One of southwestern Ontario's most well-known ribbon skirt makers is celebrating the first-ever day Wednesday by marking her artwork as an important step that could encourage more Indigenous ...

“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 ...

A group of students in Ann Robertson’s Oceti Sakowin Owaunspe class at Whittier Middle School spent their afternoons Thursday and Friday sewing themselves new ribbon skirts. For many of the ...

Here in Onigamiising, the Indian Education program staff and Parent Committee recently hosted get-togethers in which girls and women sewed ribbon skirts. Because I enjoy sewing, my daughter ...

Smallboy's sister, Josephine, gifted her two ribbon skirts. In many Indigenous cultures, women wear skirts to ceremonial and cultural events. The ribbon skirt has numerous teachings, including ...

While President Joe Biden delivered his State of the Union address on Tuesday evening, viewers couldn't help but notice the presence of a ribbon skirt, worn by one of First Lady Jill Biden's guests.

Residential school survivor Rita Martin lived decades before she wore her first ribbon skirt. Handmade with the help of her granddaughter, the skirt has the image of a mother and child ...

The RCMP has altered its dress code to include Indigenous ribbon skirts, making the garment available as part of official ceremonial uniforms for female First Nations officers who choose to wear it.

"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 ...