P ORT ANGELES — The Makah and Hoh are among five Washington tribes that will receive $7.8 million in grants from the federal Bureau of Reclamation’s Tribal Domestic Water Program to fund ...

SEATTLE - The Makah, a tribal nation on Washington's Olympic Peninsula, have cleared the biggest hurdle that has blocked their tribe’s traditional practice of whaling for nearly two decades.

In March of this year, as noted on page 2, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) issued a draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) on the Makah Tribe’s proposed hunt of gray whales—the first ...