To the Native peoples out there.  What is the History of the ribbon shirt?
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I've been looking around the Web and really the women wear a Tear Dress while the men wear the Ribbon Shirt. So perhaps you were looking for the history of the Tear Dress?\n\n"This description is on the official Cherokee Nation website. They state, "The Cherokee Tear Dress is the standard traditional fashion for women, and the ribbon shirt stands for the men." - ewebtribe.com linked below\n\n"In Men's Traditional style, dancers wear one bustle of natural turkey, pheasant, or eagle feathers (where legal), in addition to buckskin attire, breastplates, and a headdress of deer or horse hair called a "roach." In contrast, Southern Straight dancers may wear a ribbon shirt, without a bustle, buckskin leggings, and the usual bone breastplate" from nanitcokeindians,org - linked below\n\n"While the Tear Dress has remained unique to the Cherokee, the male Ribbon Shirt has become familiar inter-tribal wear, especially seen on the pow-wow circuit.\n\nThe Ribbon Shirt is also made from calico fabric, with ribbon designs on the front and back. The sleeves are made similar to the Tear Dress..." from cherokee.org - linked below\n\nEdited to fix a bad link.
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The "nazi salute" was used long before Hitler was ever born, and is still used to this day in Austria.  When asked why they salute their flag with an upraised arm, they tend to reply "Why would we change a long-standing tradition?  Just because some two-bit painter's son made it unpopular in Germany?"  Outside the Germanic world it is always associated with Nazism.  Within the Germanic world I have a feeling it is much more complex.\n\nA similar thing happens with the white robes and pointy hoods.  While here in the US that will always be associated with the KKK, in Spain it has been the traditional garb of the brotherhoods of the various local churches.  When taking their holy statues and virgins on parade through the streets during holy week (Semana Santa), the men dress up in this garb as they have since medieval times.  I'm not sure, but I think the KKK actually borrowed that symbol from Catholic popular ceremony (ironically).\n\nThe point is, symbols have a much more complex and varied meaning once they are borrowed or lifted by social groups for specific social or political reasons.
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There you go:\n\nhttp://www.fgxr.org/officially-licensed-college-products-grosgrain-ribbon.html\nhttp://www.gowholesale.com/wholesale/wholesale%252520Ribbon/1.html
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William Shatner was actually wearing one back during the original Star Trek series, in 1969. I am sure that the "piece" got bigger and bigger as he aged. I actually think he had some pretty neat ones as they looked great on him.
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To me, sweetgrass was freely given by the Earth to her people. Sweetgrass traditions exist within several native tribes - and is not unique to a particular one. Sweetgrass grows freely and willingly, and often prarie fires catch it and smudge miles and miles. \n\nIn terms of "traditional pipes" it is necessary to distinguise between "Pipestone" Lakota pipes and other traditional pipes. \n\nMany tribal societies had traditions - some of them sacred, some less so - pertaining to ritual pipecarrying. This is ALSO true of many European tribal cultures that have been studied. It is not just the Native American to whom pipes were something that belonged. \n\n"Pipestone" pipes - those derived from the hills in the upper central US states - particularly a very sacred location - are traditional to the Lakota. There is some indication of their use by the neighboring tribes - but it is more limited. While I would not frown upon the neighboring tribes use of that "style" of pipe - I feel fairly comfortable saying that that is a Lakota Tradition. \n\nHowever I do feel that - ALL - traditional style pipes should be regarded as sacred objects. That does not however give me - or you - the right to decide who Spirit called to carry the pipe. That is between them and Spirit. I've seen Spirit used some strange means of accomplishing things before - and I try to keep that in mind when something doesnt fit the way I "know". \n\nSacred traditions - and the objects associated with them - really should never be sold if they are viewed for what they are. However, one must also look at how almost all religous have religious objects available for retail. An example of this is a catholic rosery. Another example is prayer beads. The list is long. And - though seemingly the least likely - it has often been the Native people that have brought the objects of native tradition up for sale. Living in poverty will make a person sell ANYTHING - and their soul is often high on the list. \n\nHowever - if we look at money are merely energy - and as retail as merely the exchange of congealed energy - then the flow of the universe is actually all in alignment. It IS sacred to put forth energy into those things of sacred value - and to those who present them to us. \n\nAgain - its not our place to judge how Spirit wishes to bring unlikely objects into the hands of unlikely individuals. Just as Hopi, Navajo and many other tribal leaders have met with other spiritual leaders such as the Dali Lama - it is ours to remember that it is a way of peace we seek. \n\nI dont know if this answers your question, but hopefully it brings you food for thought.
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I have read that it is donated to clothing drives and gets shipped overseas.  The anecdote is that there are a lot of African kids who are wearing "Buffalo Bills Superbowl Champs" t-shirts.
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All I know is it is part of their parade attire including the sashes. Good Luck!
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Yes. I am sick of judges saying you can't wear a shirt that might hurt someones feelings (the kid in CA who got in trouble for wearing an anti-gay shirt). Are we turning into wusses? What about all those people who wear anti-war or anti-American shirts. I don't like 'em, but I'm not crying to some judge.
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Try this book, it's very informative:\n\nThe Devil's Cloth: A History of Stripes and Striped Fabric\nby Michel Pastoureau\nISBN:0231123663 \n\n\nPublisher Comments:\nMichel Pastoureau´s lively study of stripes offers a unique and engaging perspective on the evolution of fashion, taste, and visual codes in Western culture. \nThe Devil´s Cloth begins with a medieval scandal. When the first Carmelites arrived in France from the Holy Land, the religious order required its members to wear striped habits, prompting turmoil and denunciations in the West that lasted fifty years until the order was forced to accept a quiet, solid color. The medieval eye found any surface in which a background could not be distinguished from a foreground disturbing. Thus, striped clothing was relegated to those on the margins or outside the social order — jugglers and prostitutes, for example — and in medieval paintings the devil himself is often depicted wearing stripes. The West has long continued to dress its slaves and servants, its crewmen and convicts in stripes. \n\nBut in the last two centuries, stripes have also taken on new, positive meanings, connoting freedom, youth, playfulness, and pleasure. Witness the revolutionary stripes on the French and United States flags. In a wide-ranging discussion that touches on zebras, awnings, and pajamas, augmented by illustrative plates, the author shows us how stripes have become chic, and even, in the case of bankers´ pin stripes, a symbol of taste and status. However, make the stripes too wide, and you have a gangster´s suit — the devil´s cloth indeed! \n\nReview:\n"Thinking of wearing that pinstriped suit for lunch with the boss? Or that fancy silk tie? Just be thankful that you didn't live a few hundred years ago, when a getup like that would not only have blown any chance for a raise but could very well have gotten you killed....It was this unlikely observation that prompted Mr. Pastoureau's book." Emily Eakin, The New York Times\nReview:\n"[A] unique little book." Forbes FYI\nReview:\n"The Devil's Cloth kept this reader at the edge of her seat." Seattle Times\nReview:\n"A very winning social- and art-history lesson." Adrienne Miller, Esquire (read the entire Esquire review)\nBook News Annotation:\nA specialist in medieval heraldry, Pastoureau (history of western symbols, Ecole Pratique des Hautes <'E>tudes, Sorbonne) began noticing a long time ago that in medieval documents, figures wearing striped clothes were, in one way or another, negative figures. He starts his account with the 13th century, chronicles the shift from horizontal to vertical and back between the 16th and 19th, and brings the story up through the 20th. Etoffe du Diable was published in 1991 by Editions du Seuil. The translation is by poet and author Jody Gladding \n\nAnnotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\nback to top\nProduct Details\nISBN:0231123663
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symbol--the pink ribbons symbolize or stand for something.
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Thank you very much for informing me.  I honestly did not have a clu as to why Indians wore them.  I assumed it meant that you were married, but you have given me knowledge into a deeper aspect of it.  I will respect it more now, when I see someone with that.  I appreciate your elaboration and information provided.  I think people ask a lot because they honestly don't know why.  Especially if they are not Indian, because mostly all cultures don't ever do that.
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ask the native americans who have been here for 30,000 years!!!!!!
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lol...some of the shirts are pretty funny...its weird i saw this bartender wearing the choose sex 1 a couple weeks ago, but i couldnt understand where she said got it. but the 1 problem with the site is the artwork needs a little fixing, i ordered the C.S. shirt but i dont know if i would of if i didnt see it in person..the C.S. takes up the whole back of the shirt, on the site it makes it look like an after thought. maybe they should use actual pics or something.
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its an age old custom which has mostly died out now.rem reading about it in history classes
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It originated in the 1630's and had a military origin. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necktie\n\nThey became popular as dress wear back then as they were more comfortable than the starched linen ruffs that were worn at the time.
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If you can't find one online, you can easily have one custom made at a trophy/team apparel store.  My in-laws owned one, and they were always doing custom shirts for me.
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I am not sure what you are asking.\n\nChristianity is much older than the modern necktie.