Indians are supposedly good to go with eagles?
Decades ago National Geographic told how the Hopis kill hand raised eagles for their feathers. They did a hole,place the tied eagle in and cover it up allowing the eagle to smother. Then they can dig it up with no damage to the feathers.
I understood it had government approval.
For years, Indians with religious authority had to wait for years to get a single bald eagle feather for rituals. Often it was a loaner only, and was laser engraved with a serial number.
Things have recently turned around because of one woman, the late “Alaskan eagle lady”. She lived on a harbor that had a small number of eagles. She noted that canneries threw away a LOT of fish offal, filling at least a dumpster, so she asked if she could use it to feed eagles in winter, when they were always at risk of starvation. They agreed.
In a few years, the numbers of eagles exploded. Because they are territorial birds, the area soon was exporting eagles into Canada and the rest of the US. Areas that had not seen eagles for many decades started seeing them again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Keene