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Makailah Hernandez, a third-year psychobiology student, created the Indigenous jewelry company Graymountain Beads about a year ago. She is an enrolled Navajo Tribal member and said she named her business after her great-great-grandmother, Wanda Graymountain, to continue the matriarchal traditions of the tribe. (Xuxin Zhang/Daily Bruin staff)

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Student creates jewelry business to honor heritage, relieve stress

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Makailah Hernandez’s medicine of choice amid a pandemic is beading jewelry. The third-year psychobiology student is an enrolled Navajo Tribal member and founded the Indigenous jewelry brand Graymountain Beads about a year ago.

https://dailybruin.com/2020/11/30/student-creates-jewelry-business-to-honor-heritage-relieve-stress/

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Student creates jewelry business to honor heritage, relieve stress

By Zoë Prendiville

Nov. 30, 2020 7:35 p.m.