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Ribbon Work
Ribbon work is an appliqué technique for clothing and dance regalia among Prairie and Great Lakes indigenous peoples. Description The ribbons are layered on top of each other with pieces cut out to create optically active designs from both positive and negative space. The ribbons' edges are sewn with needles and cotton threadPenney, David W. ''Native Arts of North America.'' Paris: Terrail, 1998: 62-3. . – later, with nylon thread. Designs and colors may be significant to particular clans. Specific patterns are passed from mother to daughters within families. Design elements can include floral designs, diamonds, stepped diamonds, crescents, hearts, circles, and double-curves. Traditionally, Ribbon Skirts are worn in ceremonies or at special events, and are representative of a person’s unique diversity and strength. Women, girls and gender diverse people also wear them to express pride and confidence in their Indigenous identity and heritage. History Silk ribbons, brought ...
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Indigenous Peoples Of The Americas
In the Americas, Indigenous peoples comprise the two continents' pre-Columbian inhabitants, as well as the ethnic groups that identify with them in the 15th century, as well as the ethnic groups that identify with the pre-Columbian population of the Americas as such. These populations exhibit significant diversity; some Indigenous peoples were historically hunter-gatherers, while others practiced agriculture and aquaculture. Various Indigenous societies developed complex social structures, including pre-contact monumental architecture, organized city, cities, city-states, chiefdoms, state (polity), states, monarchy, kingdoms, republics, confederation, confederacies, and empires. These societies possessed varying levels of knowledge in fields such as Pre-Columbian engineering in the Americas, engineering, Pre-Columbian architecture, architecture, mathematics, astronomy, History of writing, writing, physics, medicine, Pre-Columbian agriculture, agriculture, irrigation, geology, minin ...
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National Ribbon Skirt Day
National Ribbon Skirt Day () is a day in Canada celebrating the ribbon skirt traditionally worn by Indigenous women. The day takes place on 4 January, and was first celebrated in 2023. The day was inspired by the experience of Isabella Kulak, an Indigenous girl in Saskatchewan who was shamed for wearing a ribbon skirt to a "formal dress day" at her elementary school. Prompted by Kulak's experience, Manitoba Senator Mary Jane McCallum put forward a bill in Parliament to recognize National Ribbon Skirt Day, which received unanimous support and was passed into law in December 2022. History Ribbon skirts are traditionally worn by women and girls for Indigenous ceremonies. In December 2020, Isabella Kulak, an Indigenous girl of Cote First Nation in fifth grade, wore a ribbon skirt to a "formal day" at her elementary school, Kamsack Comprehensive Institute, in Kamsack, Saskatchewan. The dress was black with white flowers and a blue, green, and black ribbon on it. However, Kulak wa ...
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Indigenous Culture Of The Northeastern Woodlands
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Great Lakes Tribal Culture
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Dush-toh
A dush-toh, also spelled dush-too, dush-tooh, or dush-tuh, is a customary Caddo hair ornament worn by girls and women during dances, particularly the Turkey Dance."Summer Youth Camp."
''Caddo Nation: Heritage and Culture''. (retrieved 3 Feb 2010)
Neighboring tribes, such as the Kickapoo and Delaware, have similar women's hair ornaments. A dush-toh consists of an embellished, butterfly- or hourglass-shaped frame that is worn on the back of the head with ribbons that flow down the back, almost to the ground. They were made in the 19th and 20th centuries,Ellison 11 as well as into the present.


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The top of the butterfly-shaped frame is typically 4.25 inches wide and the bottom is usually 4-5/8 inches wide. The frame is 7.5 inches tall. The frame can be covered in black felt and edged w ...
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, Financial District, Los Angeles, financial, and Culture of Los Angeles, cultural center of Southern California. With an estimated 3,878,704 residents within the city limits , it is the List of United States cities by population, second-most populous in the United States, behind only New York City. Los Angeles has an Ethnic groups in Los Angeles, ethnically and culturally diverse population, and is the principal city of a Metropolitan statistical areas, metropolitan area of 12.9 million people (2024). Greater Los Angeles, a combined statistical area that includes the Los Angeles and Riverside–San Bernardino metropolitan areas, is a sprawling metropolis of over 18.5 million residents. The majority of the city proper lies in Los Angeles Basin, a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the ...
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Crow Tribe Of Montana
The Crow, whose autonym is Apsáalooke (), are Native Americans living primarily in southern Montana. Today, the Crow people have a federally recognized tribe, the Crow Tribe of Montana, with an Indian reservation, the Crow Indian Reservation, located in the south-central part of the state. Crow Native Americans are a Plains tribe, who speak the Crow language, part of the Missouri River Valley branch of Siouan languages. Of the 14,000 enrolled tribal citizens, an estimated 3,000 spoke the Crow language in 2007. In historical times, the Crow lived in the Yellowstone River valley, which extends from present-day Wyoming, through Montana, and into North Dakota, where it joins the Missouri River. During the United States' expansion into the West, the Crow allied with the Americans against their neighbors and rivals, the Dakota, Lakota, and Cheyenne. Since the 19th century, Crow people have been concentrated on their reservation established south of Billings, Montana. Today, man ...
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Northern Cheyenne Tribe
The Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation () is the federally recognized Northern Cheyenne tribe and a Plains tribe. The Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation is reservation located in southeastern Montana, that is approximately large. It is home to approximately 6,000 Cheyenne people. The reservation is bounded on the east by the Tongue River and on the west by the Crow Reservation. There are small parcels of non-contiguous off-reservation trust lands in Meade County, South Dakota, northeast of the city of Sturgis. Its timbered ridges that extend into northwestern South Dakota are part of Custer National Forest and it is approximately east of the site of the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn. In March 2013, the Northern Cheyenne Tribe had 12,266 people enrolled citizens, of which about 6,012 resided on the reservation, with approximately 91% of the population Native American (full or part blood quantum) and 72.8% identifying as Cheyenne. Slightl ...
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Bethany Yellowtail
Bethany Yellowtail (born 1989) is a Native American fashion designer based in Los Angeles, California.{{Cite news, url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/02/fashion/standing-rock-dakota-access-pipeline-pyer-moss.html, title=Fashion Steps Up at Standing Rock, last=Safronova, first=Valeriya, date=2016-12-02, work=The New York Times, access-date=2017-03-19, issn=0362-4331 Known for her work that reflects her Indigenous heritage, she is an enrolled citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe and a descendant of the Crow Tribe of Montana. She serves as designer and CEO for her line B.Yellowtail. Early life and education Yellowtail was born in the small rural town of Wyola, located in the southeast corner of Montana near the Wyoming border.{{Cite web, url=http://www.beyondbuckskin.com/2010/03/designer-profile-bethany-yellowtail.html , title=Designer Profile {{! Bethany Yellowtail, website=www.beyondbuckskin.com, access-date=2017-03-19 She is an enrolled citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe ...
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Mary Jane McCallum
Mary Jane McCallum (born May 1, 1952) is a Canadian Senator representing Manitoba, appointed in 2017. She is the 8th Chancellor of Brandon University, a role she assumed in 2021, making her the first Indigenous woman to hold that post. A Cree woman, and a dentist by profession, McCallum has worked to provide dental and medical services to northern and Indigenous communities across Manitoba and Saskatchewan. As a survivor of the Canadian residential school system, she advocates for social justice, Indigenous rights, and decolonization, sharing her personal experiences to foster awareness and understanding. Early life and education Mary Jane McCallum was born on May 1, 1952. She is a citizen of the Barren Lands First Nation in Brochet, Manitoba, and identifies as a Cree woman. At the age of five, McCallum attended the Guy Hill Residential School in The Pas, Manitoba, where she remained for 11 years. She has described this period as traumatic, stating that her identity was "reshap ...
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Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province in Western Canada. It is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and to the south by the United States (Montana and North Dakota). Saskatchewan and neighbouring Alberta are the only landlocked provinces of Canada. In 2025, Saskatchewan's population was estimated at 1,250,909. Nearly 10% of Saskatchewan's total area of is fresh water, mostly rivers, reservoirs, and List of lakes in Saskatchewan, lakes. Residents live primarily in the southern prairie half of the province, while the northern half is mostly forested and sparsely populated. Roughly half live in the province's largest city, Saskatoon, or the provincial capital, Regina, Saskatchewan, Regina. Other notable cities include Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Prince Albert, Moose Jaw, Yorkton, Swift Current, North Battleford, Estevan, Weyburn, Melfort, Saskatchewan, Melfort, ...
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