FARMINGTON, N.M. — Farmington High School graduate Genesis White Bull had to take off her beaded and feathered cap and wear a plain one for her graduation ceremony. Video of the incident is going ...
A Native American student was told she couldn't walk at graduation due to her bead-decorated cap, which her father spent a week hand-threading. The beads, an important aspect of her heritage, ...
A school official at Farmington High School speaks with graduate Genesis White Bull, a Hunkpapa Lakota of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, before taking away her personalized graduation cap and ...
FARMINGTON, N.M. (KRQE) – Outrage is brewing on social media after a Farmington High School graduate was told to remove her cap adorned with Native American beading and a feather. Video surfaced ...
FARMINGTON, N.M. (KRQE) – Farmington Municipal Schools is now apologizing for an incident at a graduation ceremony earlier this week. During the Farmington High School graduation on Monday, two staff ...
Genesis White Bull, a Hunkpapa Lakota of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, was sitting at the Farmington High School graduation ceremony with her graduating class on Monday, when two school faculty ...
Every few years, it seems, a student is banned from participating in a school’s graduation ceremony – usually for something that would have made the ceremony more special, had it been allowed. Schools ...
Emalyce Kee, a Navajo and Rosebud Sioux, holds her 2021 beaded graduation cap Wednesday, May 25, 2022, in Cedar City, Utah. Kee was told last year at Cedar City High School that she couldn't wear ...