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Beaded medallions are come in all shapes, sizes and colors. Designs include traditional tribal symbols and clan emblems. They’ve branched out to include school colors, sports mascots and even cartoon characters. In this program we celebrate Native America’s favorite beaded ware and try to track down the origins of the craft.
Guests:
Lis Jackson (Navajo, Kiowa, Comanche, Mexican and Irish) – beader
Tahnee Ahtone Harjo Growing Thunder – (Kiowa and Muskogee Creek) – curator of American Indian and textiles collections at the Oklahoma History Center
Nina Sanders (Apsàalooke) – curator for the Ralph T. Coe Center in Santa Fe and writer for Heard Museum
Chase Manhattan (enrolled in the Muskogee Creek tribe, Oglala Lakota, Leech Lake Anishinaabe) – Minnesota’s chief of hip-hop
Break Music: They Will Know (song) Audio Pharmacy (artist) State of the Heart (album)
