Makah Indian whale hunt: is it right? (Makah Indians still hunting gray whales for survival and to keep in touch with tradition)

Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication | October 30, 1998 | Copyright

A group of Makah Indians paddle their 32-foot-long canoe through the morning mist, out into a bay off the Pacific Coast of North America After many hours On the bay, they spot the barnacle-covered back of a gray whale. They paddle after the whale and spear it with a harpoon.

This scene could have taken place 2,000 years ago -- and now it could also happen today. The Makah Indians, a Northwest Native American tribe, have been granted permission by the U.S. government and the International Whaling Commission to hunt gray whales in the way their ancestors did for ...

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