Rose Fisher Greer and her daughter are two people keeping the basket weaving tradition alive, WWNO reported. They are part of the Jena Band of Choctaw Indians in Louisiana, and Greer learned the ...

(April 17, 2024) When she was 15, Greer took a class on basket weaving from a man ... Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma. The Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana started growing its own ...

The Jena Band of Choctaw Indians actively ... including basket weaving. Located in Allen and Jefferson Davis Parishes, the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana is known for their Koasati language ...

If you live in Louisiana, there are plenty of festivals to attend even in fall, from a Tunica-Biloxi basket weaving summit to Dia de los Muertos and, of course, Halloween. But first, how do you ...

Now Native peoples across the country are revitalizing basketry traditions and the country looks to California as a leader in basket weaving revitalization.

But the indigenous people started adopting metal and ceramic containers, which were easier to get, and the weaving was put up for sale. So once they couldn't identify a basket as authentic because ...

It opens up a bridge linking the past to the present and future with an array of family photos and texts honoring the elders who taught Craig the Kalapuya tradition of basket weaving and the new ...

Rose Fisher Greer, one of the only basket weavers left in the Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, holds a piece of river cane in Louisiana’s Kisatchie National Forest ...