One of Nicholas Galanin's works is a hand-engraved set of child-sized handcuffs, and is one of three pairswhich will never be displayed together, as a symbolic way of demonstrating how Indigenous families were torn apart and separated by the American boarding school system.
Another work entitled Indian Children's Bracelet is a hand-engraved set of child-sized handcuffs that represent the Indigenous children who were forced into American boarding schools, which were intended to assimilate them into European culture. The piece is one of three pairs that will never be displayed together, as a symbolic way of demonstrating how Indigenous families were torn apart and separated by the American boarding school system. 
