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 ...

A Native American tribe leader has been threatened with time in prison for his religious use of eagle feathers, and his case is currently before federal court. "This is a particularly egregious case ...

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 ...

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 ...

Brianna Tortalita vividly recalls the flood of emotions that overwhelmed her when a tribal elder gifted her an eagle feather alongside her sister. "It's really spiritual," said the senior at Century ...

LOS ANGELES — A California school district, facing a civil rights lawsuit, has agreed to drop its objection to a Native American student wearing an eagle feather at his high school graduation ceremony ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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, ...