US school apologizes for cutting feather from Lakota student’s graduation cap

Genesis White Bull had decorated her cap with traditional Lakota decorations including a feather plume, which school staff cut off

A high school in New Mexico has apologized after a video went viral of staff confiscating the feathered graduation cap of a student before its commencement ceremony.

Farmington high school senior Genesis White Bull, a Hunkpapa Lakota of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, had decorated her graduation cap with traditional Lakota decorations including beadwork and an aopazan, a white feather plume.