Indigenous People Are Wearing Kokum Scarves In Support Of Ukraine

Indigenous People Are Wearing Kokum Scarves In Support Of Ukraine

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Watch VideoWhen Russian forces started dropping bombs on Ukraine, Mallory Yawnghwe remembered her grandmother wearing the brightly colored floral scarves that many Ukrainian and Indigenous women wear. They’re now affectionately known as kokum, or grandmother scarves.

Yawnghwe said the scarves were gifted to her people when...

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