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Author Coté, Charlotte (Charlotte June)

Title Spirits of our whaling ancestors : revitalizing Makah and Nuu-chah-nulth traditions / Charlotte Coté ; foreword by Micah McCarty
Edition First edition
Published Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2010]
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Description 1 online resource (xx, 273 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series A Capell family book
Capell family book.
Contents Introduction: honoring our whaling ancestors -- Tsawalk: The centrality of whaling to Makah and Nuu-chah-nulth Life -- Utla: Worldviews Collide : The arrival of Mamalhn'i in Indian Territory -- Kutsa: Maintaining the cultural link to whaling ancestors -- Muu: The Makah harvest a whale -- Sucha: challenges to our right to whale -- Nupu: Legal impediments spark a 2004 whale hunt -- Atlpu: restoring Nanash'agtl communities
Summary "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 Coté 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-chah-nulth 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, Coté 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. This work, by an Indigenous scholar who also has hereditary rights to particular kinds of information and who shares the traditions of her own family and community, makes a powerful contribution to Northwest Coast Indigenous and environmental history."--Pub. desc
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Makah Indians -- Ethnic identity
Makah Indians -- Hunting
Makah Indians -- Social life and customs
Indian whalers -- Northwest, Pacific
Whaling -- Social aspects -- Northwest, Pacific
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies.
Indian whalers.
Makah Indians -- Hunting.
Makah
Makah Indians -- Social life and customs.
Nootka
Whaling -- Social aspects.
Selbstbestimmungsrecht
Kultur
Wiederbelebung
Walfang
Pacific Northwest.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780295997582
0295997583