Catherine Mowry – Miami

• Fort Wayne, Indiana
• Dolls | Drawings | Prints

Catherine is an enrolled member of the Miami Nation of Oklahoma. She graduated in 1979, from Indiana University with a Bachelors of Fine Arts. Catherine has attended many art markets including Red Earth Festival in Oklahoma City, The Indian Studies Museum in Washington, Connecticut, and of course Cahokia Mounds. Her work includes traditionally made corn husk dolls with all natural materials and two dimensional pieces in pencils, pastels, acrylics, conte crayon, guache, and chalk to bring out the nature and spirit of Native way of life.

Woody Richards – Lakota Sioux

• Bloomington, Indiana
• Cedar Boxes | Hide Paintings | Knives

Jon Tiger – Muscogee Creek

• Eufaula, Oklahoma
• Drawings | Paintings | Bookmarks

Patricia Baxter Shebola – Hopi/Zuni

• Lawrence, Kansas
• Pottery | Beadwork | Ornaments

Patricia is a graduate of Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas. Upon graduation from Haskell, Patricia did two tours of duty for the National Park Service. Her first detail was at Effigy Mounds National Monument in northeast Iowa, working with and maintaining the park’s collections. Patricia’s second detail was at the National Park Service Repository in Lincoln, Nebraska, working on repatriation and the vast collections from many National Parks from the Midwest to the Pacific. While in Lincoln, she studied for a degree in Museum Studies at the University of Nebraska. In 2012, Patricia returned to Haskell to teach a semester in Traditional Native American hand building.

Additionally, Patricia has attended Haystack Mountain School of Crafts on Deer Isle, Maine, for four clay studio sessions. Her clay work is a blending of her Hopi and Zuni pottery traditions. She incorporates a mixture of traditional and contemporary shapes and designs into her work, making raffia rings for each of her bowls. All of Patricia’s pieces are one-of-a-kind, made by hand – she does not use a slab roller or wheel to “throw” any of her clay work.

Patricia’s Facebook: Clay Badger Pottery

Niles Aseret – Navajo

• Murfreesboro, Tennessee
• Silver | Beadwork

Duane Prescott – Ho-Chunk

• Indianapolis, Indiana
• Vintage Jewelry

Emilio & Marguerite Chavez – Santo Domingo Pueblo

• Pena Blanca, New Mexico
• Shell Jewelry

Emilio Chavez was born and raised by family who taught him how to hand-make turquoise grinned necklaces and slab earrings, during his teenage years in Santo Domingo Pueblo in New Mexico. After high school, he always wanted to work with metal in his jewelry making and had to go back to school at The Institute of Indian Arts Collage in Santa Fe, NM. He later met his wife Marguerite and collaborated their jewelry. They both travel extensively throughout the country to show their art at most Native American art shows and museums. For over 20 years they still enjoy working together.

Stephan & Robbie White – Pawnee

• Muskogee, Oklahoma
• Silver & Turquoise Jewelry

This brother-duo crafts beautiful handmade Sterling Silver and Turquoise jewelry with other semi precious gems, shell, and Native Beadwork.

Paul-Rene Tamburro- Nulhegan Abenaki & Andrea Tamburro – Piqua Shawnee

• Anderson State, Indiana
• Metal, Stone, Beaded Jewelry | Porcupine Quillwork

Dr. Paul-Rene (Nulhegan Abenaki) is an Indigenous educator and artist. Dr. Andrea Tamburro (Piqua Shawnee) assists through her education, works with the arrangement and display, and adds beadwork and embroidery art. Paul-Rene did a four-year apprenticeship in silver and copper chasing and repousse. His art is inspired by his ancestors and his many years spent with artists and crafts people across the US and Canada.

Jimmy Yawakia – Zuni

• Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico
• Fetishes

Nelson Garcia

• Phoenix, Arizona
• Silversmith

Michael Frerichs – Northern Arapahoe

• Aurora, Missouri
• Flutes | Dreamcatchers | Beadwork

Lisa Rutherford – Cherokee

• Albuquerque, New Mexico
• Pottery | Textiles

Lisa Rutherford (Cherokee Nation) is a full-time artist specializing in pottery and textiles. Rutherford began making ancestral pottery in 2005. She then started researching and making historic clothing including feather capes and mantles, twined textiles and 18th century Cherokee clothing.

She is a 1986 graduate of Northeastern State University (Oklahoma) and in 2009, participated in the Oklahoma Arts Council’s Leadership Arts Program. In 2014, Rutherford was selected for the Art Leadership Program at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, studying twined textiles, historic clothing, beadwork, and feather capes. In 2018, she was named a Cherokee National Treasure by the Cherokee Nation for her work in preserving and promoting Cherokee pottery and culture.

Lisa has won numerous awards and her work is in several museum collections including the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art, the Fred Jones Jr. Museum at Oklahoma University, the McClung Museum at University of Tennessee, and the Cherokee National History Museum in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.

Antonio Grant – Eastern Band Cherokee

• Cherokee, North Carolina
• Sterling/Gemstone Jewelry | Cultural Items

William Harjo – Creek

• Livingston, Texas
• Flutes | Beadwork

Keith Yazzie Jay – Navajo

• Montezuma Creek, Utah
• Pottery | Metalwork

Keith grew up in the four-corner area of the Navajo Nation. As early as high school, Keith was developing his talents and skills as a sculptor. While working at a pottery shop, his hand and finger coordination developed to the point where he could work with an “exacto knife.” He started creating pottery pieces with Navajo-life scenes and wildlife. By the mid-1990s, Keith had developed his own style of etched two-tone pottery where he would carefully layer each colored pottery piece to a certain thickness, allowing him to carve designs and wildlife.

Keith has won numerous awards in art shows across the United States, including Cahokia Mounds. Keith is proud to share his expertise and knowledge of traditional Navajo designs when creating this pottery.

Mel Cornshucker – Cherokee

• Tulsa, Oklahoma
• Pottery

Mel is an award winning potter. He creates functional and aesthetic pottery using stoneware and porcelain clay. These unique pieces are high-fired and uses glazes and designs formulated and created by the artist. After a ceramics course at Southwest Baptist University in Boilvar, Missouri, Mel’s interest and talents for this art form bloomed. He became apprentice and then head potter at Silver Dollar City before going out on his own in 1977. Mel has continued developing and producing practical, yet beautiful pieces of art ever since.

Kimberly Bugg – Oneida

• Hornbeak, Tennessee
• Woodwork | Beadwork | Leatherwork

Kimberly (Kim) Greene-Bugg is a member of the Oneida Tribe of the Six Nations of the Grand River Reserve in Ontario, Canada. She currently resides in the West Tennessee town of Hornbeak. Kim has traveled to numerous PowWows across the United States and Canada with her family. She became an award-winning Woman Buckskin Dancer- Southern Style as well as an accomplished artist. There she learned the heritage, culture, and artistry of the native people of the Northern and Southern Plains. This exposure to the wats of the Plains People, along with Kim’s Iroquois heritage, giver her creations a unique artistic expression. In her work you will find a blend of the traditional and contemporary. Kim’s creations can be custom ordered by contacting Kim at indiantrailtradingpost@gmail.com

Lara Cate` – Santo Domingo

• Santo Domingo Pueblo, New Mexico
• Turquoise Jewelry | Earrings

Timothy Nevaquaya – Comanche

• Tulsa, Oklahoma
• Paintings | Prints | Flutes

Timothy Nevaquaya is an award winning and Emmy nominated Comanche and Chickasaw/Choctaw artist. Timothy’s style is vibrant and unquietly his, which is something he has been working on since 2007. The last time Timothy participated in one of our markets was 2019, we are excited to welcome him back.

Timothy’s Facebook: Timothy Tate Nevaquaya: Nevaquaya Fine Arts 

Timothy’s Website: Nevaquaya Fine Arts

Don Nieto – Santo Domingo Pueblo

• Lawrence, Kansas
• Sterling, Stone, & Shell Jewelry

Don is a traditional artist from Santo Domingo Pueblo, New Mexico. He learned the art of silversmithing from his mother at an early age. His inspirations to produce traditional jewelry is a reflection of his mother’s teaching. Don’s jewelry includes pendants, bracelets, rings, and earrings. Don’s work has won awards at the Oklahoma City Red Earth Juried Art Show and the University of Kansas Lawrence Art Show. He is also the President of the Kansas Sculptors Association.

Don’s Website: Nieto Jewelry & Stone