Sofia Santellan laid a piece of fabric flat on a table in the Indigenous Student Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
She grabbed a tool that looked similar to a pizza cutter to trim away the white edges. Then, the first-year student carefully measured the spacing between pink and purple ribbons and glued them horizontally on one side of the fabric.
Kalista and Maekayla Cadotte watched Santellan, guiding her through each step of creating a ribbon skirt…