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Pow Wow, Language Summit and Horse Relays 2016!
We just finished up with our Custer State Park annual Buffalo Roundup and it was another successful year for everyone involved. Thank you to the many folks who stopped in...
New Lakota Artist
Our Lakota artists and crafts people are always creating, going to shows and learning every year better ways to create art and keep their culture alive. It's sometimes hard for...
Arts - Beadwork & Quillwork
At Black Hills State University one of the classes I teach is Traditional Lakota Arts which includes learning basic techniques of beadwork, quillwork, and featherwork. If you are involved in...
Italian Glass Beads: Now Available!
Glass has been around for the millennia and can be found at some of the most ancient burial sites. There are some who believe the Egyptians invented glass but more...
Beading How To: Crow Stitch
Good Morning, everybody! Here we are in the Black Hills on this beautiful October day. I'm Michael from the Sioux Trading Post and I'm going to show you how to...
Where Did Our Italian Glass Bead Overstock Go?
Prairie Edge is pleased to announce we have just finalized a deal with Glenn and Lisa Vincent of Shipwreck Beads for a substantial portion of the Italian Glass Bead overstock...
Beading How To: Applique Stitch
In our final Beading How To for the month, Michael demonstrates the Applique Stitch and shares a few tips to make nice, consistent stitches, help mark your place (its amazingly...
Beading How To: Beadwork Basics
What's the best way to hold your leather as you bead? What's the easiest way to work with loose beads? How do you load your needle with hanked beads? Do...
Beading How To: Lazy Stitch
In great detail and in vivid color…Michael demonstrates the Lazy Stitch beadwork technique. Let's start here with the Lazy Stitch (I don't know how it got the name "Lazy" because...