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The Navajo Nation Zoo’s 4,000-square-foot Eagle Aviary and Education Center, touted as the only tribally owned and operated zoo nationwide, helps provide legally sourced eagle feathers required for tribal ceremonies.
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Animals are hit on the road, seized after illegal hunting or euthanized by the state. The department then works with tribes who use them for ceremonial purposes, instead of disposing of the carcasses.
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Wildlife conservation efforts, in part, criminalized Indigenous customs, but also led to a thriving global black market for wildlife parts. To counteract that illicit industry, a Phoenix nonprofit has been providing an alternative, legal source of feathers for tribal members in Arizona and nationwide.