<p><!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: black;">I read that some in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community wanted to wear eagle feathers at their graduation ceremony at Mesa's Westwood High School in Arizona; seems that the eagle feather is a centuries-old symbol of passage given to young members of the tribe by its elders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>To do so would violate the conformity rules of their school. Obviously the word has not reached these people that American society is a monolithic culture of European, Christian, English-speaking people. This clash is similar to the Mexican illegal immigration issue&mdash;with the possible distinctions that the Europeans were the immigrants and the laws broken were international rules against unprovoked invasion and genocide.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Possibly we should consider putting a fence around the reservations as well as our Mexican borders to help preserve our Anglo Saxon intolerance.&nbsp;</span></p> <!--EndFragment--></p>