Arapaho man must stand trial in eagle killing case


	Arapaho man must stand trial in eagle killing case

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5-13-2008 8:13 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/fff7dd9f-9118-4c3c-a254-ce3d0115a98d/9451D2AA-4DA7-44F6-B634-7B8C0858BE6E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=20024" href="http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=20024" style="font-size: 11px;">www.firstamendmentcenter.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=20024">A member of the Northern Arapaho Tribe who killed a bald eagle for use in his tribe's Sun Dance in 2005 must stand trial, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=20024"><P><FONT size="2" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" color="black"><FONT size="3" face="Times New Roman, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" color="black">In dismissing the charge, Downes said the federal government had shown "callous indifference" to Native American religious beliefs. Downes said the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service generally refuses to grant permits allowing tribal members to kill eagles, even though federal regulations say such permits should be available.</FONT></FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=20024"><P><FONT size="2" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" color="black"><FONT size="3" face="Times New Roman, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" color="black">But the appeals court ruled in <I><A href="http://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/opinions/06/06-8093.pdf">U.S. v. Friday</A></I> that American Indians' religious freedoms are not violated by federal law protecting eagles or its policy requiring American Indians to get permits to kill eagles.</FONT></FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=20024"><P><FONT size="2" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" color="black"><FONT size="3" face="Times New Roman, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" color="black">"Law accommodates religion," Circuit Judge Michael W. McConnell wrote for the panel. "It cannot wholly exempt religion from the reach of the law."</FONT></FONT></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9451D2AA-4DA7-44F6-B634-7B8C0858BE6E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>