Video of the feather on her graduation cap!!!

[Omaha Steve]

Story and video link below. X post in GD





Story: http://www.scrippsmedia.com/kmtv/news/South-High-graduate-soars-with-important-cultural-symbols-after-OPS-administrators-reverse-policy-decision---304365251.html

Video: http://kmtv.video.jrn.com/?ndn.trackingGroup=90837&ndn.siteSection=ndn&ndn.videoId=29105390&freewheel=90837&sitesection=ndn&vid=29105390

South High graduate soars with important cultural symbols after OPS administrators reverse policy decision

By Kelly Bartnick. CREATED May 19, 2015
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (KMTV) – Lily Tamayo walked onto the stage at Mid-America Center Tuesday night to celebrate a milestone. The Omaha South High School teen was one of about 450 graduates sent out into the world before a packed house of parents, school board members and faculty and friends.

Tamayo walked in traditional Native American footwear. Beaded earrings fell just below the line of a scarlet red graduation cap that was also hand beaded with a plume attached to the top. She smiled as she accepted her diploma, family and friends cheered too. It was a happy moment—a stark contrast to a day earlier, when Tamayo’s friends and family pleaded for a policy exemption to allow the traditional ornaments on her cap.

“The arrows all represent me moving forward in my journey in life and becoming a woman and graduation,” Tamayo said about the beadwork lining two edges of the half-finished cap—A product of a family scramble after school administrators reversed their ban, allowing her to wear the traditional regalia.

South High administrators originally said the ornamentation was against school policy, classifying the artwork as “bling.” Her sister, friends, and community members fought back against the policy in front of school board members Monday night, detailing the eagle feather’s significance.

FULL story at link. After college she will return to the reservation to do social work!!!