It’s been more than twenty years since the Makah Tribe ... be allowed to resume whaling immediately. They still have to enter an agreement with federal regulators and obtain a hunting permit.

The tribe hopes to use the whales for food and to make handicrafts, artwork and tools it can sell ... endangered species list. The Makah tribe wants to resume hunting gray whales, allowed under ...

Not only was it the 100-year anniversary of the first festival, but it was also the first celebration after the Tribe’s victory in their decades-long struggle to legally resume hunting ... they can ...

The Makah Tribe secured the right to hunt whales ... against an MMPA moratorium on hunting marine mammals so it can resume whale hunting. Concerns about the humaneness of the hunt dominated ...

A long-standing symbol associated with the Makah Nation ... modern hunters use rifles, it can be hard for outsiders to understand the tribe's need to hunt whales. Still, she said, "Even though ...

It’s actually been only since 1991 that the tribe has sought to kill whales again under their 1855 Treaty of Neah Bay, but — except for one legal hunt in May 1999 and ... as the tribe is determined to ...

A California gray whale that ... Act to continue hunting whales. John McCarty, a former tribal whaling commission member who has been an advocate of the Makah's right to resume whaling under ...

The kill was made after the US government obtained a quota from the International Whaling Commission (IWC), thereby allowing the United States to authorize the Makah’s hunt ... tribal traditions and ...

In May 1999, whalers from the Makah Tribe in northwestern Washington state ... first step toward granting a waiver and sanctioning the hunt. The Makah seek an allowance to “strike” up to 42 whales ...