{"id":18190,"date":"2013-06-08T15:36:47","date_gmt":"2013-06-08T19:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=18190"},"modified":"2013-06-08T15:36:47","modified_gmt":"2013-06-08T19:36:47","slug":"native-american-student-denied-high-school-diploma-for-wearing-tribal-feather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2013\/06\/native-american-student-denied-high-school-diploma-for-wearing-tribal-feather\/","title":{"rendered":"Native American student denied high school diploma for wearing tribal feather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/alabama-high-school-student-denied-graduation-after-wearing-tribal-feather.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18191\" alt=\"Alabama-high-school-student-denied-graduation-after-wearing-tribal-feather\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/alabama-high-school-student-denied-graduation-after-wearing-tribal-feather.jpg?resize=490%2C274\" width=\"490\" height=\"274\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong>By Arturo Garcia<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">A high school graduate in Alabama is being denied her diploma after being fined $1,000 for wearing a feather reflecting her Native American heritage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s fair at all,\u201d 17-year-old Chelsey Ramer<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.local15tv.com\/news\/local\/story\/Student-Denied-Diploma-Fined-1000-for-Feather\/sPN4LgBVKkiw-wlWsN2eNQ.cspx\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">told WPMI-TV.<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u201cI feel like its discrimination.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Ramer, a member of the Poarch Creek Band of Indians, wore the feather while taking part in the graduation ceremony at Escambia Academy High School in defiance of school policy forbidding \u201cextraneous items\u201d from being worn without school permission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The school sent a contract for graduating seniors to sign before the May 23 event, but Ramer told the station she never signed it. Escambia is now withholding her diploma until she pays the fine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u201cAbout two months ago, me and the other Indian seniors from the graduating class asked our headmaster if we could wear the feathers on our caps,\u201d Ramer<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com\/2013\/05\/31\/poarch-creek-student-fined-wearing-eagle-feather-graduation-149646\" target=\"_blank\">t<span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">old Indian Country Today Media Network.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u201cShe told us \u2018no\u2019 and that if we did, she would pull us off the field.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">However, Ramer attended and walked in the ceremony without incident. Indian Country Today reported that the headmaster who denied Ramer\u2019s request, Betty Warren, has been replaced by David Walker, who coaches Escambia\u2019s girl\u2019s basketball team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u201cHe said if it was up to him, he would give me my diploma,\u201d Ramer said to Indian Country Today. \u201cBut he had to go through the board to get it approved.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2013\/06\/03\/native-american-student-denied-high-school-diploma-for-wearing-tribal-feather\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Fuente<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Arturo Garcia A high school graduate in Alabama is being denied her diploma after being fined $1,000 for wearing a feather reflecting her Native..<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[149,97],"tags":[228,197,357,227],"class_list":["post-18190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discrimination","category-us-news","tag-colonialism","tag-imperialism","tag-racism","tag-racist-oppression"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenix.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/alabama-high-school-student-denied-graduation-after-wearing-tribal-feather.jpg?fit=615%2C345&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}