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Leon Old Elk-Stewart comforts a young boy who dropped an eagle feather during the dancing at the Proclamation Day Powwow on the Meskwaki settlement near Tama, Iowa. Eagle feathers are sacred to the Meskwaki, and Stewart used the moment to urge the boy to not feel bad about dropping the feather, but instead to move forward. Wednesday July 16, 2008. (MORGAN HAWTHORNE / Courier Staff Photographer)