Makah Indian Reservation

The Seattle Public Library digitized approximately 800 new images this year, more than doubling the size of its historical Northwest Photograph Collection. From McNeil Island Penitentiary to the Coulee Dam to Neah Bay, photos from 1920-1949 demonstrate the long history of regional issues that KNKX Public Radio and its contributors report on to this day.

A long-awaited decision on the Makah tribe’s application to conduct a whale hunt will come within a year, according to federal regulators with NOAA Fisheries who issued a supplemental environmental impact statement on July 1. The supplemental EIS includes a new preferred alternative that the agency is recommending for approval.

KNKX environment reporter Bellamy Pailthorp was one of the first to visit the Makah Indian Reservation as it reopens to outsiders after two years due to the pandemic.

The remote Makah Tribal Nation in Northwest Washington took swift and decisive action to protect its people from COVID-19. Two years later, the tribe has finally begun letting outsiders in.

It’s been nearly two months since a federal administrative law judge issued his recommendation on the Makah Tribe’s request to revive its whale hunt, and comments on his recommendation closed over the weekend. Now the decision is in the hands of a single official at NOAA headquarters in Maryland.

A federal official has issued his recommendation regarding the Makah whale hunt. Judge George G. Jordan, administrative law judge with the U.S. Coast Guard, says he recommends granting the waiver the tribe has requested under the Marine Mammal Protection Act.

Every year in late August, the tiny Makah Nation welcomes neighboring tribes and others from all over the state to celebrate its traditions and learn…

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The Makah Tribe was the first community in the state to shut down because of COVID-19. Now they’re more than halfway through a vaccine rollout and are…

The Makah Tribe was the first community in the state to shut down and has isolated its small population since March 16.Its geography, with only one road…