By America Meredith I DON’T THINK Cherokees had much of a beading tradition,” I blurted out to my sister at the 2005 opening of the Oklahoma History Center’s Native American gallery. The museum curator…
From FAAM No. 0, Spring 2013: 52–53. Before Common Era 2500–1000 BCE: Independence I people from Canada settle in north Greenland 2500–800 BCE: Saqqaq people from Siberia settle in southeast and west Greenland…
“Designed to Last: Striving toward an Indigenous American Aesthetic” The International Journal of the Arts in Society. Volume 4, Number 2 (2009): 373–86. heather ahtone (Choctaw/Chickasaw) When I first got my hands on…
Versatile is the word for Maria Panínguak’ Kjærulff’s art practice. This Danish-Inuit artist played a nurse in the first feature length film produced in Greenland and acted in a daytime TV soap opera.…
By Roy Boney Jr. (Cherokee Nation) The importance of typography in a literate society can sometimes be overlooked, particularly when bombarded by text in various formats from road signs, dinner menus, Facebook statuses,…
First American Art Magazine’s Top 10 Native Art Events of 2014 For Native American art, 2014 has been a bustling, productive year, with groundbreaking art shows, tribes encouraging and promoting their artists, publications…