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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEAH BAY — The Makah Cultural and Research Center has been awarded funding from Communities for Immunity in support of its work to promote vaccine confidence in Neah Bay. The $9,997 award will support ...

“We have always lived sustainably and in balance with our environment,” said DePoe, walking a visitor around the Makah cultural center in Neah Bay. Pointing to various exhibits showing the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...