decrementsf t1_iujr3bg wrote on October 31, 2022 at 9:17 PM

Reply to comment by Informal-Ideal-6640 in TIL the United States government has a National Eagle Repository, which provides Eagle feathers and parts to Native Americans for cultural and religious purposes. by tranquilrage73

My argument is to return dignity. Insulting to treat adults like children to be protected and coddled in the world. Dependency is a mental prison of another design. The tyrannical mother of affluent families smother and control their children through such dependencies, resulting in stunted growth and infantile princelings.

SaxyOmega90125 t1_iujsd01 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 9:26 PM

That's not going to happen as long as Native Americans are caged in tiny reserves.

A solution that might be preferable to this would be to allow Natives to gather bird of prey feathers and remains on land currently claimed by the US proper. That being said, these eagles are already shedding feathers while in these rehabilitation and reintroduction programs. Would it be better to waste those feathers than to give them freely to Native American groups that will use them?

horsemagicians t1_iuk73zi wrote on October 31, 2022 at 11:20 PM

Because allowing that creates a risk of the birds being hunted just for feathers. Being native doesn’t automatically make them some mystical group of people that watch over the land. It’s a group of people just like any other group of people. And when you get a group of people inevitably you’ll get assholes. And in this case those assholes will decide to shoot birds for feathers and sell them. Where I am we have different tribes fighting for and against coal mining on their lands. Some see dollar signs some see protecting nature.