“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 ...

dedicating the quilt to the Native children who did not capitulate to the administrators and federal officials who carried out federal Indian boarding school policies. These frames tell the story of ...

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 ...