Shasta County honored high school graduates with Native heritage on Thursday, gifting them with hand-sewn sashes and eagle feathers to celebrate their right of passage. The 2022 Native graduating ...
Updated March 7 with House vote approving the bill. North Carolina lawmakers could allow Native American students to wear culturally significant objects such as bird feathers and plumes during ...
BROKEN ARROW, Okla. (AP) — A Native American student was forced to remove an eagle feather prior to her high school graduation ceremony in northeastern Oklahoma. Broken Arrow student Lena’ Black, who ...
Steve Cadue, Kickapoo elder and past tribal chair, speaks during a ceremony for Native American Student Services graduates on May 17, 2023. In the first-ever ceremony of its kind for the Lawrence ...
Native American students will have the legal right to wear bird feathers and other culturally significant items at public high school graduations in North Carolina. The state Senate unanimously passed ...
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — America’s golden eagles face a rising threat from a black market for their feathers used in Native American powwows and other ceremonies, according to wildlife officials, ...
Christian Titman, center, looks into the sun wearing a feather as he and his graduating class enter Clovis High’s Lamonica Stadium in June 2015 in Clovis, Calif. North Carolina lawmakers are requiring ...