1. What they did was wrong and illegal
2. In some locales, eagles are as pesky and bothersome as seagulls are along the coast. They are scavengers, not ‘Great Noble Hunters’.
2. What they did was wrong and illegal.
If they were looking for Eagles, why not just find one of those windmills and pick up as many carcasses as they needed?
But they will be referred to the Tribal Council for punishment......and likely nothing will happen.
1. What they did was wrong and illegal
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Only if they are non-Indians, otherwise, if they are treaty tribe Indians, they can do whatever the tribe permits - including killing as many deer as they want, and killing eagles for the feathers - both of which they can sell for fun and profit.
Non-Indians doing this are usually hung out to dry with big fines and much jail time. Indians are celebrated for continuing their tribal traditions (of rape, pillage, and murdering wildlife en mass). Moral: Know who your Masters are and stay off their ‘territory’.
PIF: You are quite correct, or at least that’s the law in our state. A deer on the rez has a very short life expectancy. And, I’ve learned from both US & Canadian people that Indians can cross the border at will to hunt whatever they want.
Considering Eagles are a part of Indian religious ritual, it’s difficult to say what the kid’s intent happened to be. If I knew some Indian kids were doing this in my neck of the woods (litterally), I just would not worry over it.