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One girl experienced this firsthand when she wore a traditional Indigenous ribbon skirt to her prom and received backlash from her classmates. An Indigenous teen wore a traditional ribbon skirt to ...
“I want it now, never, always,” Tashiina Buswa sings on “Look What You Did,” the penultimate track on Ribbon Skirt’s debut album, Bite Down. It’s a decent summation of her storytelling ...
This happens within the first minute of "Off Rez," the third track from Ribbon Skirt's debut album Bite Down, a post-punk record honouring the Anishinaabe experience. Like many of us born on this ...
Mendoza started the Red Ribbon Skirt Society, which seeks to accompany and advocate for people with missing or murdered loved ones. “We do really work on their case, meaning that we’ll be at ...
How do you stop someone from rising through the ceiling? This is the first line of Ribbon Skirt’s “Deadhorse,” the opening to their debut album Bite Down. It only gets more visceral and surr ...
Search “Indigenous ribbon skirt” on the internet and you’ll ... a rainbow of ribbons and appliqué butterflies, stars and a corn stalk representing her Pueblo of Laguna membership to her ...
The Saskatchewan Rivers School Division is celebrating their fifth annual Ribbon Skirt/Ribbon Shirt Day on Friday. In December of 2020, 10-year-old Isabella Kulak, who is a member of Cote First ...
"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 the ...
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 ...
REGINA — It's not uncommon for Claire Tuckanow to hear a sewing machine whirring in the background while she works inside Regina's mâmawêyatitân centre. The Métis-Cree woman from Okanese ...