{"id":2126,"date":"2009-11-06T13:33:22","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T20:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/11\/stealing-from-american-indians\/"},"modified":"2009-11-06T13:38:59","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T20:38:59","slug":"stealing-from-american-indians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/06\/stealing-from-american-indians\/","title":{"rendered":"Stealing from American Indians"},"content":{"rendered":"

from Art Market Monitor<\/em><\/a> nee <\/em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Stealing from American Indians<\/h1>\n

by Marion Maneker<\/p>\n

In art, they say that talent borrows and genius steals. Either way, American Indian artisans are getting pushed out of their own market, according to the\u00a0Wall Street Journal<\/a>. The numbers of imported knockoffs of American Indian designs are simply staggering and heartbreaking, since much of the imported work is intentionally passed off as the real thing:<\/p>\n

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The authentic Indian-made earrings are on the right.<\/p>\n

The Indian Arts and Crafts Association, a trade group, estimates that nationally, as much as 75% of the roughly $1 billion of jewelry, pottery, rugs and other merchandise sold every year as authentic is not. <\/em><\/p>\n

In the jewelry business, as many as 90% of pieces held out as examples of Native American craftsmanship are fake, according to the New Mexico attorney general\u2019s consumer-protection division, which is trying to police the trade along with federal authorities.<\/em><\/p>\n

But it is extremely hard to tell the genuine goods from the faux artifacts, artists and experts say.<\/em><\/p>\n

[ click to continue reading at Art Market Monitor<\/a> or WSJ<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from Art Market Monitor nee The Wall Street Journal Stealing from American Indians by Marion Maneker In art, they say that talent borrows and genius steals. Either way, American Indian artisans are getting pushed out of their own market, according to the\u00a0Wall Street Journal. The numbers of imported knockoffs of American Indian designs are simply […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}