The Tyee

100 Ribbon Skirts, One Stitch at a Time

Ramona Shirt sews a ribbon skirt at Strathcona Community Centre on Jan. 21. Volunteers have worked to make over 100 skirts to give to participants in Vancouver’s annual Women’s Memorial March. Photo ...
Grand Forks Herald

Sewing Ojibwe ribbon skirts stitches together tradition and new styles

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 invited me ...
Vogue

The First National Ribbon Skirt Day Was a Stylish—And Powerful—Movement

In December 2020, 10-year-old Indigenous student Isabella Kulak—who is from Cote First Nation in Saskatchewan, Canada—chose to wear a traditional ribbon skirt to her school’s formal event. In ...
Global News

What is National Ribbon Skirt Day? Here’s what you need to know

For Isabella Kulak, marking National Ribbon Skirt Day means wearing clothing that represents who you are. Her decision to do so a little more than two years ago led Parliament to designate Jan. 4 as a ...
CBC.ca

Deb Haaland wore a ribbon skirt to her swearing in ceremony. Meet the designer who created it.

UnreservedDeb Haaland wore a ribbon skirt to her swearing in ceremony. Meet the designer who created it. This segment originally aired on May 30, 2021. Leading up to Deb Haaland's swearing-in ceremony ...