One girl experienced this firsthand when she wore a traditional Indigenous ribbon skirt to her prom and received backlash from her classmates. An Indigenous teen wore a traditional ribbon skirt to ...

At her school in Ross River, Yukon, 13-year-old Jael Johnnie sat quietly at her Singer sewing machine, hemming the edge of a bright purple fabric as the machine hums rhythmically. She was making a ...

How do you stop someone from rising through the ceiling? This is the first line of Ribbon Skirt’s “Deadhorse,” the opening to their debut album Bite Down. It only gets more visceral and surr ...

“When I was little, I only had like two or three [ribbon] skirts,” says White, whose mother taught her to sew them. Now White, Metoxen and Belisle are filling their closets. The three young ...

The Saskatchewan Rivers School Division is celebrating their fifth annual Ribbon Skirt/Ribbon Shirt Day on Friday. In December of 2020, 10-year-old Isabella Kulak, who is a member of Cote First ...

"Nobody ever knew what happened to them. They just disappeared." Jamie Smallboy is the founder of the Red Ribbon Skirt Project. (Submitted by Jamie Smallboy ) Smallboy says feeling the spirit of the ...

1:37 Indigenous seamstresses reflect on National Ribbon Skirt Day Residential school survivor Rita Martin lived decades before she wore her first ribbon skirt. Handmade with the help of her ...

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. “They’re like, ‘Can we just ...

The Black Hills are full of hundreds of creative Native artists working on projects of all shapes and sizes, traditional and contemporary. Historically, clothing and accessories have been a way ...

Cameron Mukwa. Graphix, $24.99 (192p) ISBN 978-1-338-84326-2; $12.99 paper ISBN 978-1-33-884325-5 Two-spirited Ojibwe tween Anang wants to wear a ribbon skirt to the reservation’s upcoming ...

Lily Mendoza works to heal family and community through the Red Ribbon Skirt Society. She dedicates her life to saving the lives of others. Lily Mendoza aims to reconnect with her Lakota roots ...