A New Mexico teacher lost her job after she allegedly called one Native American student a “bloody Indian” and clipped another’s braid, officials said.

The Albuquerque Public School District fired Cibola High School teacher Mary Jane Eastin on Nov. 30, KOB reported. She had been placed on paid leave while the district conducted an investigation.

The alleged incident occurred during a language arts class on Halloween. Eastin, who was dressed as the 19th-century voodoo queen Marie Laveau for the holiday, asked student MacKenzie Johnson, “Now what are you supposed to be? A bloody Indian?” MacKenzie, who is Navajo, told KRQE.

Johnson was dressed in a Little Red Riding Hood costume and had a bloody paw mark on her face, her mother, Shannon Johnson, told the Albuquerque Journal.

The teacher didn’t stop there, MacKenzie said.

She told Teen Vogue that Eastin questioned them about a Marie Laveau documentary after showing it to the class. If students got a question correct, she gave them a piece of candy. If they got it wrong, she gave them dog food, which some of the students reportedly ate.

At one point, Eastin allegedly approached another Native American student, who wasn’t named, and snipped off the tip of her braid.

“My heart stopped, my eyes were huge and … you could hear the whole class gasp,” Mackenzie said. “I didn’t even know if it was real. She’s not even supposed to touch a student, and she cut off [my friend’s] hair … and sprinkled it on the desk.”

Navajo Nation president Russell Begaye called on the school to take action, saying it should conduct mandatory cultural sensitivity training for employees as well as issue a public apology, the Albuquerque Journal reported.

The ACLU released a statement highlighting the harm Eastin inflicted on the students.

“With respect to Student 2, anyone with even an iota of cultural awareness knows that in Native American cultures hair is sacred — particularly for women. Some Native American tribes hold hair cutting ceremonies and some only cut hair to honor the loss of loved ones,” reads the statement.

“Beyond that, the cruel implications of Ms. Eastin’s actions harken back to the era of Native American boarding schools, when the cutting of Native students’ hair was a form of punishment inflicted by school masters in a racist attempt to strip children of their heritage and culture,” the statement continued.

Shannon Johnson says the school’s decision to fire the teacher was a “short-term win.”

“It brought a sense of relief for my family knowing she is no longer part of APS to hurt another child,” she told the Albuquerque Journal.