Tom Sharpe On the second Friday of every month, two very different groups of people, most of them New Mexicans, get together at a school on the Navajo reservation for one of the state's most unique ...

For the first time since 2019, the Adopt-a-Native-Elder Navajo Rug Show & Sale will return in person to Deer Valley Resort Nov. 7–9.

Mona Laughing, a third-generation Navajo artist and award-winning master weaver from Crystal, New Mexico, was this year’s ...

The Yokuts tribeswomen of central California were avid gamblers. Their favorite game was played with eight walnut-shell dice thrown on a decorated mat woven from reeds like a basket. Taking a year to ...

Times of San Diego will send you the top local and state news at 8 a.m., 365 days a year, plus alert you to major breaking news. An exhibit opening Saturday at the Mingei International Museum explores ...

In 1932, Julia Joe approached the handmade loom her husband, Sam, fashioned of metal pipe. In that moment, with her daughters at her feet, she began weaving history. The world’s largest Navajo rug, ...

This undated photo provided by Sotheby’s New York shows a Navajo man's wearing blanket from the collection of Andy Williams. The late American crooner had a passion for Navajo blankets, assembling a ...

Rebecca Valette’s Clitso Dedman, Navajo Carver is the first biography of artist Clitso Dedman (1876–1953), one of the most important but overlooked Diné (Navajo) artists of his generation. Dedman was ...

Basket-weaving is one of the oldest known Native American traditions and many baskets from the American Southwest date from as early as 6,000 years ago. Originally made for utilitarian functions, such ...

Woven history: During a recent visit to the National Gallery of Art, computer historian Ken Shirriff stumbled across a Navajo weaving with a strangely familiar pattern. Upon closer inspection, he ...