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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Autumn Lewis from Wiikwemikong First Nation, Ont., has been wearing and making ribbon skirts since her youth. She even sews them for her seven-year-old daughter. She plans to make a new creation to ...