A Native American student was told she couldn't walk at graduation due to her bead-decorated cap, which her father spent a week hand-threading. The beads, an important aspect of her heritage, ...
Nyché Andrew at her high school graduation from Service High School in Anchorage, Alaska. Credit: Brian Adams for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our ...
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 High School officials confiscated Genesis White Bull’s beaded graduation cap as she and her classmates stood for the national anthem during their May 13 graduation, a move that sparked an ...
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 ...
What happened to Tvli Birdshead has happened so many times before. Every year, it seems, some school somewhere in America tells Native students that they can’t wear their tribal regalia to graduation.