Cree woman leads initiative making over 100 red ribbon skirts for families of MMIWG
. The colours of the ribbons and colours of the skirts themselves hold meaning.
“What I’ve learned is the colour red is a colour that the spirits recognize,” said Smallboy. “So my vision was if I could make these skirts, these 100 skirts, give them to families, then the loved ones that passed on could see them, they’d recognize them in red and come march with them.
Smallboy wasn’t part of an organization so she struggled to find space to make the ribbon skirts, but the march and its organizers welcomed her.
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