Students across the U.S. often sport flower leis or flashy sashes at graduation with little controversy. But the rules governing tribal regalia at high school graduations have emerged.
In Utah, Paiute Chairwoman Corrina Bow brought the issue to state lawmakers after last year's two Iron County incidents. The district had no formal rules prohibiting Native American students from donning regalia.
Emalyce Kee, who is Navajo and Rosebud Sioux, was one of the two southern Utah students told not to wear a beaded cap or plumes to her Cedar City High School graduation ceremony last year. She did it anyway. "I hadn't felt that powerful before that moment, standing up with my diploma, with my Native cap on and then shaking my principal’s hand," Kee said., Kee and her mother, Valerie Glass, said it stuck with them how the principal had argued beaded caps would set a precedent to allow all students to decorate their graduation attire.
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