WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice announced a new policy broadening and clarifying the right of Native Americans to possess eagle feathers and other parts of the birds that they consider sacred ...

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 ...

Updated March 7 with House vote approving the bill. North Carolina lawmakers could allow Native American students to wear culturally significant objects such as bird feathers and plumes during ...

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 ...

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 ...

U.S. Fish and Wildlife officials threatened a Native Alaskan artist with felony violations of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the Lacey Act for adorning a hat and headdress with feathers from a ...

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 ...

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Christian Titman walked into Lamonica Stadium for Clovis High’s graduation ceremony in June, 2015, in Clovis, Calif. The Native American student wore an eagle feather to graduation after resolving a ...