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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Native American elder’s waist-length hair was cut off while he was being treated for blood clots—and his family is furious. Relatives of Arthur Janis marched on UCHealth in Aurora, Colorado, this ...

In September, a Kansas woman received an email from a school administrator about her son’s hair. Her 8-year-old, a member of the Wyandotte Nation, had been growing his hair long, following the tribe’s ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) – An investigation is ...