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image for Oklahoma school officials tried to rip a Native American student's sacred feather off her cap at graduation, lawsuit alleges

A Native American student alleges that school staff tried to rip a sacred eagle plume off her graduation cap.

In a lawsuit, Lena' Black says the employees damaged her feather during the scuffle.

Black says she had a panic attack — but the teachers still grabbed at her sacred plume.

Oklahoma school officials tried to rip a Native American student's sacred eagle feather off her cap at her high school graduation last year, the teen alleges in a new lawsuit.

She alleges that the two staff members ignored her and tried to rip the eagle plume off her cap.

The sacred plume was "physically and ceremonially damaged" in the encounter, the lawsuit alleges.

Black's lawsuit says the school official who approves those requests was on leave at the time of Black's graduation. »

Rwanda’s Health-Care Success Holds Lessons for Others

Authored by thinkglobalhealth.org

Three developments stand out: low-cost community-based health insurance plans, national investments in rural health posts, and ramped-up foreign collaborations.

90 Percent More than 90 percent of Rwanda’s people had some kind of health insurance.

Owing to these efforts, in 2020, more than 90 percent of Rwanda’s people had some kind of health insurance. »

Russia begins talking about peace again, seeking "recognition of territorial arrangements" and cessation of Ukrainian forces' actions

Authored by pravda.com.ua

Source: Galuzin in an interview with Kremlin-aligned news agency TASS; Andrii Yermak, Head of the Ukrainian President’s Office, on Telegram.

The new territorial arrangements that have emerged through exercising the right of peoples to self-determination must be recognised.".

Quote: "There is no force that will make Ukrainian society and the state leadership talk to the Russians today while Russian troops are on our territory.". »