Indigenous fashion: The politics of ribbon skirts, runways and resilience
Clothing is a way of making a statement and telling people what you believe. Fashion can empower, it can challenge, and it can be deeply political.
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Posted: May 28, 2021 10:48 AM ET | Last Updated: May 31
Abigail Echo-Hawk s ribbon dress made from body bags, one of many examples of Indigenous designers demonstrating strength through fashion.(Samuel Fu)
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While many of us haven t put a lot of thought into what to wear this past year (except occasionally above-the-waist for Zoom calls), some Indigenous artists and designers have continued to explore style and expression through fashion.
Native American women are murdered at a rate as high as 10 times the national average Rep. Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) (Jonathan Newton /The Washington Post; iStock; Lily illustration) Cecilia Nowell
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Growing up in Canada, Agnes Woodward, who’s Plains Cree and originally from Kawacatoose First Nation, always knew that her family cared deeply about missing and murdered Indigenous women. In the 1990s, she watched as her aunt Mona and a few others began trying to draw attention to the lacking police response when Indigenous women went missing: They would hold up images of missing friends on street corners. In 1992, they organized the first march in Vancouver in memory of missing and murdered Indigenous women (MMIW).
Print article Growing up in Canada, Agnes Woodward, who’s Plains Cree and originally from Kawacatoose First Nation, always knew that her family cared deeply about missing and murdered Indigenous women. In the 1990s, she watched as her aunt Mona and a few others began trying to draw attention to the lacking police response when Indigenous women went missing: They would hold up images of missing friends on street corners. In 1992, they organized the first march in Vancouver in memory of missing and murdered Indigenous women (MMIW). Then, in 2015, the Canadian government approached Woodward’s family to ask if they wanted to add her aunt, Eleanor (Laney) Ewenin, to the list it was compiling as part of its National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. The entire family gathered to talk over the decision and concluded that “if we step up and we tell our story” and it helps any other families, “then it’s our responsibility to do so,” Woodward recal
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