Lewis Anthony Rath had pleaded guilty to selling fake San Carlos Apache art at Seattle retail stores

The fair's Focus section, curated this year by Candice Hopkins, includes strong representation of Native American and First Nations artists

He even hired Alaska Natives as clerks in his stores as part of the ruse, and will serve the longest sentence on record for violating the Indian Arts and Crafts Act

The lawsuit comes amid a crackdown on sales of fake Native American artefacts

A show on the early days of the Institute of American Indian Arts explores the fusing of Native American ancestral aesthetics with mainstream Modernist movements

The Seattle-based artist had pleaded guilty to violating the federal Indian Arts and Crafts Act

We explore the Tate Modern exhibition. Plus, the Whitney's Jaune Quick-to-See Smith retrospective and a reconstructed Roman gateway in England

Preston Jay Spotted Eagle has been sentenced to five years probation on charges of stealing government property from his former employer, the Museum of the Plains Indian on the Blackfoot reservation in Montana

Plus, Alice Neel's largest UK show and a dazzling turn-of-the-century blanket

The large, woven basket by the the Mono Lake Paiute artist Wutoni won first prize at a 1929 competition and, in 2005, set an auction record for a Native American basket

The untitled 1961 painting, by Chippewa artist George Morrison, is the first by a Native American member of the New York School movement in the NGA’s collection

The collector sees herself more of a temporary custodian than an owner, she says

In the state’s capital, a new arts campus signals the growing ambitions of a rich but long-overlooked creative community

The Southwest Association of American Indian Art is laying critical groundwork to serve Native and Indigenous artists now and into the 22nd century

Morrison, whose work remained rooted in the landscape even as it evolved from figurative to quasi-Fauvist to Abstract Expressionist, was a pioneering figure in Native American modernism

Stolen artefacts will be given back to Nigeria, India and a Native American tribe

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow acquired moccasins, a necklace and a child’s bonnet after the Wounded Knee Massacre

The signing of the artist, who will continue to be represented by Jessica Silverman in San Francisco, comes at a time of increasing—and overdue—recognition of Indigenous artists within the US art world

Museum says the move is intended to promote “truthful narratives” and promote social change