The Public Schools Native American Parent Committee voted Tuesday to formally ask district administration to consider allowing Indigenous students to wear traditional beadwork on their graduation caps ...

An 8-year-old Native American boy in Kansas was forced to cut his hair to comply with his elementary school’s hair policy, according to the Kansas American Civil Liberties Union, which called ...

Dan Weaver, UCHealth’s vice president of communications, said the patient was not identified as someone with Native American roots before hospital staff cut his hair. “Our medical team acted ...

In Indigenous cultures, hair holds a significant ... to eliminate traditional American Indian ways of life and replace them with white, Eurocentric culture. Native children were taken from their ...

As a kid, a disagreement with her mother over the length of her hair opened a door to learning about her Native American ancestry. She wrote a children's book called "My Powerful Hair." ...