Well, at one time or another the savages killed most everything else they came in contact with including each other. Why not the Eagle.
I always thought that racism was wrong.
But, if your skin is red; and your family background is Native American; then apparently it’s ok to have a set of laws, benefits and entitlements that are forbidden to me; because my skin color and parentage is different.
The sad part is, that even with laws, benefits and entitlements given to this group - they have not prospered. These laws, benefits and entitlements have only enslaved them further, replacing responsibility, accomplishments, education and motivation with dependance and a culture of entitlement.
Why can’t they just pick up some eagle carcasses around the wind turbines instead?
Rather than killing two birds with one stone, Obama’s wind power is killing birds by the thousands with no stones.
One nation.
Two kinds of political rights.
Good for them.
Eagles are not endangered. To the tribes, they are sacred. Not a bit of the eagle will be wasted. I say, let them go for it.
AND leave the rest of the religions alone too.
This is an atrocity....kill those savages!
Whoops....already been there...done that
I tell u what
For every dead eagle they clean up some junk cars and restrooms in their reservation highway stops
We’ll call it even
What do you bet they have no plans to use a hand made bow and arrow with flint heads. No they will use a white mans gun.
ML/NJ
Perhaps in Canada and Alaska the bald eagles are as numerous as crows but not so much in the lower 48 -
In the James River area of VIrginia, they were just about extinct, and now up to around 240-250 breeding pairs. Each pair can lay from 1-3 (3 and occasionally 4 have been seen but are somewhat unusual) eggs, from these hatchlings there is only a 50% survivial rate for those making it to 5 years, which is the earliest that a bald eagle is able to breed.
Given those numbers, it does make me sick that someone can claim the right to kill them. That’s just my opinion. We have several converging rivers in the Dayton area, but no eagles have been seen in many years. Around Lake Erie, I understand there are some. Where we used to summer in Northern Michigan, a pair would come each year (in the 60s) but none have been seen in that area in years.
I guess that even our national symbol has to bend over (and die) for vocal minorities.
I love my country, but eagles are glorified buzzards.
Ohhh noes!!!! Two bald eagles!!
They are very abundant around us, here in southeast Wyoming. We live along the North Platte. We see pairs of them all the time.
So they are issued a couple of permits, why is that a problem? Good for the Indians/Native Americans, keeping traditions alive and passing them on to the their children.
I don’t think it’s a racial thing, I think it’s a traditional religious thing.
By a coincidence, I just reread some of Tony Hillerman’s Navajo mystery stories, including “The First Eagle,” which involves a Hopi religious ceremony that requires trapping an eagle. (Wait under in a shelter covered with brush, stick a rabbit out with a rope tied around it, wait until the eagle drops on the rabbit, then pull in the rope and throw a blanket over the eagle.)
They’ve been doing this for a long time, and it’s a basic part of their traditions. A lot more eagles are killed nowadays by “green” windmills.
As for making an exception to the laws for Indians, this is probably on a reservation, where U.S. laws still apply, but where they also converge with Indian laws and customs.
I happen to be Sioux and a proud owner of an eagle feather that was awarded to me for my military service. The people I know who use eagle feathers in religious and cultural ceremonies get them from the federal repository in Colorado which has a huge inventory primarily because of road kill.
There’s no valid reason for any tribe to be killing eagles for any religious ceremony and I’m surprised and outraged that they were given permission.
Oh, and stow the racist nonsense, my fellow freepers.
Ritualistic animal sacrifice is now permissible under the law in America?
Those witches and voodoo priests that like to skin puppies are going to want their turn.