Riverside Beading Club members Allison Grosskop and Emily McClure work on a cap as teachers gather after class to make beaded mortar boards for native students to wear for graduation.

A Native American student was told she couldn't walk at graduation due to her bead-decorated cap, which her father spent a week hand-threading. The beads, an important aspect of her heritage, ...

During graduation season many, jokingly or grudgingly, recite the Robert Orben quote: "A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical ...