To explore how Indigenous turquoise crafts and trade evolved, visit Santa Fe’s Wheelright Museum of the American Indian, with its outsize gallery of Southwestern jewelry.

Fake turquoise jewelry is hurting Native Americans economically. Fraudulent Native American goods have been illegal since 1935. The first prison sentence for this crime was just handed down.

There are some 20 mines throughout the American Southwest that supply gem-quality turquoise, the majority of them are in Nevada, but others are in Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico.

Jewelry made of blue turquoise, red coral, black jet and silver has long been associated with the Native Americans of the Southwest, where these colors are sacred. Ray Tracey, a Navajo jewelry desi… ...

Turquoise in the Southwest. Season 11 Episode 1105 | 26m 46s Video has Closed Captions | CC. For millennia turquoise has been the choice for indigenous Southwestern jewelers, and others.

Mikayla Mace Jun 24, 2018 Jun 24, 2018 Updated Aug 8, 2018 When you look at turquoise, the blue-green mineral usually embedded with crawling black metallic veins and sparkling pyrite, you probably ...

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TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — 26-year-old Casey Sohoel-Smith, a turquoise silversmith is bringing more Southwestern and Native American silver and turquoise jewelry to the Eastside.

“Not many people know about turquoise,” he said in a phone interview from Flagstaff, Ariz., where he was on one of his twice-yearly visits to the American Southwest.