(13 Jul 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Prairie Island Indian Community, Minnesota – 9 July 2025
1. Staff with eagle feathers
2. Native drumming
3. Graduated lined up to receive gifts
4. Girl with bald eagle feather in her hair
5. Jim Thunder Hawk congratulating graduates UPSOUND (English): “Good job.”
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Thunder Hawk, Prairie Island Indian Community educator:
“It usually symbolizes a messenger of our prayers and communication to the great spirit.”
7. Prairie Island Indian Community seal on staff with eagle feathers
8. Parents congratulating graduates with eagle feathers
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Wabasha, Minnesota – 9 July 2025
9. National Eagle Center exterior
10. Various bald eagles at eagle center
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Tiffany Ploehn, National Eagle Center:
“The bald eagle has kind of been under the assumption by most of the American public that is has been the United States’ national bird for centuries at this point. And actually that’s not true.”
12. United States seal with bald eagle
13. Eagle toy in patriotic packaging
14. Portraits of lawmakers who helped make bald eagle the national bird
UPITN
Archive: Location unknown – 1969
15. Various old film footage of bald eagles ++MUTE++
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lake City, Minnesota – 9 July 2025
16. Various bald eagle in tree
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Prairie Island Indian Community, Minnesota – 9 July 2025
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Jayvionna Buck, Prairie Island Indian Community:
“They’re everywhere around here honestly. And I know that we all have a special love for them. We all love eagles. Like my mom, I remember, every time I’d see her–every time we’d see and eagle in the car, she’d just look at me and be like EAGLE!”
18. Various portraits of women wearing bald eagle feathers
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Sadie Erickson, Prairie Island Indian Community:
“For me, I feel like that kind of shows that we're strong and united as a country.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lake City, Minnesota – 9 July 2025
20. Bald eagle in tree
21. Bald eagle flying
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Prairie Island Indian Community, Minnesota – 9 July 2025
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Thunder Hawk, Prairie Island Indian Community educator:
“In a way I’m tickled pink because for centuries the Native people have looked upon the eagle in that manor. And for the United States to finally do that, it’s special because we’re saying well maybe now they’ll respect the eagle more. And maybe as a people we’ll have something in common too. To look forward to and eventually be united."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lake City, Minnesota – 9 July 2025
23. Bald eagle taking flight
STORYLINE:
Each year, the Prairie Island Indian Community celebrates it’s recent graduates.
High school grads receive a special honor–the feather of bald eagle tied into their hair.
“It usually symbolizes a messenger of our prayers and communication to the great spirit,” said Jim Thunder Hawk, a Dakota language and culture manager for Prairie Island Indian Community... [truncated]
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