Tag: Hair Cutting

• Via IndianCountryToday.com: Houska: Native American Hair is a Religious Right

  An excerpt: Graduation season. Lately my newsfeed has been a steady stream of smiling Native graduates, clad in beaded mortarboards, eagle feathers, and the beautiful adornments of their cultures. But with the season has also come a litany of stories involving students fighting their schools and administrators for the right to wear the sacred objects…

  June 1, 2015

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  AIRFA, Culture, Dine, Hair Cutting, Opinion Piece, Religious Freedom, School Administration, Tara Houska

• Huff Post: Native American Child Reportedly Sent Home From School Because Of Long Hair

  A Native American child was reportedly sent home early from his first day of Kindergarten last week because officials said his long hair conflicted with the school’s dress code. Malachi Wilson, 5, does not receive haircuts because it is against his religion as a member of the Navajo Nation, the child’s mother told a local…

  September 3, 2014

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  Culture, Early childhood education, Education, Hair Cutting, Native American, Native Americans