Leticia Bishop Beaded Cap Homecoming

Feathers Okay at Graduation, But No Beaded Caps!

Vincent Schilling
5/5/15
Graduating High School student Leticia Gonzales has been told she will not be allowed to wear her beaded graduation cap to her graduation ceremony by school officials at Bishop Uni...

North Dakota Natives Win Eagle Feather Fight for Graduating Students

ICTMN Staff
2/2/15
After conversations with the Native American Parent Committee, a more than 20-year-old policy at Grand Forks Public Schools is changing and Native American students will be allowed...

North Dakota Natives Fight for Right to Wear Eagle Feathers at Graduation

ICTMN Staff
1/23/15
For more than 20 years the three high schools within Grand Forks Public Schools have had a policy which says students are not allowed to include “personal additions” to their gradu...

From Videogames to Reality: Northern Ute Graduates from West Point

Simon Moya-Smith
7/3/14
He’d sit there as a kid, eyeing the TV, and once in a while, a U.S. Army commercial would zip across the screen. The gallantry, he thought. The discipline. The camaraderie...

Bruce Lee and John Mohawk Teach Native Graduates Educational Jiu Jitsu

Gyasi Ross
6/23/14
“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it.” —Bruce Lee It’s in our blood, family...

Plant the Seeds of Revolution: Counting Coup for a College Degree

Renee Holt
6/17/14

Dedicating this song ‘Commencement Day’ from the Blue Scholars of Seattle to “the class of two thousand whatever” throughout Indian country and all “the teachers who are underpaid” and love their students enough to keep on teaching....

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Eagle Feathers First Banned, Then Allowed at California Graduation

ICTMN Staff
6/16/14
In the days leading up to the June 5 graduation ceremony at Lenmoore High School in Lenmoore, California, administrators had banned the eight graduating Native American seniors fro...

Hindu Baccalaureate Service Includes Native American Prayer

ICTMN Staff
5/5/14
A unique baccalaureate service was held at the University of Nevada-Reno on April 27...

United Tribes Graduates Challenged to Continue Success

UTTC Release
12/26/13
This education you have is a tool for you and your family, and much more, says a Lakota/Dakota doctor who grew up at Pine Ridge. Dr...

Navajo Technical University Awards First Degrees as University

NTU Release
12/25/13
In spite of a snowstorm that swept the northern border of New Mexico and Arizona, Navajo Technical University awarded its first degrees as a university to over 50 students in a sma...

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