FROM THE ARCHIVE
LETTER: Religious freedom
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MARCH 16, 2001

"As for complaints about smoke and feathers, I am a Lumbee Indian and take a certain offense to that ignorance of our tradition and intolerance toward our beliefs. If time were taken to learn about native people you would find that we do not approach such momentous undertakings without prayer and guidance from the Creator. As for the eagle feather, ask a Native American the significance sometime. . ."

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LETTER: Smoke and feathers significant (Clif Drake. Letter to Editor. The New London Day 3/16)