Cenk Uygur
@TheYoungTurks·6.5M subscribers·72.8K videos
Teen Banned From Displaying Native American Culture At Graduation
Posted
May 24, 2015
Views
112,424
Likes
2,326
Comments
1,531
Engagement
3.43%
May 24, 2015
112,424
2,326
1,531
3.43%
Every word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
5:36Now Playing"In what’s become somewhat of an annual controversy, a high school is refusing to allow a Native American senior to wear a sacred eagle feather at graduation.
“It made me really upset because it made me feel like I have to hide who I am,” Waverly Wilson, a senior at Lakes High School in Lakewood, Wash., told KIRO-TV. She was referring to the principal’s initial suggestion that she wear the feather under her gown, rather than on the tassel of her cap, as she had wanted to do. Later, when Wilson was told she could wear the feather, a gift from her uncle, as a hair ornament, the student said she would not accept the compromise. “It’s not an ornament,” she said. “It’s so much more than that. It’s representing who I am, and what all I have worked for.”
Earlier this year, school districts in Oklahoma and North Dakota also told Native American students they could not wear eagle feathers at their commencement ceremonies. Similar cases made headlines in 2013 — most notably that of Chelsey Ramer, whose Alabama private school attempted to fine her $1,000 for wearing an eagle feather on her mortarboard after being warned not to do so."
Becca Frucht (), Karamo Brown () and Ana Kasparian () discuss on The Young Turks. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
*Read more here
•••
Go to for a free trial and help us out while snacking out!
•••
Get The Young Turks Mobile App Today!
Download the iOS version here
Download the Android version here
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.
