CEDAR CITY, Utah (AP) — She walked up a red carpet and crossed a stage to accept her diploma wearing an eagle feather beaded onto her cap that her mother had gifted her. Amryn Tom graduated this week ...

“Native Americans Discovered Columbus,” the T-shirt reads in bright yellow and white letters. Just below the bold statement, the brand name signs off on this act of Indigenous resistance: “OXDX.” ...

Nyché Andrew, who is Yup’ik and Iñupiaq, gives the land acknowledgement, which asks the audience to think about those who first lived, and still live, on the land, at her graduation from Service High ...

A bill protecting the rights of Native American students in Michigan to wear regalia during graduation ceremonies has been sent to Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s desk. HB4854, first introduced in the ...

HELENA – Aspen Many Hides recalled being in tears as she stood in line five years ago waiting to receive her high school diploma in Polson. Her mother was frantically trying to remove the beads she ...

Georgia Blackwood, an eighth grade student at South Middle School in Lawrence, testifies before a Kansas Senate committee in support of a bill that prohibit state agencies and local governments from ...

“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 ...

Indigenous students would be allowed to wear tribal regalia at graduation ceremonies under a bill introduced in the state Legislature. While state law provides some protections for a student’s ...

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 ...