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 orders he’s talking about most often come from Native American tribes. They can legally possess eagle feathers and parts for use in their ceremonies. Some of the feather requests are so ...

(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 ...