LTTE: The staff was removed; the ceremony continues

LTTE: The staff was removed; the ceremony continues

The day Rory Spotted Horse stood at a Fort Collins City Council meeting with his eagle feather staff and was told to remove it was not the beginning of the story — and it will not be the end. To many, it may have looked like a small disruption — a misunderstanding, perhaps. For those of us who carry the memory of the land, it was part of a much longer story, one that includes flooded valleys, vanished springs, displaced nations and ceremonies th…