SEATTLE — A month after gray whales began their 5,000-mile migration from Mexico to the Chukchi Sea off Alaska, three Makah families are preparing to set out with their cedar canoes and harpoons. The ...

FILE - Two Makah Indian whalers stand atop the carcass of a dead gray whale moments after helping tow it close to shore in the harbor at Neah Bay, Wash., May 17, 1999. Earlier in the day, Makah ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

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 whaling. It ...

SEATTLE (AP) — The United States granted the Makah Indian Tribe in Washington state a long-sought waiver Thursday that helps clear the way for its first sanctioned whale hunts since 1999 and sets the ...

SEATTLE — The United States granted the Makah Indian Tribe in Washington state a long-sought waiver Thursday that helps clear the way for its first sanctioned whale hunts since 1999 and sets the stage ...