In Canada, Jan. 4 is National Ribbon Skirt Day. For two Indigenous seamstresses in New Brunswick, the skirts have significant meaning -- from empowerment to identity.
It's not uncommon for Claire Tuckanow to hear a sewing machine whirring in the background while she works inside Regina's ...
A Saturday event in Winnipeg for the third annual National Ribbon Skirt Day was a chance to celebrate Indigenous pride, along ...
“We are desperate for funding,” said Grassel-Kreitlow, “and without funding, we are not able to provide advocacy to work with ...
The Honourable Gary Anandasangaree, Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs; the Honourable Patty Hajdu, Minister of Indigenous ...
Dozens donned colourful fabrics and patterns Saturday in honour of the third-annual National Ribbon Skirt Day celebrated across the country.
A Saturday event in Winnipeg for the third annual National Ribbon Skirt Day was a chance for dozens to celebrate Indigenous pride, along with "love, kindness [and] loud auntie laughter," according ...
The Métis-Cree woman from Okanese First Nation says it’s usually one of the three dozen young people she’s been working with to make their own ribbon skirts. About The Star ...
The organization has been working since the fall on creating a ribbon skirt regalia library for youth to borrow ribbon skirts and shirts to wear at ceremonies. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO - Claire ...