Graduating high school students and families should start preparing now to help ensure that they can wear eagle feathers during their commencement ceremony.
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The Walns asked the court to declare it illegal to ban Native American graduating students from expressing their academic achievement and religious beliefs through beaded caps and eagle feathers or plumes.
Update August 2020: In August of 2020, Tacoda Goodall and Charity Goodall-Smith and the Midway Independent School District resolved this case through settlement. To
Today, the Sapulpa School District agreed to allow Liseanne Yazzie to wear her traditional moccasins during her high school graduation. Initially, the school district
A Native American student will be allowed to wear an eagle feather on his cap during his high school graduation ceremony after reaching a settlement agreement with the
Last month, NARF successfully advocated on behalf of graduating Native American students in Grand Forks, North Dakota who wish to wear eagle feathers during their upcoming