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 ...

Some Mi'kmaw women will mark National Ribbon Skirt Day by encouraging children to take pride in and wear cultural items like ribbon skirts. Thursday is National Ribbon Skirt Day, a day to ...

Wednesday night, Tanner was among the dozen-plus community members who came together at the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians' education office to make ribbon skirts, and shirts.

“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 ...

Find our stories here. Alyssia Sutherland was 14 years old when she was first introduced to ribbon skirts. Her mother had just moved her kids about a two-hour drive south, from Peguis First Nation ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

8th grader Deja Marshall designed her own ribbon skirt, which is a nod to her loved ones. “These are my favorite cousins’ colors, so I decided to do that because we barely see each other ...

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 people to ...