The Makah Tribe will be free next week to resume its ancient whale hunt with fewer restrictions on where they can take a whale, and none on when. It means the hunt will be much safer for the eight ...

Two Makah tribe members stand atop the carcass of a gray whale after helping tow it close to shore in the harbor at Neah Bay, Wash., in 1999. The United States granted the Makah Indian Tribe in ...

The Makah tribe in Washington state will be able to resume their longstanding tradition of whaling, after NOAA Fisheries decided Thursday to give them a waiver for a hunt.

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 ...

Even when the Tribe wasn’t whaling, the spiritual connection between the Makah and the whale spirits was kept alive in the form of sacred whaling songs. “Chiefs obtained their whaling songs through a ...

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 harvest as many as 25 gray whales over ...

Wayne Johnson, the captain of the Makah Tribe whaling crew from a 1999 hunt, looks on during a federal court hearing to help determine whether his small American Indian tribe can once again hunt ...

The long wait is over. A federal official has given the green light for members of the Makah tribe to resume exercising their treaty right to whaling, based on a request first made in 2005. Their ...

Makah Tribe can harpoon whales as US waives conservation law. June 14, 2024 at 4:00 a.m. ... bureaucratic hearings and scientific review as it seeks to resume hunting for gray 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.

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 ...

The Makah tribe in Washington state will be able to resume their longstanding tradition of whaling, after NOAA Fisheries decided Thursday to give ...