Los Angeles-based designer Bethany Yellowtail, 28, is out to flip the script by creating clothing that expertly weaves together a traditional Native American ... that bear patterns and motifs ...

Headdresses and knock-off Native American patterns on runways are controversial ... “I simply want to carve out a space where an authentic voice and an authentic representation of Native America ...

Instead of just reacting to controversies, Metcalfe and her cohorts want to promote authentic ... of a pattern or design. “These are not your stereotypical Native American designs.

Many of these power brokers tried to preserve what they perceived as Native American traditional arts by sheltering ... but they're using materials and patterns from another, this gets all mixed ...

They showed off creations that juxtaposed modernity and traditional ... or designs like weaving patterns in our fabric?" One of the largest gatherings of Native American fashion, more than 17 ...

Zimmerman says anything that uses generic or romanticized Native imagery is probably not authentic. Well, for one thing, I think that American Indian artists aren't getting credited for their work.

With the series “Studies in Cultural Appropriation,” Jones embellishes traditional Native American beading, fabrics and patterns under a tailor’s cutout of a white man wearing a suit.

But while studying at Dartmouth College, she took classes that interested her, particularly studio art and Native American Studies. “That’s where my heart was—and still is,” Tsouhlarakis says. Math ...