Jewelry in Native America

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Native American jewelry is the non-public adornment, frequently within the types of necklaces, jewelry, bracelets, rings, pins, brooches, labrets, and more, made by means of the Indigenous peoples of America. Native American jewelry displays the cultural variety and history of its makers. Native American tribes retain to expand distinct aesthetics rooted of their private creative visions and cultural traditions. Artists create jewelry for adornment, ceremonies, and exchange. Lois Sherr Dubin writes, "in the absence of written languages, adornment became an crucial element of Indian  communication, conveying many ranges of information." Later, jewelry and personal adornment ". Signaled resistance to assimilation. It stays a primary assertion of tribal and person identity."

Within the Haida Nation of the Pacific Northwest, copper was used as a form of jewelry for creating bracelets.

Metalsmiths, beaders, carvers, and lapidaries combine a diffusion of metals, hardwoods, precious and semi-precious gems, beadwork, quillwork, tooth, bones, disguise, vegetal fibres, and other substances to create jewelry. Contemporary Native American jewelry tiers from hand-quarried and processed stones and shells to computer-fabricated metal and titanium jewelry.