Isaac Vargas

After 13 years in the Denver Zoo Quill the porcupine died in January of advanced liver failure.

Danielle SeeWalker reached out about harvesting its quills for Native quillwork workshops at Four Winds American Indian Council.

Read about the class and what student's took away from the experience.

How a Denver Zoo porcupine's quills found their way to a Native quillwork class at Four Winds Indian Center Students are learning the dyeing artform from an Oglala Lakota elder and quillwork master, Cecelia Bernice Bull Bear.