Whaling is central to Makah culture and treaty rights explicitly protect the tribe’s right to hunt whales, leaders said. “There is now a defined path for us to exercise our reserved treaty ...

Janine Ledford, executive director of the Makah Cultural and Research Center in Neah Bay, recalled the feeling she had as a young woman witnessing the whale hunt in 1999. The 25 years that have ...

NEAH BAY, Wash. — The Makah Tribe has been granted a waiver from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to hunt a limited number of gray whales for ceremonial and subsistence ...

By Mike Baker Reporting from Seattle The Makah Tribe, which has long sought approval to resume hunting whales off the Washington State coast, won approval from federal regulators on Thursday to ...

In May 1999, a group of Makah hunters successfully hunted a gray whale. It was the first whale hunt the Makah had carried out since the 1920s, when the tribe voluntarily stopped hunting whales ...

The Makah, a tribe of 1,500 people on the northwestern tip of the Olympic Peninsula, is the only Native American tribe with a treaty that specifically mentions a right to hunt whales. But it has ...

The three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals forbade the Makah from hunting for gray whales until the government conducts a full-blown environmental analysis and the government and ...

They are an auditory manifestation of the sacred relationship between the Makah and the gray whales. And these songs were practiced for the decades when hunting itself was not. On May 17, 1999, the ...

the tribes requested the right to hunt, fish and gather in their “usual and accustomed places.” For the Makah, this included the rights to harvest whales. Because of the impacts of European ...