Canada marks 1st National Ribbon Skirt Day to celebrate Indigenous traditions – National | 24CA News
Wednesday marks Canada’s first National Ribbon Skirt Day.
Manitoba Sen. Mary Jane McCallum’s invoice to acknowledge the day each Jan. 4 handed in Parliament late final yr.
It was impressed by Isabella Kulak, a member of the Cote First Nation in Saskatchewan who wore a ribbon skirt to her rural Saskatchewan faculty in December 2020, when she was 10 years previous.
She wore the colorful garment, donned by Indigenous ladies at cultural occasions, as a part of a proper day – however her household mentioned on the time {that a} workers member instructed her the outfit wasn’t thought-about formal sufficient.
The faculty division apologized, however her story sparked a web-based motion of Indigenous ladies sharing pictures of themselves sporting ribbon skirts as an expression of satisfaction of their id.
Kulak and her household say that in the present day, they need folks to put on one thing that reveals they’re happy with who they’re, whether or not or not that could be a ribbon skirt.
