Ernest H. Mayer, who heads the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s enforcement division in Arlington, Va., said the 48 golden eagle tail feathers in the Geronimo war bonnet came from six to 12 birds.

Court documents filed Thursday and unsealed Friday alleged Johnson tried to sell a war bonnet that included golden eagle feathers on April 15 to Jay’s Pawn Shop, 303 Airport Road in Bismarck.

Two American Indian tribes and the U.S. government have gone to court in a battle over an eagle-feather headdress that, according to folklore, was last worn by Apache leader Geronimo.

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Authorities have charged a man with a federal misdemeanor for allegedly trying to sell an American Indian war bonnet containing eagle feathers at a Bismarck pawn shop.

A prized Lakota eagle feather headdress kept in Lincoln for 57 years has begun its journey back to Pine Ridge. On Saturday, the Lakota war bonnet was presented to about 10 members of the Oglala ...

A man who works American-Indian powwow events was named Monday in a federal indictment on charges of violating several acts related to selling costumes that contain the feathers of federally ...

The well-preserved 8-foot-tall war bonnet, made of 35 1-foot-long bald and golden eagle feathers, had disappeared from the public eye until last year, when Leighton Deming and Thomas Marciano were ...

Ninety-two years ago, the war bonnet, studded with 48 foot-long eagle feathers, sat on the head of the United States’ most famous prisoner of war. Geronimo, the Apache leader who eluded the A… ...

A prized Lakota eagle feather headdress kept in Lincoln for 57 years has begun its journey back to Pine Ridge. On Saturday, the Lakota war bonnet was presented to about 10 members of the Oglala ...