For Native students and their families, planning for graduation includes determining if their school graduation policies are in accord with the right of Indigenous people to wear traditional clothing or religious and cultural items to their graduation ceremony.
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.
Last fall, Charity Goodall-Smith began making arrangements for her son, Tacoda Goodall, to wear an eagle feather and beaded cap at his graduation from Midway High School
