Several people who trade with the Navajo and other Indians of the Southwest were in Grand Junction recently for an exhibit and auction at the Musuem of Western Colorado.
I got the chance to talk at length with two of them, Sheri Burham and Emerald Tanner, both fifth-generation Indian traders in the southwest, and I wrote the column linked to below.
Trader Emerald Tanner of Tanner’s Indian Arts, Gallup, New Mexico