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  • caption: Members of the Makah tribe of Neah Bay surround a grey whale on May 17, 1999, the tribe's last whale hunt.

    Makah Tribe’s treaty-protected whaling rights remain blocked after more than 25 years

    Despite the Makah Tribe’s success in getting a waiver to carry out their exclusive treaty right for whaling, the permitting process that had dragged on for over 20 years has now been effectively delayed another year and a half because of bogged-down federal bureaucracy. The Makah Tribe is the only one in the Lower 48 that has an exclusive treaty right to whaling.