So, those are the eyes you will see through and that is the heart that will try and speak. Besides this message, I will post one that I wrote immediately following the hunt, which Susan has already seen. I agree with those that say commercial whaling must stop. I speak only about the Makah hunt, and that is an Indian issue. To understand this, you must understand the problem, and it goes beyond legalitities or politics.
Native peoples are in a process of recovery.
We first were placed under the War Department. And it was a miserable failure from their perspective and from ours. Remember, we are only talking a few generations of people. For the PNW, it is only 3 generations. My great-grandfather was one of the signators of the Medicine Creek Treaty.