In honor of Native American Heritage Month, the University of Nevada, Reno’s Office of Indigenous Relations and the Multicultural Center’s Indigenous Student Services program will hold “Ribbon ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The sewing machines are buzzing at Whitter Middle School as students, staff, and volunteers make traditional Native American clothing. 8th grader Deja Marshall designed her ...

University of Minnesota third year medical student Dannah Nephew, who is Ojibwe from the White Earth Reservation, hunches over her Singer sewing machine as she sews a ribbon skirt in her Hopkins, Minn ...

A group of students in Ann Robertson’s Oceti Sakowin Owaunspe class at Whittier Middle School spent their afternoons Thursday and Friday sewing themselves new ribbon skirts. For many of the students, ...

Jan. 13—TRAVERSE CITY — Seventeen-year-old Theresa Tanner has never sewn before, let alone made an entire garment. She sat in front of a Singer sewing machine, carefully pumping the pedal, as she ...

R ibbon skirts — once reserved for ceremonies across many tribal traditions — are showing up in everyday spaces on a new generation of Indigenous women. Miinan White, McKenna Metoxen and Ava Belisle ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A project that helps Indigenous middle schoolers make traditional Native American clothing is expanding. The students wear the clothes during their 8th grade honoring ...