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The Art of Native Fashion at Santa Fe Indian Market

Every August, thousands of visitors arrive in Santa Fe for the annual Santa Fe Indian Market, produced by the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts (SWAIA), the largest juried Indian art market in...

K.D. Lang Doesn’t Have to Indulge Your Constant Cravings (Published 2018)

Twenty-five years ago the idea that an openly gay and very butch woman could become a pop idol was seismic. Now she can just make her music.

Scott Benesiinaabandan wants you to feel the sound of the Anishinaabe language | CBC Arts

Would you recognize Anishinaabe if you overheard it being spoken on the bus?

Update on archaeology in a drained Louisiana lake - First American Art Magazine

When Vernon Lake was temporarily drained, archaeologists conducted a surface exploration, trying to beat time and looters.

Toronto is getting its first Indigenous Fashion Week

This spring, 23 artists and designers from Nunavut to Greenland will be showcasing the most progressive Indigenous-made fashion, craft and textiles i…

Remembering James Luna (1950–2018)

Luna’s Artifact Piece—where he turned his Indigenous body into a museum exhibit—was a 1980s breakthrough. But the power of his work doesn't end there.

Noted Indigenous performance artist James Luna walks on - First American Art Magazine

The man who has been called "one of the most dangerous Indians alive" has walked on. James Luna died on March 4, 2018, at University Hospital in New Orleans, where he was attending a residency at the...

Q&A: Wes Studi has been shattering Native American stereotypes for years. It's time for Hollywood...

Re-Naming a New World

It’s not enough to say to Indigenous people, “Let me add some signs in your language to my art institution.” A re-naming is required, and Jason Baerg offers it

Artists Win Governor General’s Awards

Seven Canadian artists—and one curator—are each $25,000 richer today thanks to the 2018 Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts

Trudeau sends Valentine cards to all 1.4-million Indigenous people

Every one of the 1.4-million Indigenous people in the country woke up to find a Valentine’s Day card from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday. The cards, which appear to be personally …

Looking at Indians, white Americans see themselves

Thinking about natives in an era of nativism

FAS Hires First Professor of Native American History

FAS Hires First Professor of Native American History