It’s been more than twenty years since the Makah Tribe last legally hunted a gray whale. On Thursday the tribe was given the green light to resume its ... stopped hunting whales in the 1920s ...

The Makah Tribe secured the right to hunt whales ... against an MMPA moratorium on hunting marine mammals so it can resume whale hunting. Concerns about the humaneness of the hunt dominated ...

In May 1999, whalers from the Makah Tribe in northwestern Washington state killed a gray whale—something they had not done since the 1920s. Even the few tribal elders who could remember the last kill ...

An MMPA waiver could change that. Makah whaling could be disastrous for two of the three gray whale populations that traverse the tribe’s planned hunting grounds. One such population—resident gray ...