That 1941 MoMA show was full of ancient Native objects, along with ...

Long before European colonial settlers introduced the trade in glass beads to North America, porcupine quills were the medium Native artists across the continent used to adorn baskets and clothing.

From left to right: The old Municipality of Anchorage logo and the new one. Anchorage has a brand new municipal seal after Assembly members voted to approve the design during a meeting Tuesday night.

An effort to decide whether to change the Municipality of Anchorage’s official seal has been marred by technical manipulation and misinformation, city leaders say. Anchorage officials put out a web ...

As the Municipality of Anchorage nears the end of its 50th anniversary year, city leaders hope to incorporate the traditional quillwork designs of the Dena’ina people into its long-standing municipal ...

A single photograph started it all. Taken in the late 1800s, the image shows a group from the Prairie Island Dakota community in full regalia: aprons, beadwork, necklaces and headdresses. It’s part of ...

Browse the wares of traditional and contemporary Indigenous makers at the Native Art Market. Dakota Mace and Paige Skenandore — who co-founded the event in 2023 — have assembled 40 makers at Madison’s ...

Walk into Dakota Drum Company in downtown Rapid City, South Dakota, and you won't be greeted by the usual hum of retail chatter. Instead, you might hear the rhythmic scrape of a buffalo hide stretched ...

A survey at the Walker Art Center celebrates the interdisciplinary artist Dyani White Hawk, whose works are grounded in the Lakota philosophy of connectedness. The artist Dyani White Hawk, in her ...

In many a school auditorium, a theater kid could be spotted sitting cross-legged with a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, surrounded by peers who had just belted their way through the entire Hamilton ...