Tulsa Group Helps Decorate Graduation Caps For Native American Students

A group in Tulsa is beading graduation caps for high school students they don’t even know.

It’s an outreach of Tulsa’s Indian Healthcare Resource Center, and a class to teach people the craft.

“I've been beading, going on like four years, and I just started graduation caps last year,” said Dana Davis, one of the instructors.

It’s intricate work, with 14 beads per inch of thread and hundreds of strands around the border of each cap.

“I love doing it for students we don't know, but they're native and get a chance to have a beaded cap that was made with love,” said Cheryl Cohenour, who just started the class.

The process takes time, as much as a full day sometimes for a single cap to do just the border.

They've been at it five weeks, with a deadline coming to get caps in the mail, and start planning on how to do even more next year.