Byline: SANDRA BALTAZAR MARTÍNEZ

Lisa Hageman Yahgulanaas was probably 3 years old when she started harvesting spruce roots with her great-grandmother Selina Peratrovich, a master weaver in their native Haida Gwaii islands.

She's a Raven from the Shark house of Dadens village off Canada's Pacific Basin who for the first time is participating in Indian Market. The 90th Indian Market is the first year the event is open to other non-U.S. Native artists. Yahgulanaas and 14 other First Nations artists will showcase their work this weekend.

Yahgulanaas, 38, is also one of seven Southwestern Association for Indian Arts Fellowship recipients and one...