Caught between a rock and a hard place, as my brother use to say!
Michigan Native Americans back 'historical' prosecution in illegal sale
of eagle feathers
Selling anything you are calling SACRED is wrong!
No traditional Native American would ever sell or buy anything called
Sacred!
Timothy Clinton-Paul Oleniczak, 21, was sentenced Wednesday, Oct. 31, by
U.S. District Judge Robert Jonker in Grand Rapids.
Yes, Timothy sold Eagle feathers and No he is not a member of the Little
River Band of Ottawa Indians, haven met many of them one cannot hold that
against him.
However, Yes he is Indian (Native American).
Did he get the feathers correctly?
Did he sell to a Native American?
Was the selling them only to members of the Little River Band of Ottawa
Indians?
All of that said, the law, ever though this law is wrong, is the law!
Despite the reverence given eagle feathers, they are not protected
because of spiritual or religious significance, Jonker said.
They are protected to deter those trying to sell them on the black
market.
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