NativeCrafts.us offers Native American–inspired crafts, traditional craft supplies, jewelry, and one-of-a-kind handmade items. Many of the pieces we create and curate are rooted in long-standing design traditions, natural materials, and symbolic forms that continue to carry meaning today.
For many years, we traveled throughout the United States selling handmade crafts at Native American powwows, festivals, and juried art shows. Those experiences shaped not only the work itself, but our understanding of how deeply art, story, and community are connected. We have sold online since 1998, long before handmade work found a home on large platforms.
In addition to this shop, we maintain AAA Native Arts, an educational website with more than 4,000 articles exploring Native American tribes, history, culture, and symbolism. That work reflects a long-standing commitment to learning, documentation, and respect for the complexity of Indigenous histories.
While not a tribal member, I am of Chickasaw, Cherokee, English, and German descent. My family history includes Chickasaw Chief George Colbert, also known as Tootemastubbe, my fourth great-grandfather. He was three-quarters Chickasaw and one-quarter Scottish, descended from Colbert ancestors who migrated from Europe to Virginia in the early 1600s.
George Colbert played a significant role in Chickasaw history, participating in numerous negotiations between the Chickasaw Nation and the United States government. He married two sisters of the Cherokee Wind Clan, Saleechie Doublehead and Tuskiahooto Doublehead, daughters of Chief Doublehead. Saleechie Doublehead is my fourth great-grandmother.
Chief Doublehead was a Chickamauga Cherokee leader who signed a treaty ceding Cherokee lands to the United States without the consent of the majority of the Cherokee people—an act that contributed to the forced removal known as the Trail of Tears. He was later assassinated by his own people for this betrayal. George Colbert died along the Chickasaw Trail of Tears at Fort Towson, Oklahoma, shortly before reaching Indian Territory.
This history is not presented as a claim of authority, but as context. It informs a lifelong engagement with Native American art, symbolism, and material culture—an engagement grounded in study, lived experience, and respect for traditions that are not static, but living.
The work offered here is created and shared with care, humility, and an understanding that stories matter—especially the ones that are difficult to tell.
We believe transparency matters. For a clear, plain-spoken overview of our ownership status, boundaries, and how we describe inspired work, please read What We Are — and What We Are Not.
