Today, as an adjunct faculty member and doctoral student at Washington State University, she’s come a long way from those ...

Dentalium shells, smooth tusk-like mollusks from the Pacific, were highly prized by Native American tribes for generations.

The Sioux Trading Post, a cultural landmark in Rapid City, South Dakota, since 1957, has been on the frontlines of a major resurgence in dentalium sales since around 2016, when the Dakota Access ...

Dentalium — the delicate white shells treasured by Indigenous people in the U.S. and Canada — is virtually unknown across ...

I began working with dentalium about 12 years ago when a late friend who passed away gifted me some shells. Then I tried to ...

For generations, Native Americans prized dentalium or tusk shells as currency, status symbols and sacred objects. Harvested in the Pacific, they were traded thousands of miles inland, held real value ...

In a powerful step toward cultural revitalization, the San Manuel Tribe reclaims its ancestral name, Yuhaaviatam, honoring its deep connection to the land and heritage ...