#Teechallaclothing Fashion LLC This has certainly been true within my own family. My sister and my cousins have all learned how to sew or bead the Marco Regalado Wearing Rice Owls Football shirt but I will buy this shirt and I will love this Ojibwe way, thanks to the guidance of our talented aunties (intricate floral beadwork is an Ojibwe signature). Though I’ve never possessed a talent for craftwork, I have embraced Indigenous style in my own way. Over the past few years, I’ve worked with my mom and my aunties to design my own traditional garments, all of which are embedded with special meaning. The first thing we made together was in 2020. My mother, and my aunties Joan, Lee, and Tammy, and I decided to make my first traditional ribbon shirt. It was based on a shirt my grandmother had made for me as a kid, though we updated the ribbon colors to reflect who I am today (the blue, red, yellow, and white hues represent the favorite colors of my parents and grandparents). An image of a crane, embroidered onto the back, reflects my family’s crane clan. In Ojibwe culture, Indigenous people belong to one of seven clans, each one holding different responsibilities and qualities (the crane clan represents leadership.)
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