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 ...

A student is suing her Oklahoma school district after educators allegedly damaged a sacred feather stuck in her graduation cap. Lena Black, who is Otoe-Missouria and Osage, filed the lawsuit Monday ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Picking up and keeping feathers is illegal in the US, and the reason why has a surprising amount to do with hats.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A Native American man spoke out at a recent Rutherford County Board of Education meeting to allow his son to wear an eagle feather in his graduation cap. Stephen White Eagle ...

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 ...

North Carolina lawmakers could allow Native American students to wear culturally significant objects such as bird feathers and plumes during graduation ceremonies. The state House Federal Relations ...