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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...