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2025 Religious and Cultural Rights (Religious Freedom, Repatriation, Peyote, NAGPRA, Graduation) News Stories

Colville Tribes push back on graduation regalia bans in Central Washington schools (Source One News Washington) 5/12/2025

Tiverton, RI man can wear Apache headband in prison after court fight. What to know. (The Providence Journal) 5/6/2025

Graduation regalia: more Native students get green light to wear tribal regalia this year (Minnesota Public Radio News) 5/5/2025

New Mexico becomes 20th state to guarantee students’ right to wear regalia (ICT) 3/31/2025

New Mexico Governor signs bill protecting students’ right to wear regalia (The Grant County Beat) 3/19/2025

Wisconsin Tribes urge support for bills, including tribal regalia in school ceremonies (Wisconsin Public Radio) 3/13/2025

ProPublica updates its database of museums’ and universities’ compliance with federal repatriation law (ProPublica) 2/25/2025

Repatriation to Indigenous groups is more than law, it’s human rights − an archaeologist describes the day that lesson hit home (The Conversation) 2/12/2025

Bill introduced to protect wearing of traditional regalia during graduation introduced (Navajo Times) 2/3/2025

Fight for Native boys' remains on Army property tests strength of landmark federal law (HuffPost) 1/15/2025

10th annual repatriation conference to focus on new NAGPRA regulations (Native News Online) 1/13/2025

Michigan bill protecting Native students’ right to wear regalia sent to governor’s desk (Native News Online) 1/6/2025

Tribal objects returned to the Northern Arapaho Tribe (High Country News) 1/1/2025

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