Dear Susan, being a art quilter my self, I find you quilts to be very beautiful. They tell a wonderful story that is beautiful. I wish to thank you for sharing your art with us. Ladena

Ms Hudson your quilts are stunning. Thank you for sharing your story.

Talking about the boarding school made me so emotional! Our people are so resilient and our culture is so beautiful!!

so lovely...the people, the land, the culture, the quilts.

You are a Beautiful Light in this World, Bless you for your Vision and Light A gift to your Women with Honor and your People with Love.

How very beautiful. You are leaving stories of your culture for future generations! Have not been so touched by a story such as this one. Thank you for sharing your journey.

Thank you so much for sharing. You are amazing.

I’ve met this amazing woman. Her quilts tell amazing stories. The story of her quilt of the children taken away from their families is stunning. She is a treasure to her ancestors.

Out of this world beautiful quilts and story Thank you for sharing

This needs to be seen by more people

I am so honored to have you as part of my history I am proud of without the teachings you all have tought those willing to learn the great spirits and our spirit animals to guide and protect thank you please don't lose hope to keep your family alive threw stories and history. I love it

Beautiful woman/spirit. Love her love and admiration for her people and sharing of herself through her gift of sewing. God Bless you!

Susan: Thank you so much for your time and talents! Thanks to you many can and are being educated👏👏👏 You are truly using God given talents❤️😀

Gorgeous quilts! Great traditions.

My great grandfather was a ojibwe code talker along with his brother & cousin!!

How lovely, beautiful people, great video.

I love your quilts. When I make a quilt, a lot oh heart goes into them. Each one has brought someone I care about to mind and soon that is who I’m making it for. But my favorite was using orphan blocks that I found in my great grandmothers trunk. I put them into a quilt for my mother. Thank you for sharing your art and history with us!

How beautiful quilts and the life so sad what happened long ago,. Give the quilts to your kids and grandkids it's the legacy they have.

Susan is amazing AND beautiful.

What beautiful work and a wonderful alternate language for those who cannot hear oral language. This is a very tactile way of sharing your history and leaving a legacy for others. Thank you so much for sharing.

Wonderfully inspiring Thankyou For some it is too painful to create such a thing of beauty that documents the past. You are a special lady.

You have every right to do whatever makes you happy as an art. No one has the right to tell you how to live your life. The didn't have the right to put you all on reservations but they did it. We will sew what we wish, you and I and the world will be better for what we make.

It's so wonderful to hear your story. I come from a line that did not share our history. I have some native American blood but now I need to search to find WHO I am

You are a wonderful woman, empowering through the love of your craft. You brought me to Tears with your words. Blessings to you and yours ❤️

I loved the one with horses and "ghost" riders!

Your quilts are beautiful, I was told by my elders to make a flaw in anything I made. Even if others can't see the flaw you know and spirit knows. To be humble is important in all things.

Wow! Such beautiful work!

These are such incredible story quilts. I would so love to see them in person. Life, for me, has passed too quickly to see all there is to see.

Beautiful work Susan Hudson 😉 thank you for sharing your work & stories

Absolutely amazing story, thank you x

This is a beautiful tribute to your family and a wonderful history lesson. Thanks for sharing.

I love sewing, not as beautiful as your quilts. The fact that it has stories along with your project it gives me motivation. I love your work.

What a marvellous way of remembering one's ancestors and their stories. Beautiful and heart-rending at the same time.

Thank you so much for sharing this, and for telling your story!

I cried with you when you gave your quilt away. I cried first with her when she saw it. Your hearts are one. Every part of your story is beautiful.

I felt the love here and I cried too- amazing quilts and heritage! I was told as a child of whom I was named after in my family and that she was Chickasawhay Indian. Therefore, I became fascinated with Indian cultures around me. I often asked around for old pictures of such family through the years but that was unsuccessful. Yet, in my mind will always be imbedded the description of someone I was told I highly resembled having long hair, withered hands and wearing native clothing. Her 150ish year-old quilt hand sewn with all those wonderful, significant, vintage fabrics is no more but her wash pot is still here and so is her descendant that adores quilting, no doubt as much as she did!

Your quilts are beautiful. I too quilt. I think each quilt tells a story in its own way. I love giving quilts away.

I have just started quilting in the UK and found your beautiful channel. Such deeply special and spiritual creations. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you for letting me hear part of your story.

I just want to share an idea I have for quilting. I love quilts, never learned. I grew up in Southern California. My neighborhood is mostly Latino families. They love their heritage from Mexico & the different states that they came from. I thought it would be a very thriving business if quilts could be ordered to be made by hand and personalized by the customer choosing which state they are from and several other themes to be sewed on them whether it be a common occupation, like a local bakery, or raising, growing, working whatever was personal to their hearts. A customised quilt, with state and other varying artwork would make a very cherished family heirloom, to last for years. There is 32 states, in Mexico They all have flags, they all have capitals, they all have pride. Native American and their Nations would also be a wonderful way to record and document, anything from the hearts and memory of languages, crafts, traditions, etc. These are precious and must be preserved. I hope someone can take this idea and make it a family business, ♥ thanks for reading.

Absolutely stunning quilts and stories. Thank you for sharing.

That horse appliqué is beautiful. The patchwork stars just amazing. Such wonderful work. It would be a dream to spend time watching you work :)

So moving. Keep the story going🙏❤

I am moved to tears by hearing your stories that go with your amazing quilts. My grandson is there on the Navajo Reservation, serving a mission for our Church. He loves the wonderful people, and the beautiful traditions of the Navajo people. You are a true artist, and your quilts are works of art and history. Thank you.❤️

Amazing quilts!!! Your stry must be told and never forgotten. As a Jewish woman, granddaughter of a Polish Jew, hoose entire family was murdered by the nazzis, I hurt the holocaust suffered by all Native American, over all of the American continent, by the hands of conquerors.

Awesome.

What a beautiful woman. Thank you for featuring her. Her quilts are spectacular!

Your art is beautiful and I love that it tells your peoples story!

Beautiful! Love your work.

Love your story you have such beautiful quilts all the best donna from Canada

Wonderful and moving!

You do beautiful work! Please ignore people who try to discourage you-keep on keeping on! I am White, but garment sewing is my happy place. It is therapeutic.

Beautiful!!! I love that you are sharing the stories with us all!

Beautiful love your quilts. Tragic how the American native people were treated.

I am proud of your talent, your story, your stand , & courage. Continue passing the history of your ancestros . Hopefully the young people will listen, & someday continue the teachings .

Those Lone Star and appliqué quilts are so beautiful. I quilt so know the skill that this art takes. To see the bonds of family and friendship coming together to celebrate their survival is so moving 🕯🙏🏻 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

So beautiful!

My Sister Desbah went to a boarding school, when she was with us she told me how horrible the school was, never seeing her family. I’m so sorry for your Mother’s experience.

I'm a Mexican-American man and have Yaqui heritage. I also love to sew. Make what you love and not what others like. It's your art and your creations. As long as you love what you make it doesn't matter what others think. Eventually someone is gonna fall in love with your art. Respect to my indigenous brothers and sisters.

What a wonderful woman she is to do all of this for her present day family and her ancestors 😊😊😊

Beautiful. I love it. I used to live in Gallup, NM and I loved all of my Navajo friends soooo much and still do!! ♥️

I love the history of the Indian tribes. My Step father was Cherokee, and my Father was Northern Canadian Indian, but I forgot the tribe. I was raised by my step father. but he taught me well. I remember him crying for his ancestors. I love the fact you hand quilt as I find that so relaxing in my own quilting

Thank you for sharing! I have visited friends on the Navaho Reservation outside Flagstaff, Az. It was a wonderful experience. I am also a quilter and love her history quilts! What a true inspiration!

Thank you for sharing

As a quilter myself, I consider myself in very good company. From my perspective of the war in the Pacific, the code talkers won it. People who had nothing to prove, proved everything. I have so much gratitude for them.

Amazing work, lovely lady. An Old Girl in KZN SOUTH AFRICA

Amazing lady with an amazing heritage.Thank you for sharing and inspiring

Beautiful !

Thank you for sharing your story, your quilts and your love for your clan. 🌻

I love your story ,and i am a quilter but nothing compares to your quilts and the beautiful story of your people , I know you already know this but we won World War Two because of the Navajo language so thanks to your people we live today in a some what free world .

Your work is so beautiful ❤

Beautiful quilts and stories. Beautiful woman. 💕

Your quilts are so wonderful I could look at them all day. I love the colors you choose they are wonderful

I am a self-taught quilter. I admire your work!

Very beautiful.

Your quilts are beautiful!

so beautiful...

Beautiful story and history you are giving others. Bless you. 💞

This was amazing thank you for sharing this with us. God Bless John 3:17

This is beautiful but so sad that our indigenous people have these stories to tell. ❤️

Your quilt is beautiful! Thank you for sharing it. The colors are so bright.

It's interesting that she said in traditional textile making for her ethnic group, perfection is not stressed as they believe only God can create perfect things and so it is okay for humans to make imperfect art. In looking into the history of traditional Black American quilting, Ive found a similar opinion is held. They too believe that only God can create perfection and so their "mistakes" arent mistakes at all.

Beautiful quilts your work is amazing and I love the history you put in them❤️

Campbell could of said something other than boring bc starquilts are NOT boring!! Smh..but I'm glad you used it in a good way to make more artwork!!

I would love to learn from you. Can you show how to make the horses and people figures on the quilts,they are beautiful.

Beautiful.

I love your story, I would love to learn from you.

Tomorrow I'm going to the heard museum in down town phx to see for myself your beautiful art. My mom told me that my Grandfather Abe used to do sand paintings there.I hope I can find something with his name or picture.

How much is your beautiful quilt??? I want to buy 1 or 2

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This beautiful lady, while incorporating traditional designs, is actually producing modernist art. The original inhabitants of this land have been unjustly subordinated by decaying colonialism. We need to advance them to bring this country back to greatness.

💘 💘 💘 💘 the people the Dinte

Nizhoni,, would love to make star baby quilts.

I love to quilt a d proud to give mine away.

I admire you and would love to purchase your quilt. I am a former Marine and had the pleasure of meeting the code talkers at the Navajo nation fair in 1997 innWidow Rick Arizona.

I would love to help, I would like to buy a oversized twin quilt from you.

Aóó Nízhóní'yee"

Love your quilts. Your right, only God is perfect. But, God loves us so, so he gave us His only son to die on the cross for our sins. Jesus paid the price for our rebellion. Jesus rose again on the 3rd day. He conquered death. John says in his letter in the Bible. For God so loved the world He gave His only begotten son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. 😀

I know that our people invaded your country and I apologize for the sad way all native Americans were treated .