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 ...

Around 100 canoes from many American Indian tribes arrived Monday on the shores of the Makah Indian Reservation on the Olympic Peninsula for the annual canoe journeys.

Neah Bay, Wash. - For perhaps 2,000 years, Kurt Wazhendorf's Makah ancestors would paddle their canoes 60 miles out to sea and kill whales with wooden spears. When they did it again in 1999 ...

Additional artifacts such as seal clubs, halibut hooks and canoe paddles came from Ozette, an ancient coastal village that was excavated by archaeologists from Washington State University in the ...

SEATTLE — Paddling side by side, Makah canoeists on Many Hands and Hummingbird somberly sailed to shore Monday on Lake Washington. The two canoes were the last to arrive out of about 75 from tribes in ...

Makah Tribe in Washington hopes to hunt whales again after 20 years of legal fights and layers of scientific review. ... He was on a canoe that greeted the crew towing in the body of a gray whale.

News of the waiver energized the community, which Greene said will prepare its canoes, paddles and harpoons for the Makah tribe’s sacred tradition. “It’s going to be life changing,” he said.

Archeological evidence shows that Makah hunters in cedar canoes killed whales for sustenance from time immemorial, a practice that ceased only in the early 20th century after commercial whaling ...

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 ...

Archeological evidence shows that Makah hunters in cedar canoes killed whales for sustenance from time immemorial, a practice that ceased only in the early 20th century after commercial whaling ...

A week after five Makah whalers illegally hunted a gray whale off Neah Bay, some of the tribe’s leaders have begun to say that while they disapprove of the hunt, they understand why the whalers ...

NEAH BAY -- Leaders of the Makah Tribe are headed to Washington, D.C., for what they described as "damage control" after an illegal whale hunt that might jeopardize the tribe's long pursuit of ...