November is Native American Heritage Month, and with mass-produced knockoffs on the rise, experts say it's more important ...

Jeweler Krishna Choudhary pulls out a box from his safe and then slowly opens the velvet case to reveal a mesmerizing 150-carat sky-blue star sapphire. The stone fits snuggly in the palm of my hand, ...

Fake Native American-styled jewelry seized by federal officials during a 2015 investigation in New Mexico. (Yahoo News photo illustration; photos: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP, Eddie ...

Van Gelder Indian Jewelry is one of those businesses that at first glance defy logic. The Dutch family-owned firm specializes in museum quality heritage jewels from India, painstaking acquired through ...

It may come as a shock for some, but the old dictum “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend,” made famous by Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, may no longer prove universally true. A testament to ...

It’s the antidote to what Siegel, a collector of Native American art and jewelry for more than 40 years, encountered when he and his wife moved to Santa Fe full-time in 2017. “We saw the way historic ...

The case could be a watershed moment in a long-overdue crackdown on fake Native American art. A piece of jewelry advertised on the Facebook page for Al Zuni Global Jewelry Wholesale, which stands ...

Upon entering the warmly-lit space housing the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian’s new exhibit, “Stunning Stories in Native American Jewelry,” attention is first drawn to the subtle gleam of a ...