Jan. 30—Tribal advocates argued during a Tuesday evening hearing in Helena that a proposed hunting bill could jeopardize tribal-state relations and result in years of costly litigation. House Bill 216 ...

LINCOLN CITY, Ore. — Drumming made the floor vibrate and singing filled the conference room of the Chinook Winds Casino Resort in Lincoln City, on the Oregon coast, as hundreds in tribal regalia ...

The Makah Indian tribe in Washington state have a tradition of killing gray whales that dates back centuries. They may earn the legal right to hunt after a 1999 temporary ban. The final decision will ...

A Native American tribe in Washington State may have a chance to resume its traditional gray whale hunt after battling environmental and animal activist groups for decades due to a Seattle judge’s ...

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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 ...

SEATTLE – Not since the spring of 1999 have members of the Makah Tribe filed into a cedar canoe and paddled off Washington’s coast to legally harpoon a gray whale, trailing its body back to shore for ...

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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 ...