As Tyanne Peebles carefully weaves together strips from a black ash tree to make a basket, she knows it has to be made with love. “As you weave, you put yourself into the basket,” she said. “It has to ...

For 25 years, Stephanie Craig has been practicing traditional Indigenous basket weaving, fighting carpal tunnel and arthritis in her hands, in order to keep the tradition alive. Craig, a member of the ...

INDIANOLA — To Ed Carriere, his craft is about more than weaving baskets. It's about the ancestors' life stories from the past hundreds of generations at the shoreline of the Salish Sea that could be ...

Outsiders may see baskets as quickly produced souvenirs, but to the weavers, baskets are useful tools, family treasures and an expression of tribal love for the land and all it provides. Native ...

John Paul Darden, a member of the Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana in St. Mary Parish, prepares a stalk of river cane for basket-making. Specialists with the Plant Materials Center in Golden Meadow are ...

OSHKOSH, Wis. (WBAY) - On Saturday, the Paine Art Center and Gardens presented the tradition of Native basketmaking in Wisconsin with a new exhibition, Weaving a Legacy: Ho-Chunk Black Ash Basketry.