By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO PRAIRIE ISLAND INDIAN COMMUNITY, Minn. (AP) — Some Native Americans traditionally bestow bald eagle ...

Members of the Prairie Island Indian Community is welcoming the United States new national bird with a sense of pride, and ...

The bald eagle is now the official bird of the United States, nearly 250 years after it was first used as a symbol of the newly founded nation that’s deeply polarized politically today.

Many Native Americans are marking ceremonies like graduations with bald eagle feathers, a form of reverence for the bird they have always held sacred as a messenger to the Creator.

Members of the Prairie Island Indian Community is welcoming the United States new national bird with a sense of pride, and ...