Makah

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• During the annual festival, the Makah tribe showcases their traditional dances and crafts.

• He designed the Longhouse Cultural Education Center for the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, and the Makah De'aht Elders' Center in Neah Bay, Washington, both in reference to "Long Houses" or the plank houses of the Northwest Coast region.

  Academic text (2004)

• The Makah Indian Tribe, which entered the fishery in 1997, fishes off Cape Flattery.

  Academic text (2000)

• I recalled hearing many similar disparaging remarks made to Makah tribal members as they attempted, and later succeeded, in exercising their treaty rights in Washington State.

  Academic text (2005)

• The 25,000 t quota given to the Makah tribe in 1997 and 1998 was part of the total U.S. quota (Dorn et al., 1999).

  Academic text (2000)

• For example, there are cases to be analyzed that, like Gotchnik, focus on conflicts between subsistence rights and the protection or preservation of natural resources, including litigation over the treaty rights of the Makah to hunt whales.

  Academic text (2001)

• In some such situations, Indian groups themselves have been split, as in Metcalf v. Daley, which pitted Indian groups against each other over whether the Makah could resume whaling as part of the tribe's cultural tradition.

  Academic text (2006)

• In his telling, the Makah whale hunt usually pits opposed forces in odd juxtapositions: Indians and international whalers versus pragmatic and romantic respecters of animals.

  Academic text (2005)

• Sullivan records the two-year effort by the Makah Indians of the Olympic Peninsula to recover their traditional whale hunt, their conflicts with conservationists, and their contention with a media feeding frenzy.

  Academic text (2005)

• The Makah people have a rich cultural heritage linked to the Pacific Northwest coast.

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