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Whaling Rights
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 N eah Bay is the largest town in the Makah Nation. It is near the Western Pacific shores of the Olympic Peninsula where gray whales pass by on their migratory route north. The young women from Neah Bay were the first researchers to begin a combined sociological/ecological study of the reinstatement of Makah Whaling rights. Tribal members incorporated findings from the young women's study in a presentation to the International Whaling Commission (IWC) at a 1996 meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. Demarus: I wrote a research paper on Alaskan Whaling to parallel reasons why the Makahs have the right to whale. I am Alaskan and my mom grew up eating whale meat. She helped me with my research and I also went on my own to libraries to look up IWC reports. Mary: I went to the Makah Tribal Museum and looked at the traditional hunting tools, the baskets and the harpoons. But I could not touch the tools because I am a woman, my teacher Mr. Giovanne had to hold the tools for me to look at. Crystal: I got a bunch of stuff off the Internet since Makah whaling has made such a crash in the media
Erica:
I did surveys between Squim H.S. and Neah Bay H.S. There was a major
difference between non-Indian students and native students. a lot of
non-Indian students didn't want whaling to happen because they didn't
understand why we wanted to do it.
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A Makah View of the Pacific Northwest
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"Rural Girls in Science" is a program of the Northwest Center for Research on Women
