The Makah people of the Pacific Northwest have used this rifle cartridge for decades hunting whales.
An American Indian specialist, her research focused on the Salish and Makah peoples of western Washington State, with publications on ethnobotany, ethnohistory, and general ethnology.
Cedar roots were used in basket making, while canoes were carved from whole trees to hunt seals, gray whales and humpback whales.
Similarly the closely related Ditidaht of the Ditidaht First Nation and the Makah of the other side of the Strait of Juan de Fuca are not members of the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council.
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The Quileute language, also known as Quillayute, a Chimakuan language of the Quileute and Makah people of western Washington state in the United States