I had beaded moccasins before I could walk ... that stretches through generations of Native women — a legacy that includes her own grandmother, an award-winning beadworker, who never called ...

"Then we graduated to sewing moccasins or mukluks." Now, the Teslin Tlingit First Nation woman is taking beading to a whole new level by turning photographed family moments into beaded art.

who contributed beaded vamps that ... who include university students, women with careers, wives, sisters and mothers. "The vamps are intentionally not sewn into moccasins, because each pair ...