The Quechan Tribe — and Arizona — lost one of its cultural treasures when bead artist and Quechan language teacher Daisy Golding Simms died March 1 in Winterhaven, California, near Yuma. She was 88.

Christina House / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images At last year’s Academy Awards, Lily Gladstone became the first Native American to ... a chevron-patterned beaded fringe.

Meanwhile, the Native American Rights Fund and the American Civil Liberties Union recently issued guidance to tribal leaders and communities recommending among other things that people know their ...