The quilts were signed by and often made by a group of people, usually as a presentation piece to give to someone who might be leaving the community, going out west. Some of them were made as fundraisers or to acknowledge the links between people. This is an old tradition, and it was a way for people to remember and acknowledge how they were connected together.
-Laura Fisher
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