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A Whale Hunt: How a Native American Village Did What No One Thought It Could Paperback - 2002
by Robert Sullivan
The story of a Native American tribe's quest to re-institute a long-forgotten tradition, "A Whale Hunt" is a gloriously idiosyncratic fusion of travelogue, ecology, history, moral controversy, and high-seas adventure.
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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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- Title A Whale Hunt: How a Native American Village Did What No One Thought It Could
- Author Robert Sullivan
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Scribner Book Company, New York, NY
- Date 2002-05-16
- Features Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780684864341 / 0684864347
- Weight 0.82 lbs (0.37 kg)
- Dimensions 8.52 x 5.51 x 0.72 in (21.64 x 14.00 x 1.83 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 1950-1999
- Cultural Region: Pacific Northwest
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Cultural Region: West Coast
- Ethnic Orientation: Native American
- Geographic Orientation: Washington
- Topical: Ecology
- Library of Congress subjects Public opinion - United States, Makah Indians - Hunting
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00030108
- Dewey Decimal Code 639.280
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- New York Times, 05/26/2002, Page 20
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Scribner Book Company, 2002. Trade paperback. Very Good. 8x5x0. For centuries the hunting of the whale was what defined the Makah, a Native American tribe in Neah Bay, but when commercial whaling drove the gray whale to near extinction in the 1920s, the Makah voluntarily discontinued their tradition and hung up their harpoons. In 1994, after the gray whale was taken off the endangered species list, the Makah decided to hunt again. The problem was that all the old whalers were dead -- no one knew how to go about hunting a whale. A Whale Hunt chronicles the two years Robert Sullivan spends with the Makah as they prepare for and stage the first hunt. Combating tribal infighting and inexperience, they must also face passionate, furious animal rights activists and swarming reporters. Before the ragtag group of hunters even pursues a whale, there are clashes, disappointments, and defeats, small triumphs and unexpected heroes.A book of many layers and revelations, A Whale Hunt is the story of the demise…
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