NEAH BAY — The Makah Cultural and Research Center will celebrate its 45th anniversary from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. The annual celebration will be at the center, 1880 Bayview Ave. The center ...

This rich bounty - tens of thousands of perfectly preserved objects unearthed in the 1970s - forms the basis of the Makah Cultural Center collection. It's all displayed in a modern building with ...

The Makah Cultural and Research Center in Neah Bay displays artifacts that help describe the life of Makah people before European explorers arrival. The permanent exhibits include artifacts from the ...

Janine Bowechop, executive director of the Makah Cultural & Research Center, said this thinking is still alive. "All we want is the chance to protect our traditions," she explained. "We believe ...

The artifacts set the 24,000-square-foot Makah Cultural and Research Center apart from many other tribal exhibits in North America. The Makah exhibit real items used long ago by the tribe ...

Ozette Native American Village Archeological Site, a Makah settlement, is well-preserved due to a mudslide that happened centuries ago. Here, visitors can learn all about the region’s indigenous ...

she helped researchers from the Makah Cultural and Research Center and mentored younger tribal members in language and craft skills. She was a distinguished weaver of cedar baskets who once ...

Claplanhoo, 81, died of a heart attack March 14. Under his leadership, he helped create the Makah Cultural and Research Center in Neah Bay. Claplanhoo was the tribal chairman when the Ozette ...

Photograph by Theresa Parker, courtesy the Makah Cultural and Research Center, Neah Bay, WA. The Makah’s treaty-guaranteed right to whale was last officially invoked 25 years ago. It was prompted by ...

And, and not give up.” Janine Ledford, executive director of the Makah Cultural and Research Center in Neah Bay, recalled the feeling she had as a young woman witnessing the whale hunt in 1999.

Whaling is central to Makah culture and treaty rights explicitly protect the tribe’s right to hunt whales, leaders said. “There is now a defined path for us to exercise our reserved treaty ...

NEAH BAY — The Makah Cultural and Research Center will celebrate its 45th anniversary from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. The annual celebration will be at the center, 1880 Bayview Ave. The center, which ...