Their efforts helped draw the political weight and monetary muscle of international ... “We feel someone needs to speak for the whales.” Like the Makah, the Owenses aren’t celebrating 10 years after ...

It has been 25 years since the Makah tribe last harpooned a gray whale, a practice its members consider a sacred tradition but was restricted by federal regulation. But on Thursday, the tribe was ...

Many of the Makah Little Bucks also fill in empty seats in the tribe ... and Johnson said that other elements of life routinely draw possible crew members away from the grueling training schedule. War ...

Neah Bay, Wash. - For perhaps 2,000 years, Kurt Wazhendorf's Makah ancestors would paddle their canoes 60 miles out to sea and kill whales with wooden spears. When they did it again in 1999 ...

A Makah tribal elder and leader, Mr. Claplanhoo had a steady, calm way about him, decades of experience to draw upon and a knack for building consensus. “He didn’t necessarily talk a lot ...

prepare construction drawings and specifications, and construct the facility. Because of the tribe’s resolve and persistence, the Makah Transfer Station opened last October. The complex includes ...

This year, an administrative trial in Washington state could dictate whether the Makah tribe can resume hunting the whales during future migrations. The Makah, who live in the Olympic Peninsula ...

It’s been more than twenty years since the Makah Tribe last legally hunted a gray whale. On Thursday the tribe was given the green light to resume its centuries old tradition. “My reaction is ...

A single road provides access to the town of Neah Bay, Washington, on the Makah Reservation—a narrow ribbon of asphalt that skirts the lush cloak of evergreen skyscrapers called the Olympic Rainforest ...

SEATTLE — The United States granted the Makah Indian Tribe in Washington state a long-sought waiver Thursday that helps clear the way for its first sanctioned whale hunts since 1999 and sets the ...

NEAH BAY -- Leaders of the Makah Tribe are headed to Washington, D.C., for what they described as "damage control" after an illegal whale hunt that might jeopardize the tribe's long pursuit of ...