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Whale Hunt: Two Years On The Olympic Peninsula...
November 30, 2004, Diane Pub Co
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0756784166 9780756784164
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A Whale Hunt: How a Native-American Village Did What No One Thought It Could
May 7, 2002, Scribner
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in English
0684864347 9780684864341
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A whale hunt: the remarkable story of an Indian tribe's quest to regain its ancient rituals in the modern world
2001, Headline
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0747264619 9780747264613
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"Before there was a whale hunt; before seven members of the Makah-a small tribe of Native Americans situated at the very northwestern tip of the United States-climbed into a canoe and paddled out into the ocean that first was calm and then swelled like a man drunk with power, oblivious to the paddlers who were singing and praying and carrying a harpoon and a rifle capable of killing an elephant, much less a whale; before the whale came; before that canoe and the men in the canoe paddled after it and a harpoon was launched and the whale dragged the canoe and a bullet was fired and the whale was killed and then nearly lost but then recovered; before the whale was towed into Neah Bay, the tiny and tired little fishing village that is for all intents and purposes the capital of the Makah reservation; before the people of the town rejoiced because it had been so many years-an entire generation, in fact-since a whale had been haunted and killed and because the hunting of the whale is what has for thousands"
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