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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Clovis Unified has reached an agreement with a Native American student who wants to wear a feather to his graduation. Christian Titman and his family say the feather has ...

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 ...

Acting on requests brought by Utah’s Utes and other American Indian tribes, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced it is loosening some restrictions on Native Americans’ ability to collect ...

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, ...

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In what could have passed for a break room, though curiously festooned with feathers, Robert Mesta rummaged inside one of the two plain white freezers. “Ah, here it is,” he said, withdrawing something ...