U.S. Plan Would Sacrifice Baby Eagles to Hopi Ritual. “The Department of the

Interior has decided

that Hopi Indians should be

allowed to use golden eagle

hatchlings collected at a

national monument in

Arizona in an annual, ancient

rite in which the birds are

smothered…But critics say the legal reasoning used by the agency to

justify its position, detailed in a rule the agency plans to

propose next month, is so broad that it could open the way

to much wider hunting and trapping by Indians in parks from

Alaska to Florida.” New York Times