“Native Threads,” a set of 12 quilts by five American Indian women with connections to Haskell, was organized by the Kansas Arts Commission and the Mid-America Arts Alliance. The show opened ...

Trimmed in black fabric, the four-paneled quilt showed a sequence of images ... the story of an execution-style killing of a Native American boy. Indian boarding schools operated for decades ...

A Navajo woman who has spent 50 years sewing has now been honored with an NEA award for her unique quilts. She is unafraid to criticize the mainstream culture that's marginalized Indigenous artists.