Opinion. The most-read story on Native News Online this National Native American Heritage Month has not been about celebrating Indigenous heritage but is about how one Lakota elder’s culture was ...

This article was originally published in Kansas Reflector. TOPEKA — Officials at R.V. Haderlein Elementary in Girard forced an 8-year-old Native American boy to cut his hair, despite objections that ...

Across cultures around the world, hair holds different meanings. In African American history, as a product of the transatlantic slave trade, braided hair came to serve as everything from a means of ...

The Carlisle Indian Industrial School had not yet held its first class when Matavito Horse and Leah Road Traveler were taken there in October 1879, ...

An 8-year-old boy was forced to cut his hair to comply with his Kansas elementary school’s dress code, despite his mother explaining to the school that his long hair was following his Native American ...

MISSION, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas grade school forced an 8-year-old Native American boy to cut off his hair after he grew it out for cultural reasons, the American Civil Liberties Union said. In a letter ...

AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) – An investigation is underway to determine who cut the waist-length hair off a Native American man while he was undergoing medical treatment in Colorado. The family said they ...

An Army major is celebrating one year of having earned approval to wear his hair and tribe-specific regalia items in a way that honors his Native American heritage during appropriate service ...

Here’s what the Texas Department of Criminal Justice is terrible at keeping out of prisons: cell phones. Here’s what TDCJ is awesome at keeping out: dead people’s hair. Native American inmate William ...

The ACLU is demanding the school change their dress code policy, claiming it violates religious freedom as it was applied to the young student. An 8-year-old boy was forced to cut his hair to comply ...