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From fire and cedar, grief and grit – Kasaan Trinkets is a love letter to survival and sacred side hustles.
A Haida woman-owned business rooted in land, laughter, and resistance.
Founding Owner
Randi Braz
Raised in the cedar-scented chaos of Kasaan, Alaska, Randi Braz is a Haida artist, mother, and unapologetic truth-teller. Her Haida name, Sgaan Jaat, means Killerwhale Woman – fitting for someone who’s been swimming upstream her wh0le life with sass, grief, and sacred determination.
After losing her generational home to a devastating fire in 2024, Randi rebuilt – not just her life, but a business rooted in everything that made her: the aunties with sharp tongues and soft hearts, the ferry horns that sang her to sleep, the land that never stopped calling her home.
Her work blends ancestral humor, ceremony, resistance, and survival into every design. Randi does it all: designs, prints, packs, writes, laughs, and cries through every launch. Through Kasaan Trinkets, she creates wire-wrapped jewelry, printed apparel, cultural kits, and truth-telling content designed for Native people who are tired of buying their culture back from Etsy strangers. Every product tells a story. Every story carries memory. And every purchase helps build something sacred in a village the internet barely remembers – but where healing is alive and ancestors are always close.
Why I Make Stuff
Because sometimes healing looks like a hoodie that says what you’re too tired to explain. Sometimes it’s wire-wrapping a stone to remind someone they’re still here. I make stuff because grief needs somewhere to go. Because laughter is a survival skill. Because aunties need earrings with attitude. Because in a world where we’re expected to shrink, I’d rather design something helps us take up space.
Everything you see is special and either handmade by me, or sourced from other native vendors and artists. From my tiny village in Southeast Alaska, where the mail comes once a week (if we’re lucky) and the ancestral spirits show up more reliably than USPS.
This isn’t mass-produced merch. It’s medicine wrapped in sass and story.
From Side Hustle to Sacred Survival Tools
What you see here isn’t just jewelry – it’s protest, prayer, and pay-the-light-bill strategy wrapped in wire and attitude. Each item sold is boxed, packed and shipped by hand by one Native woman doing it all from a little village most people couldn’t find on a map.
When you buy from Kasaan Trinkets, you’re not just getting something pretty. You’re investing in Indigenou visibility, community healing, and a one-woman mission to build back from the ashes. Literally.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the mission of Kasaan Trinkets
To turn cultural memory, personal grief, and community resilience into something wearable, useful and sacred. Kasaan Trinkets is about truth-telling, honoring our people, and making sure Native stories aren’t just preserved – they’re worn, shared and used.
Are you really doing all this yourself?
Yep. One Haida woman, two kids, a mountain of coffee and one wild dream. Every design, every post, every product? That’s me, Randi. Until I can afford a team, it’s a party of one. So thank you for your patience, your support, and your shares.
Where do your products come from?
A mix. I design and make most things by hand, like jewelry, apparel, and cultural kits. I also source from Native makers, trauma-informed creators, and a few carefully chosen wholesalers (because remote Alaska is no joke). I never stock anything that doesn’ t align with our values.
How are the items made?
Most are handmade by me in Kasaan, Alaska. I use wire, stone, fabric, cedar, copper, intention, grief, healing,, and coffee. Every piece carries its own energy – and a little bit of village magic.
What categories of products are available?
Apparel, jewelry, ceremony supplies, sacred sass, and things I wish existed when I needed them most.
How do I get involved or support?
You can shop, join a membership, become a corporate sponsor, or sponsor an artist. You can also jsut like, share, comment or send kind words. That means more than you know.
“Sacred Salve: Devil’s Club, Auntie Approved”
This ain’t your average lotion. This is Devil’s Club – Spiritual armor in a jar. Harvested an prepared by Felicia Duprea, owner of Same But Different, a Native homeopathic Skincare supplier and maker who knows her medicine, this salve is rooted in tradition and packed with healing power.
Devi’s Club (Oplopanax horridus) has been used for generations by Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest for pain, inflammation, skin issues and spiritual protection. We’re proud to stock Felicia’s salve here at Kasaan Trinkets because it’s the real deal – no knockoffs, no nonesense.
Whether You’re a sore auntie, a tired uncle, or a village elder with mystery aches, this salve might just become your new go-to. It smells like earth, intention and wisdom – and every jar supports another Native entrepenuer walking the same healing path.
We’re not making this one ourselves – because sometimes supporting another Native artist IS the medicine.
