The wood bark shelters and grinding stones at the American Indian village behind the Yosemite Museum represent to Julia Parker her awakening as a Native American. Parker, 84, is one of the country's ...

To be chosen for a National Heritage Fellowship is to be recognized as a kind of national treasure. The award is given by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and celebrates traditional and folk ...

BANNING – Nearly 500 participants and members from 30 different California Indian tribes came together Saturday for an annual basket weaving gathering held at the Morongo Community Center. The ...

GOLD HILL — Today, class, we have a lesson in making baskets. We will not be making just any old basket, but fine ash wood baskets using traditional methods of preparing the wooden “splints.” Many ...

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RENO, Nev. — In early June, the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony (RSIC) Tribal Historic Preservation Office/Cultural Resource Manager traveled to Auburn, Calif., to claim nine Native American baskets from ...

Before she died in December 1925, the Washoe Indian basket maker called Dat So La Lee insisted that she should be buried with one of her baskets. Authorities complied with her request. The Carson City ...

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SUITLAND, Md. — George Gustav Heye, a wealthy New Yorker born in 1874, was a compulsive collector of American Indian artifacts. He would visit Indian reservations and be anxious and irritable until he ...