Eagle feathers are woven into Native American culture. Beyond powwow regalia, they’re presented to high school graduates, used in marriage ceremonies and buried with the dead. A government repository ...

The case focuses on golden and bald eagles killed on the Flathead Indian Reservation. Prosecutors say there is a thriving illegal trade in eagle feathers despite a law enforcement crackdown in the ...

(National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian) For many Americans, the eagle feather headdress is a generic symbol of Native America indivisible from the narrative of the wild west and ...

Joe Medicine Crow was born October 27, 1913 on the Crow Indian reservation near Lodge ... yellow-painted eagle feather provided by a Sun Dance medicine man to shield him from harm.