Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BROKEN ARROW, Okla. (AP) — A Native American student was forced to remove an eagle feather prior to her high school graduation ...

An eagle feather is an important part of Native American culture, and the school attempted to erase that by taking away the student's regalia. A high school has come under fire after a Native American ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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July 15 (UPI) --After a years-long battle, the federal government is considering expanding protection from criminal prosecution to all "sincere religious believers" who use eagle feathers in ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 could require ...