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 Stories About: oceans AND Washington AND whaling
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Whale of a Time
A review of A Whale Hunt |
Elizabeth Grossman |
07 Mar 2001 |
Arts and Minds |
| For countless generations the Makah Indians have lived on the shores of Neah Bay, in the corner of Washington's Olympic Peninsula, the northwesternmost tip of the 48 states. Until the 1920s, hunting the gray whales that swam past this stretch of coastline as they migrated between Baja California and Alaska's Bering Sea had been a Makah tradition for 2,000 years. Gray whale blues. Photo: NOAA. In the early 20th century, co ... |
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| Topics: oceans, Washington, whaling (all these topics) |
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