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Book Nhe Makah Indians

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  • Author : Elizabeth Colson
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 1974-01-28
  • ISBN : 9780837171531
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Nhe Makah Indians written by Elizabeth Colson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1974-01-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A picture of a modern American Indian group faced with the problem of understanding its position within American society.

Book The Makah Indians

Download or read book The Makah Indians written by Elizabeth Colson and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Makah Indian Nation  Neah Bay  Washington

Download or read book Makah Indian Nation Neah Bay Washington written by Makah Indian Tribe of the Makah Indian Reservation, Washington and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Drawing Back Culture

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  • Author : Ann M. Tweedie
  • Publisher : University of Washington Press
  • Release : 2015-08-17
  • ISBN : 0295998180
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book Drawing Back Culture written by Ann M. Tweedie and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2015-08-17 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Makah Indians of Washington State--briefly in the national spotlight when they resumed their ancient whaling traditions in 1999--have begun a process that will eventually lead to the repatriation of objects held by museums and federal agencies nationwide. Drawing Back Culture describes the early stages of the tribe's implementation of what some consider to be the most important piece of cultural policy legislation in the history of the United States: the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). NAGPRA was passed by Congress in 1990 to give Native people a mechanism through which they could reclaim specific objects of importance to the tribe. Because NAGPRA definitions were intended for widespread applicability, each tribe must negotiate a fit between these definitions and their own material culture. The broad range of viewpoints within any given tribal community creates internal negotiations over NAGPRA surrounding the identification and eventual return of such objects. Negotiations also arise concerning the nature of ownership. At the heart of this ongoing struggle are themes relevant to indigenous studies worldwide: the central role of material culture in cultural revitalization movements, concerns with intellectual property rights and self-representation, and the trend towards professional cultural resource management among indigenous peoples. The conception of ownership lies at the heart of the Makahs' struggle to implement NAGPRA. Tweedie explores their historical patterns of ownership, and demonstrates the challenges of implementing legislation which presumes a concept of communal ownership foreign to the Makahs' highly developed and historically documented patterns of personal ownership of both material culture and intellectual property. Drawing Back Culture explores how NAGPRA implementation has been working at the tribal level, from the perspective of a tribe struggling to fit the provisions of the law with its own sense of history, ownership, and the drive for cultural renewal.

Book The Makah

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  • Author : Sharlene Nelson
  • Publisher : Franklin Watts
  • Release : 2004-02-01
  • ISBN : 9780531162156
  • Pages : 63 pages

Download or read book The Makah written by Sharlene Nelson and published by Franklin Watts. This book was released on 2004-02-01 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the history, culture, religious beliefs, poetry, and contemporary life of the Makah Indians of Washington State.

Book Spirits of Our Whaling Ancestors

Download or read book Spirits of Our Whaling Ancestors written by Charlotte Coté and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the removal of the gray whale from the Endangered Species list in 1994, the Makah tribe of northwest Washington State announced that they would revive their whale hunts; their relatives, the Nuu-chah-nulth Nation of British Columbia, shortly followed suit. Neither tribe had exercised their right to whale - in the case of the Makah, a right affirmed in their 1855 treaty with the federal government - since the gray whale had been hunted nearly to extinction by commercial whalers in the 1920s. The Makah whale hunt of 1999 was an event of international significance, connected to the worldwide struggle for aboriginal sovereignty and to the broader discourses of environmental sustainability, treaty rights, human rights, and animal rights. It was met with enthusiastic support and vehement opposition. As a member of the Nuu-chah-nulth Nation, Charlotte Cote offers a valuable perspective on the issues surrounding indigenous whaling, past and present. Whaling served important social, economic, and ritual functions that have been at the core of Makah and Nuu-chahnulth societies throughout their histories. Even as Native societies faced disease epidemics and federal policies that undermined their cultures, they remained connected to their traditions. The revival of whaling has implications for the physical, mental, and spiritual health of these Native communities today, Cote asserts. Whaling, she says, “defines who we are as a people.” Her analysis includes major Native studies and contemporary Native rights issues, and addresses environmentalism, animal rights activism, anti-treaty conservatism, and the public’s expectations about what it means to be “Indian.” These thoughtful critiques are intertwined with the author’s personal reflections, family stories, and information from indigenous, anthropological, and historical sources to provide a bridge between cultures. A Capell Family Book

Book The Sea is My Country

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  • Author : Joshua L. Reid
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2015-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300209908
  • Pages : 419 pages

Download or read book The Sea is My Country written by Joshua L. Reid and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-scale history of the Makah people of the Pacific Northwest, whose culture and identity are closely bound to the sea For the Makahs, a tribal nation at the most northwestern point of the contiguous United States, a deep relationship with the sea is the locus of personal and group identity. Unlike most other indigenous tribes whose lives are tied to lands, the Makah people have long placed marine space at the center of their culture, finding in their own waters the physical and spiritual resources to support themselves. This book is the first to explore the history and identity of the Makahs from the arrival of maritime fur-traders in the eighteenth century through the intervening centuries and to the present day. Joshua L. Reid discovers that the "People of the Cape" were far more involved in shaping the maritime economy of the Pacific Northwest than has been understood. He examines Makah attitudes toward borders and boundaries, their efforts to exercise control over their waters and resources as Europeans and then Americans arrived, and their embrace of modern opportunities and technology to maintain autonomy and resist assimilation. The author also addresses current environmental debates relating to the tribe's customary whaling and fishing rights and illuminates the efforts of the Makahs to regain control over marine space, preserve their marine-oriented identity, and articulate a traditional future.

Book The Whaling Equipment of the Makah Indians

Download or read book The Whaling Equipment of the Makah Indians written by Thomas Talbot Waterman and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Voices of a Thousand People

Download or read book Voices of a Thousand People written by Patricia Pierce Erikson and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voices of a Thousand People is the story of one Native community?s efforts to found their own museum and empower themselves to represent their ancient traditional lifeways, their historic experiences with colonialism, and their contemporary efforts to preserve their heritage for generations to come. This ethnography richly portrays how a community embraced the archaeological discovery of Ozette village in 1970 and founded the Makah Cultural and Research Center (MCRC) in 1979. Oral testimonies, participant observation, and archival research weave a vivid portrait of a cultural center that embodies the self-image of a Native American community in tension with the identity assigned to it by others.

Book A Whale Hunt

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  • Author : Robert Sullivan
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 0684864347
  • Pages : 294 pages

Download or read book A Whale Hunt written by Robert Sullivan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the gray whale off the endangered list, the Makah Indians decide to resurrect the skills of their ancestors and return to the hunt amidst tribal infighting and animal rights activists.

Book The Makah Indians

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  • Author : Elizabeth Colson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1974
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Makah Indians written by Elizabeth Colson and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Anthropological Investigation of the Makah Indians

Download or read book Anthropological Investigation of the Makah Indians written by Herbert Cecil Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: