A Native American inmate may proceed with his First Amendment lawsuit against state corrections officials who won’t let him pray in a sweat lodge or use a medicine bag or a peace pipe at his prison ...

It would be a new phase. He told me he would do a special headdress with eagle feathers that means vision." Pereira has always exhibited immense pride in his indigenuous Brazilian heritage ...

A stunning eagle feather headdress that once belonged to Chief Spotted Tail (Sinte Gleska), an influential 19th-century Brule/Sicangu Lakota leader, has been returned to the chief’s descendants ...

A stunning eagle feather headdress that once belonged to Chief Spotted Tail (Sinte Gleska), an influential 19th-century Brule/Sicangu Lakota leader, has been returned to the chief’s descendants, who ...

A headdress made of eagle feathers is among the heirlooms passed down through generations of the Newell family. Several years ago, they decided to repatriate it.Credit...Tara Weston for The New ...

Women carried eagle feather fans. Men wore eagle feather headdresses that bounced back and forth as they danced. Leading the procession was a man wielding a staff topped with an eagle head.