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Indigenous beadwork flourishes on Instagram
A pair of earrings, beaded onto smoked hide, by the Cherokee artist Tayler Gutierrez. Photo: Tayler Gutierrez.
by Anna V. Smith
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- Last year, after the museum that Tayler Gutierrez worked at in Salt Lake City closed temporarily because of the coronavirus, she turned to her beadwork.
A citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, Gutierrez, 24, had been practicing beadwork for years after learning from a mentor, Diné poet Tacey Atsitty, and she already had a modest following on her Instagram page, where she posted her custom hat brims, earrings and leather pouches.
Image zoom Credit: Jamie Okuma
As the pandemic consumed the world in 2020, our buying power became an important tool within our communities. When restaurants struggled to get by without any stimulus or aid, we called on each other to order takeout so that they could stay afloat. When small businesses were at risk of closing permanently, we rallied around them and bought merchandise and contributed to GoFundMe campaigns.
It’s both a beautiful and profoundly tragic symptom of our modern-day capitalist society. Where the government could have been helping, our only hope was the generosity of one another. And while it may be hard to come to terms with, reclaiming control of this power has been a good thing, especially in the wake of social justice movements like Black Lives Matter.