Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s been more than twenty years since the Makah Tribe last legally hunted a gray whale. On Thursday the tribe was given the green ...

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 ...

Twenty years ago, the Makah Indian Tribe hunted and killed a gray whale, touching off both pride and protest around the world. The tribe is attempting to do it again. Over the next several days, ...

Last week, after my children were released from school for the year, my family and I hit the road for the Oregon Coast for a few days away from the Interstate 5 corridor. We played on the beach, ...

Twenty years after its last successful whale hunt, the Makah Tribe is inching closer to getting to harpoon gray whales again off the Washington coast. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

SEATTLE (AP) — Patrick DePoe was in high school the last time his Native American tribe in Washington state was allowed to hunt whales. He was on a canoe that greeted the crew towing in the body of a ...

NEAH BAY — Improvements made on the Makah reservation will last long after this week’s Tribal Canoe Journey celebration, which begins today with the welcoming of some 100 canoes. “During the canoe ...

NEAH BAY — A celebration of life is set at 1 p.m. Saturday for Ben Johnson Jr., who led the Makah tribal council during its first successful whale hunt in 70 years. Johnson died Monday at Olympic ...