After nearly 250 years as a symbol, the bald eagle is finally the official flying of the United States

This year, many do this with pride and hope. Ballow eagle It is now the official US bird, nearly 250 years after its first use as a newly established nation that has been used political today.

“The eagle finally gets the respect it deserves. Perhaps when the nation looks at the eagle in this way, there will be a fewer division,” said Jim Thunder Hook. He is the Director of Culture and Language in Dakota in the Indian Pyrerie Island community, and he is young MDEWanderon Suux A group on the banks of the Mississippi River in Minnesota.

This widespread extension of water is framed from the tested deception is the territorial eagle lands. The size of the Minnesota population of white birds, white and exclusive, the exclusive of North America is second after being Alaska.

The legislation that Eagle He came from members of the Congress delegation in Minnesota. Federal law recognizes the centralization of eagles in most of the “spiritual life and the sacred systems of the original peoples”, and a similar version of it at the National Eagle Center in Abasha, Minnesota, 40 miles (65 km) from the Prayeri Island community, which is advancing with the center in Igel care.

“If I grew up in the United States, the eagles were part of your daily life,” he said Tiffany Pleehn, who is supervised by the position of bird welfare at the center. “Everyone has a type of connection.”

Fierce symbols of power and spiritual lifting

The Bald Eagle, its wings and its widespread trends, has sparked the large seal of the United States since 1782, and appears on the covers of the passport, a $ 1 bill, the military badge, and the number of different images in pop culture.

But a prolific mosque of eagle souvenirs and headquarters and Abasha recently realized that while the United States had an official animal (bison) and Zahra (the rose), the eagle did not get an official balance. Under the auspices of many legislators in Minnesota invoice To treat this, then the signature of Joe Biden was officially Joe Biden in December.

With its huge wings and strict curved click, bald eagles are widely used as symbols of strength and strength. In fact, they spend 95 % of their day high in the trees, although when they hunted they can discover a rabbit 3 miles (5 km), they said.

For many indigenous Americans, the high eagle is much more; He delivers their prayers to the Creator and even mediates on their behalf.

“He went to speak with the Creator to make things right.”

A sign of life features with eagle feathers

Ericsson and dozens of other high school graduates received the bald eagle feather at the early July celebration of the river on the island of Bariri.

Thunder Hawk said that prayer in the language of Dakota urges high school graduates and graduates who receive higher education levels “to always remember who you are and from where did you come.”

Then they lined up and tied one of the relatives a feather – traditionally on the left side, the side of the heart – as the tribal members sang and forgiveness To celebrate them.

“It seems as if I had passed a new step of life,” said Jiviona Pak.

She grew up on the island of Prayeri, her mother remembered enthusiastically indicating every eagle.

“It was only sincerely screaming in my face,” the eagle! “It is just a special event for us to see.” We love seeing it, and usually do that, we only offer tobacco to show our respect. ”

Some indigenous Americans honor the eagle by taking it as a festive name. Derek Walking Eagle, whose name was Lakota is “Eagle Thunder”, the graduates wearing a woven medal representing the bird.

For him, the eagles are like the relatives who connect him to his future and his afterlife.

“Be able to continue in the world of the soul … this is what guides you. It is the eagle,” said Walking Eagle.

This deep respect comments on feathers, too.

“It is the highest respect that you can give to someone, from your family and from your people, from your tribe,” said Thunder Hook. “We know the person who receives the feather that they must honor the eagle and respect it. We tell them why.”

Continuous problems, but the new hope

In many original cultures, killing the eagle is “rowing”. It is also Federal crime.

Historically, Thunder Hook, who grew up in South Dakota, historically, said Thunder Hook, who grew up in South Dakota, said that Six Woriors was overwhelming the eagle with the rabbit or other foods, and some feathers were running out and released it.

Today, there is a national program that legally distributes eagle feathers and spare parts exclusively for tribal members, although it has accumulated. The United States for wildlife and tribal officials worry about that Illegal killings and trafficking It is the eagles of their feathers, especially in the West.

Lori, the temporary director of the Raptor Center at the University of Minnesota, in Minnesota, said the eagles are often harmful due to road accidents and poison – the results of shrinking wildlife habitats that bring them in a closer contact with humans.

The center treats about 200 toughest eagles that are injured every year. Among those who can save it, most of them are finally released to the wild. Disbeded birds are permanently taken care of their eye or wings are very vibrant so that it cannot be sponsored or in other educational institutions such as the Wabasha Eagle Center.

Ernet said that the official appointment could help more Americans understand how their behavior is unintentionally attached to the eagles. For example, the garbage is attracted on the rodent highway that seduces the eagles, which the vehicles can collide after that. Fishing or hunting with lead and ammunition that contains lead shows that eagles that eat these fish or deer are still deadly mineral poisoning.

Thunder Hawk said that humans have lost the ability to coexist in harmony with the natural world, expressing their concern from the indigenous population of Andes Chilean to US-Mexico Borderlands.

He hopes that more people now have the eagle with the same reverence. This is what leads him to present a wise or red dryer every time he discovers one as “thank you for allowing me to see you and you to hear my prayers and thoughts.”

Ericsson, the new graduate, is involved in optimism.

“I feel that this type of show is that we are strong and united as a country,” she said in Mississippi, her new feathers in her hair.

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