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Teacher queues up powwow song during formal prom, stirring white students to make ‘mockery of our tradition’
Parental pushback spurs Flasher High School to seek cultural awareness training. On the morning after spring prom, Nicole Alkire woke up to a text from her teenage daughter, a junior at Flasher High School. When she clicked on a link her daughter sent her, she saw a video of Native cultural misappropriation at the prom night dance.
Dancing at Flasher prom stirs controversy
FLASHER, N.D. (KFYR) - Over the weekend, Flasher Public Schools released a statement that administrators had been made aware of some students dancing at prom in a way offensive to Native American culture. Some parents commented that the dances were hurtful to community members, while administrators apologized on behalf of the students.
Mott man’s ND book collection includes more than 14,000 titles
MOTT, N.D. (KFYR) - The thing about being from North Dakota is that wherever we go, we can usually find a connection back to our state. We like to say, ‘All roads lead to North Dakota.’ And all books about North Dakota lead to a Mott man’s home library.
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