Tom Iron Eagle

Hey, J.L., Blackbear has it pretty much on the head - But many Tribes long before the time of Osceola used and wore all kinds of the exotic feathers from the Europeans - this included Ostrich.

The Ostrich feathers were used almost immediatley since White Contact in the 16th Century (many years before Osceola) all up and down the Eastern Seaboard. Evidence even shows that these excotic feathers along with others like pheasant, magpie, makaw and more were used by Tribes from the Atlantic to the Pacific as early as the late 18th and early 19th Centuries.

I say still use the Ostrich feather, but have it off to the side of the gustoweh and pointing down as more of an accent feather. I have seen this done and it looks really cool. So do some trail and error and see what you come up with.