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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ribbon Skirt are a rock band comprised of members of the Anishinaabe, or a group of Indigenous peoples in the Great Lakes region across both Canada and the US. One of the core moral tenets of the ...

“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 ...

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 ...

After making the festival rounds in 2024, Tashiina Buswa's Ribbon Skirt (f.k.a. Love Language) have announced plans for an album under their new moniker called Bite Down, arriving April 11 via ...

1:37 Indigenous seamstresses reflect on National Ribbon Skirt Day Residential school survivor Rita Martin lived decades before she wore her first ribbon skirt. Handmade with the help of her ...

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 ...

When I wear my ribbon skirt, it's my armour." Former Huron Heights teacher Connie Collins said the impact from this unique project. is something that you can’t create in a lesson plan and find ...

When I wear my ribbon skirt, it's my armour." Former Huron Heights teacher Connie Collins said the impact from this unique project. is something that you can’t create in a lesson plan and find in any ...

Cameron Mukwa. Graphix, $24.99 (192p) ISBN 978-1-338-84326-2; $12.99 paper ISBN 978-1-33-884325-5 Two-spirited Ojibwe tween Anang wants to wear a ribbon skirt to the reservation’s upcoming ...