I know that not all first nations or Métis or Inuit do use the ribbon skirt the way we use it in our community. Within our community, we just wanted to ensure that the people, the schools, our government, our regional authorities and the Good Spirit School Division that we use the ribbon skirt for our children, for our grandmothers and our mothers.
Women are the very most important part of our communities, and in order for them to identify themselves as the homemakers of the communities, they wear these skirts at the ceremonies and the traditional activities and at home if they can, so that's what we wanted to instill. We're not using this to do any kind of assimilation with the federal government or any other first nation or Métis or Inuit community. It's just something that we did as a community along with the family to bring a positive outward appearance of our nation to our community and to educate the people about our traditions. We left it at that.