Global News’ Sarah Jones was able to step into one Saskatchewan community who learned to make their own ribbon skirts and have been wearing them with pride.
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 ...
A Saturday event in Winnipeg for the third annual National Ribbon Skirt Day was a chance to celebrate Indigenous pride, along with " love, kindness [and] loud auntie laughter," says one organizer.
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 come and make ...
Dozens donned colourful fabrics and patterns Saturday in honour of the third-annual National Ribbon Skirt Day celebrated across the country. In Winnipeg, Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit ...
National Ribbon Skirt Day was inspired by Isabella Kulak, a member of the Cote First Nation in Saskatchewan, following the discrimination she experienced after wearing a ribbon skirt to her elementary ...