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 ...

Tribe could resume whale hunt after 20-year battle with activist groups ... 2021, 8:19 p.m. ET. Members of the Makah Indian Tribe on a whale hunt at a harbor in Neah Bay, Washington on May 17 ...

The Makah, who live in the Olympic Peninsula’s northwest corner, have asked NOAA for a waiver from the Marine Mammal Protection Act so they can restart their traditional whale hunt.

NEAH BAY, Wash. — A Seattle judge has recommended the Makah Indian Tribe be allowed to resume their traditional hunt of gray whales after a decades-long legal battle with environmental groups ...

A federal judge has moved the Makah Tribe a big step forward in its 16-year-quest to resume hunting gray whales. U.S. Coast Guard administrative law judge George Jordan largely rejected animal ...

The tribe was granted permission in 1997 to resume hunting after the whales were removed from the endangered species list, and successfully killed a single whale in 1999.

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 ...

The Makah tribe in Washington state will be able to resume their longstanding tradition of whaling, after NOAA Fisheries decided Thursday to give them a waiver for a hunt.

SEATTLE — An administrative law judge has recommended that the Makah Tribe once again be allowed to hunt gray whales — a major step in its decades-long effort to resume the ancient practice. “This is ...

Two Makah tribe members stand atop the carcass of a gray whale after helping tow it close to shore in the harbor at Neah Bay, Wash., in 1999. The United States granted the Makah Indian Tribe in ...

Washington’s Makah tribe could again be allowed to hunt gray whales. The government issued a draft environmental statement Friday in response to the tribe’s longstanding request to resume ...

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 ...