A class at Tahlequah Public Library on how to make a ribbon skirt attracted a good crowd, and several participants hoped to have one made to wear to Cherokee National Holiday events this weekend.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jan. 13—TRAVERSE CITY — Seventeen-year-old Theresa Tanner has never sewn before, let alone made an entire garment. She sat in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lena Goforth, centre, and Clairice Tuckanow, right, help a participant make a ribbon skirt as part of a program run by non-profit ...

A group of 13-year-old girls in Kahnawà:ke are learning how to use a sewing machine by making their own ribbon skirts. It's a part of a five-week class called Auntie's Ribbon Skirt Making, geared ...

Sewing is a skill that you will have for a lifetime and it comes with many lessons. Some say it builds patience, care and focus. Yuzicapi said her grandmother used to make blankets, dresses and even ...

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, ...

A group of Indigenous youth pose wearing the ribbon skirts they made with Growing Youth Movers at the mâmawêyatitân centre in Regina in this undated handout photo.. The organization has been working ...

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 ...

Sewing is a skill that you will have for a lifetime and it comes with many lessons. Some say it builds patience, care and focus. Kunsi (grandmother) Glendice Yuzicapi from Standing Buffalo Dakota ...