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Ancient tradition holds that certain metals have medicinal qualities. Silver is intuition, beauty and spiritual healing. Valued since the dawn of time as a store of wealth, gold continues to be the most solid medium of exchange in the world. The western states have seen many gold rushes…California in 1849, Colorado in 1859, the Yukon in 1897, and the latest gold rush of the 1980s and 1990s with its huge surface mines in the old gold mining camps of the western U.S. The United States is once again one of the largest producers of gold in the world,
The Navajo were the first of the southwestern Indians to produce jewelry that required metal working. Around 1850 a Navajo Medicine Man, Atsidi Sani, convinced a Mexican blacksmith to teach him the art of working with metal. When the Navajo returned to their homeland in 1868 after their imprisonment at Fort Sumner, New Mexico, traders arrived in the area bringing silver coins with them. It was with these coins that the Navajo began to make silver jewelry. In 1884, two Mexican silversmiths were employed by the Hubbell Trading Post to teach Navajos how to solder and work with silver. We still have awesome work done by the navajo tribes including 
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Posted by Silversmith (July 20, 2009)
