Spirits of Our Whaling Ancestors: Revitalizing Makah and Nuu-chah-nulth Traditions

by Charlotte Cote and Charlotte Coté

Book Overview

Following the removal of the gray whale from the Endangered Species list in 1994, the Makah tribe of northwest Washington State announced that they would revive their whale hunts; their relatives, the Nuu-chah-nulth Nation of British Columbia, shortly followed suit. Neither tribe had exercised their right to whale - in the case of the Makah, a right affirmed in their 1855 treaty with the federal government - since the gray whale had been hunted...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295990465
• ISBN13: 9780295990460
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.1" x 10.0"