{"id":102821,"date":"2023-01-04T09:06:56","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T14:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/?p=102821"},"modified":"2023-01-04T09:22:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T14:22:02","slug":"canada-marks-first-national-ribbon-skirt-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/canada\/canada-marks-first-national-ribbon-skirt-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada marks first National Ribbon Skirt Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/ribbon-skirt-day-milenio-stadium.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102822\" src=\"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/ribbon-skirt-day-milenio-stadium.jpg\" alt=\"ribbon skirt day - milenio stadium\" width=\"1020\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/ribbon-skirt-day-milenio-stadium.jpg 1020w, https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/ribbon-skirt-day-milenio-stadium-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/ribbon-skirt-day-milenio-stadium-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/ribbon-skirt-day-milenio-stadium-390x220.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today marks Canada\u2019s first National Ribbon Skirt Day.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Manitoba Sen. Mary Jane McCallum\u2019s bill to recognize the day every Jan. 4 passed in Parliament late last year.<\/p>\n<p>It was inspired by Isabella Kulak, a member of the Cote First Nation in Saskatchewan who wore a ribbon skirt to her rural Saskatchewan school in December 2020, when she was 10 years old.<\/p>\n<p>She wore the colourful garment, donned by Indigenous women at cultural events, as part of a formal day \u2014 but her family said at the time that a staff member told her the outfit wasn\u2019t considered formal enough.<\/p>\n<p>The school division apologized, but her story sparked an online movement of Indigenous women sharing photos of themselves wearing ribbon skirts as an expression of pride in their identity.<\/p>\n<p>Kulak and her family say that today, they want people to wear something that shows they are proud of who they are, whether or not that is a ribbon skirt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Today marks Canada\u2019s first National Ribbon Skirt Day.\u00a0 Manitoba Sen. Mary Jane McCallum\u2019s bill to recognize the day every Jan. 4 passed in Parliament late last year. It was &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":102822,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3539],"tags":[5315],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/ribbon-skirt-day-milenio-stadium.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102821"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102826,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102821\/revisions\/102826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mileniostadium.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}