Chris Kulak says his 10-year-old daughter, Isabella, thinks it might be time for a new downstairs closet to hold all the ribbon skirts arriving from around the world.
The brightly patterned handmade skirts adorned with bands of ribbon are worn by Indigenous women during ceremonies and as an expression of cultural pride something the Grade 5 student has touched off in others after a bad experience at her school.
Isabella, a member of the Cote First Nation in Saskatchewan, wore her ribbon skirt to school last month when it held a formal day before Christmas break.
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Ten-year-old Isabella Kulak is shown in a ribbon skirt in this undated handout image in Kamsack, Sask., a town about 270 kilometres east of Regina. Photo provided by her family. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Kulak Family MANDATORY CREDIT January 08, 2021 - 9:49 AM
REGINA - Chris Kulak says his 10-year-old daughter, Isabella, thinks it might be time for a new downstairs closet to hold all the ribbon skirts arriving from around the world.
The brightly patterned handmade skirts adorned with bands of ribbon are worn by Indigenous women during ceremonies and as an expression of cultural pride â something the Grade 5 student has touched off in others after a bad experience at her school.
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REGINA - Chris Kulak says his 10-year-old daughter, Isabella, thinks it might be time for a new downstairs closet to hold all the ribbon skirts arriving from around the world.
REGINA - Chris Kulak says his 10-year-old daughter, Isabella, thinks it might be time for a new downstairs closet to hold all the ribbon skirts arriving from around the world.
The brightly patterned handmade skirts adorned with bands of ribbon are worn by Indigenous women during ceremonies and as an expression of cultural pride something the Grade 5 student has touched off in others after a bad experience at her school.
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Chris Kulak says his 10-year-old daughter Isabella thinks it might be time for a new downstairs closet to hold all the ribbon skirts arriving from around the world.
The brightly patterned handmade skirts adorned with bands of ribbon are worn by Indigenous women during ceremonies and as an expression of cultural pride something the Grade 5 student has touched off in others after a bad experience at her school.
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