"Drums pounded and the crowd cheered as Obama was escorted to the podium by his 'new parents,' Hartford and Mary Black Eagle, in the manner of a groom being walked down the aisle. Obama beamed. His adoptive parents gave Obama hugs as he stepped onto a riser to speak.
"'I want to thank my new parents,' he said. 'The nicest parents you could ever want to know. I like my new name. Barack Black Eagle. That is a good name!'"
Matthew Mosk in The Washington Post reports from Montana as Barack Obama becomes the first ever presidential candidate to visit the Crow Nation reservation.
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