Beth Piatote with Sharma Shields - The Beadworkers

Told with humor, subtlety, and beautiful spareness, the mixed-genre works of Beth Piatote‘s first collection find unifying themes in the strength of kinship, the pulse of longing, and the language of return.

Formally inventive, witty, and generous, The Beadworkers—a singular debut collection—draws on Indigenous aesthetics and forms to offer a powerful, sustaining vision of Native life in the Americas.