EVANSTON, Ill. -- Nimkii Curley, a senior at Evanston Township High School, had been looking forward to graduation Sunday. And just as he was about to walk the stage, his plans were halted. He was ...
“How disrespectful that was, in terms of those of us, and how we as native people look at an eagle plum. You know and what it represents,” said Senator Benny Shendo, (D- Jemez Pueblo). It’s a video ...
(WXMI) — A cap and gown are the traditional garb on Graduation Day, and sometimes these outfits are accessorized. Think special cords, honor stoles, and even a decorated cap. Now in Michigan, a new ...
Several Billings high schoolers went to Helena to testify in favor of a bill that would allow them to wear culturally significant objects, like beaded graduation caps. Apparently they made an ...
A school official at Farmington High School speaks with graduate Genesis White Bull, a Hunkpapa Lakota of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, before taking away her personalized graduation cap and ...
When Kamryn Yanchick graduated, she hoped to decorate her cap with a beaded pattern in honor of her Native American heritage. Whether she could was up to her Oklahoma high school. Administrators told ...
A high school has come under fire after a Native American student was forced to remove a sacred item from her graduation cap. In a TikTok, content creator and activist LakotaWiyanGrace argued that the ...
FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) — A Lakota student’s traditional feather plume was cut off her graduation cap during her high school commencement ceremony this week in northwestern New Mexico. It was during the ...
FARMINGTON, N.M. (KRQE) – Outrage is brewing on social media after a Farmington High School graduate was told to remove her cap adorned with Native American beading and a feather. Video surfaced ...