Xoodzí is an Alaska Native-owned art and jewelry page run by Sienna Reid (Tlingit of the Kiks.ádi clan). Sienna started making earrings with hand-crafted devils club beads over the summer and decided to start selling and trading them. Now she makes a variety of jewelry and art inspired by her homelands and culture. Give her a follow on Instagram!
Autumn Shotridge, Yaandakin Yeil (Tlingit), creates unique beaded seal fur jewelry and accessories such as handbags, purses, wallets, headbands, hats, pop sockets, and more. Though she currently resides in Washington State, Autumn was born in Ketchikan. She developed her love of beading at a young age by learning from her grandmother, Esther Sea, the matriarch of the Teikweidee clan.
Handcrafted in the middle of the Tongass National Forest, Sagebrush Dry Gear knows the importance of staying dry in the wilderness. No matter your sport, their products will keep your gear dry with the highest quality, lightest weight, fully submersible bags in the industry.
Look Beadwork is excited to share her beading/fur sewing addiction with you! She was born in Juneau, Alaska and spent my formative years in the quiet communities of Yakutat and King Salmon.
Her parents taught her to appreciate and utilize what the landscape had to share with them. Her mom strapped me to her back when she was a baby and carried her along on her trap lines. Her father took them fishing for silver salmon (coho-L'ook in Tlingit) every August.
Welcome to Ljay’s where you will find unique variety of handmade products made in Alaska. She has been in the boutique business for over five years. Each piece of her collection offers you not just jewelry, but a canvas to express her unique style and individuality. Her mission is to offer a selection of essential wardrobe staples for those looking to create a minimalist fashion forward style for any and every occasion.
Xóotsk’ Amiah Johnson is a Tlingit, Koyukon, Athabascan and Filipina artist from Yakutat currently residing on traditional Dena’ina land in Anchorage. She is inspired by the traditional designs of her ancestors and land where they came from. She was taught to sew and beads by her mother and maternal grandmother and has been running her business and going to school full time for the last three years.
Beaded Earrings by Kéet Creations featuring Afro-Indigenous Contemporary Designs.
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Kanat’á Xoo is Indigiqueer owned and operated, selling formline stickers and beaded earrings.
They created a platform for other partnering Indigenous artists to sell their work. The goal is to build a collective of Indigenous artists from around the country.
Drawing inspiration from her rich cultural heritage as an Alaskan Native Tlingit Athabascan artist, the owner creates unique and meaningful pieces that reflect the beauty and spirit of my ancestry and Native Alaskan lifestyle.
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Liane Crosta and her husband, Chris, create salmon leather jewelry and accessories using salmon byproducts, as well as halibut, rockfish, and seaglass and shells gathered from beaches in Alaska. Lifelong Alaskans, they were both taught from an early age how to catch, clean, smoke, cure, and jar wild salmon.
Eva Rowan, sx̱een (Tlingit and Pueblo), is currently working on a project that involves beading earrings inspired by album art from Native music artists. She said that she sees this as an opportunity to “promote other Native artists’ craft while creating her own.” Eva, who is from Klawock, said that her work is driven by her love of making regalia for loved ones.
Deisheetaan Designs is owned by Kylie Kyalxtin Kookesh (Tlingit). She creates mostly jewelry but recently started to bead ornaments, keychains, and headbands. Kylie said she decided to learn how to bead after seeing other passengers crafting their beadwork while traveling to Thorne Bay via ferry for volleyball practices. “I told myself I need to learn how to b
