Mikailah Thompson is an Indigenous beadwork artist based in Washington, D.C. When she was 10 years old, Thompson moved to the Nimiipuu reservation in North-Central Idaho where she lived with her ...

Every day when Mercedes Handel, 18, came home from high school, she spent hours on end creating beadwork at her bedroom desk in Watson Lake, Yukon. Signs of her passion are everywhere in the space — ...