Susan Hudson, a member of the Kinyaa’a’anii or Towering House clan of the Navajo Nation, is a rising star on the Indian arts and crafts scene. Her unusual quilt designs are capturing the attention of ...

The Navajo Quilt Project engages with the community, makes quilts for giveaways and traditional ceremonies, and empowers others to start their own businesses. Hudson’s quilts have been acquired for ...

Another of her famed quilts called "29 Warriors" shows, just as the name implies 29 horses, each representing the original code talkers. "I think it's telling the story of our people," Hudson said ...

One 19th-century quilt, for example, was made by an 8-year-old white girl under the direction of an enslaved Black woman named Rachel, who presided over the family nursery in Kentucky.

"Craft in America: Quilts" will broadcast on New Mexico PBS Channel 5.1 at 9 p.m. on Dec. 27. Noel Lyn Smith covers the Navajo Nation for The Daily Times.