In Vogue’s summer 2026 issue, Deb Haaland, a member of the state’s Laguna Pueblo tribe and a former United States secretary of the interior who’s running to be governor of New Mexico, wears titanium star earrings by the Laguna and Chiricahua Apache artist Pat Pruitt, a regular at the market for almost two decades. The earrings represent more than just statement jewelry: Pruitt describes his designs as “markers of navigation, protection, and ancestral presence.”
Also embedded with meaning (and often seen at Indian Market), meanwhile, are the shoulder-sweeping earrings made from tiered dentalium shells by the artist Jamie Okuma, a Luiseño, Shoshone-Bannock, Wailaki, and Okinawan artist living among California’s La Jolla Band of Mission Indians.
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