For millennia turquoise has been the choice for indigenous Southwestern jewelers, and others.

Fake turquoise jewelry is hurting Native Americans economically Fraudulent Native American goods have been illegal since 1935. The first prison sentence for this crime was just handed down.

Turquoise is one of December’s birthstones — the other December birthstone is tanzanite — and today’s designers are taking the robin’s-egg blue stone out of the southwest and into ...

To explore how Indigenous turquoise crafts and trade evolved, visit Santa Fe’s Wheelright Museum of the American Indian, with its outsize gallery of Southwestern jewelry.

It’s that age-old question: why choose a turquoise bib when you could a diamond necklace? Eva Mendes, Rachel Zoe, and the Van Cleef archive hold the answers. In the annals of red-carpet jewelry ...

She discovered a rich Native American culture that would inspire her to become a passionate champion for indigenous rights and a prolific collector of Navajo, Zuni, and Hopi jewelry.

26-year-old Casey Sohoel-Smith, a turquoise silversmith is bringing more Southwestern and Native American silver and turquoise jewelry to the Eastside.

The lack of a grading system for the popular stone has prompted a father-son team to spend the last five years working on one.

Tests on her hair revealed she might have visited states in the Southwest in the months before her death, raising interesting possibilities of how she may have obtained her turquoise jewelry.

For this study, Thibodeau analyzed turquoise samples gathered from Aztec and Mixtec cultures from the period right before Spanish contact and compared it to deposits in the Southwest.