Increasingly isolated, the reservation is now routinely roadblocked in order to protect tribal members from outraged local citizens.
Protests continue to grow.
With commercial and tourism boycotts in the offing, other tribes are distancing themselves from the Makah. The U.S. Coast Guard, after ensuring that the Makah would succeed in killing a whale by sweeping protestors off the water, is faring no better. The Coast Guard has now issued an advisory to all personnel in Washington and Oregon not to go out in public while in uniform for their own safety. On Wednesday, an anonymous mourner left a wreath, a flower lei, a candle and a note on the spot in the Makah marina where the whale was butchered. We love you.