Obama's Watch, first Permit to Shoot American Eagles
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Wyoming to kill up to two bald eagles for religious purposes is the
first of its kind ever issued to an American Indian tribe, a U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service official said Wednesday.
AP File Photo
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has given the OK for an American Indian tribe to kill two bald eagles for religious purposes.
The decision comes after the Northern Arapaho Tribe in Wyoming filed a
federal lawsuit alleging that the agency‘s refusal to allow them to do
so was a violation of tribal members’ religious freedom, the Associated
Press reported.
While no longer on the federal list of endangered or threatened
species, federal law prohibits the killing of bald eagles under the Bald
and Golden Eagle Protection Act. American Indians are able to apply for
eagle feathers or carcases to use in their ceremonies from a federal
repository. They can apply for permits to kill bald eagles as well,
though such permission is incredibly rare.
As in it's never happened before in HISTORY. AP is lying again!
According to the Associated Press, it’s been almost three years since
the Arapaho tribe applied for such a permit, and a lawyer for the tribe
said they believed it necessary to go to court in order to get one. The
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service granted the permit Friday.
Under the terms of the permit, the Northern Arapaho will be allowed
to kill up to two bald eagles off their reservation. A neighboring
tribe, the Eastern Shoshone Tribe, opposed the killing of eagles on
their shared reservation.
The Arapaho’s lawsuit, filed late last year, stems from a legal
battle after tribal member Winslow Friday killed a bald eagle without a
permit in 2005 to use in the tribe’s Sun Dance, the AP reported. A
federal judge dismissed the charges, saying it would have been pointless
for Friday to apply for a permit since they’re generally refused
anyway. Federal prosecutors appealed the decision and had Friday’s
criminal charge reinstated, to which he pleaded guilty and paid a fine.
“One of the goals of the current suit is to prevent any young men
like Winslow Friday from being prosecuted in the future for practicing
their traditional religious ceremonies,” Andy Baldwin, lawyer for the
tribe, told the AP.
In late 2007, senior tribe members appeared at a court hearing in
support of Friday. Nelson P. White Sr. — then a member of the Northern
Arapaho Business Council — said the birds American Indians have been
forced to get from repositories were rotten.
“That’s unacceptable,” White said at the time. “How would a non-Indian feel if they had to get their Bible from a repository?”
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Space Invader 2012/03/15 12:03:24Is there anything American symbol not sacred to this POS POTUS
An animal's life compared to paper......GOT IT NOT!!!! Dumb arse.
I wrote to PETA asking for their input....dead silence. Ingrid has seen my last $50/year. Join me!
But here is the real tragedy:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne...
And this:
http://www.courthousenews.com...
People do you realize the Turkey was almost selected as the National bird?
What would we do at Thanksgiving?
From 1917 to 1952, at least 128,000 eagles were killed under an Alaskan Fish and Wildlife bounty program because fishermen thought they were loosing to many fish, causing a decline in salmon. Some areas in Alaske were so populated with Eagles, the fishermen there were being swamped on their fishing boats by Eagles while they pulled in their nets with Salmon in them.
30-40 Eagles at a time would swoop down and take whole salmon out of the nets before they could pull them in, sometimes taking up to 50 fish a session.
So the government issued a bounty on eagle feet, paying 50 cents for every two feet of an eagle, and tens of thousands were killed wholesale
The Bald Eagle is a sacred bird to Native American cultures, and its feathers, like those of the Golden Eagle, are central to many religious and spiritual customs among Native Americans. Eagles are considered spiritual messengers between gods and humans by some cultures.
The white man has killed more eagles than any Native American Indian ever did, and we didn't use them for any religious purpos...
From 1917 to 1952, at least 128,000 eagles were killed under an Alaskan Fish and Wildlife bounty program because fishermen thought they were loosing to many fish, causing a decline in salmon. Some areas in Alaske were so populated with Eagles, the fishermen there were being swamped on their fishing boats by Eagles while they pulled in their nets with Salmon in them.
30-40 Eagles at a time would swoop down and take whole salmon out of the nets before they could pull them in, sometimes taking up to 50 fish a session.
So the government issued a bounty on eagle feet, paying 50 cents for every two feet of an eagle, and tens of thousands were killed wholesale
The Bald Eagle is a sacred bird to Native American cultures, and its feathers, like those of the Golden Eagle, are central to many religious and spiritual customs among Native Americans. Eagles are considered spiritual messengers between gods and humans by some cultures.
The white man has killed more eagles than any Native American Indian ever did, and we didn't use them for any religious purposes either, nope, we just let them rot where we killed them, that's a fact!
I see no reason to not let these Native Americans practice their religion by killing 'two' eagles.
Eat Robins and Chicka-dees in your neighborhoods. Don't bother to cook them. You won't get infected. Buy more guns also
Just buy more guns, don't trust anyone.
OH since the ovomit admin gave the ok PETA will not retaliate against him.. What a bunch of pompous asses they are, bow down a little further so you could kiss his ass as well.