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PEOPLE: Mary G. Ross blazed a trail in the sky as a woman engineer in the...
When she was 96 years old, Mary Golda Ross asked her niece to make her something very special: the first traditional Cherokee dress that Ross, the great-great-granddaughter of renowned Chief John Ross,...
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ARTS: Jungen’s farfetched animals stretch the imagination
Washington—Artist Brian Jungen’s oversized animals have invaded the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian for the exhibition “Strange Comfort,” which runs through Aug. 8. By Mathieu...
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ART: One man’s interest helps save ancient art
Dennis White, 63, an Ojibwe mathematics scholar from the Lac Courte Oreilles reservation in Northern Wisconsin, is credited with helping to revive interest in finger weaving, a 4,000-year-old art among...
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EXHIBITION: Quileute separate fact from fiction for ‘Twilight’ fans
Seattle, Wash.—The Seattle Art Museum opened an exhibition of some of the oldest-known objects from the Quileute Nation, including more than a dozen items that have never been displayed from the...
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CULTURE: Children step up as culture-bearers
Washington, D.C.—Kelly Church, a weaver of black ash baskets, is working against time to teach the children of her tribe, the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa, about the imperiled tree. Courtesy of the...
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CULTURE: Through art, dance, language, Boxleys breathe new life into...
Kingston, Wash.—David Boxley is putting designs in red paint on a bentwood box, while his older son, David Robert Boxley, carves alder wood into a beaver face for a helmet commissioned by a Native...
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