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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

The whales were removed from the Endangered Species list in 1994. The tribe hasn't had a legally authorized hunt since 1999, which was the first in 70 years. In 2007, five members of the Makah ...

Those details emerged in a federal indictment handed down Thursday charging five Makah tribal members each with three misdemeanor counts for their role in a rogue whale hunt last month.