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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 ...

MCALLEN — When Apache holy man Robert Soto performs at American Indian powwows, it is with some indignation: He's been left to dance with turkey feathers. The revered golden eagle feathers that once ...

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 ...

DENVER (Reuters) - The U.S. government is allowed to bar non-Native Americans from using eagle feathers for religious purposes, even for rituals that imitate or borrow from Indian culture, a federal ...

SAN FRANCISCO – A Native American student wore an eagle feather that he considers sacred to his high school graduation ceremony after resolving a court fight with a California school district.

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, ...

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 ...