(CP)-It’s not uncommon for Claire Tuckanow to hear a sewing machine whirring in the background while she works inside Regina’s mâmawêyatitân centre. The Métis-Cree woman from Okanese First Nation says it’s usually one of the three dozen young people she’s been working with to make their own ribbon skirts. “They’re like, ‘Can we just come and make a ribbon skirt?'” said Tuckanow. “It’s beautiful to see that.” Tuckanow is a co-ordinator with the Regina non-profit Growing Young Movers, which looks to mentor youth living on the margins. It was recently approved for a grant to help set the wheels in motion for a ribbon skirt regalia library in the community centre. Once it’s up and running, Tuckanow said, youth will be able to borrow ribbon skirts and ribbon shirts for…
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