Talk:Makah

message: This section is not accurate as at least one of the sailors did make it back to Japan on at least two occasions the youngest survivor went to Japan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otokichi. Someone more knowledgeable about Wikipedia editing would be a better fit than I to correct this.      — Preceding unsigned comment added by 156.74.250.10 (talk) 18:23, 28 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Fate of Japanese Sailors

message: hi. perhaps i am misunderstood? 
i removed :Category:Indigenous languages of the North American Northwest Coast because the entire Wakashan family is already under this category. this because is :Category:Wakashan languages is under it & Makah is under :Category:Wakashan languages. putting Makah under Indigenous languages of the North American Northwest Coast is redundant. that's all. peace – ishwar  (speak) 01:30, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I've gotten into this issue in other subjects and now, as then, I will state my strong feeling that not everyone who uses this website knows how the categories work and that you can find Indigenous languages of the North American Northwest Coast by clicking up from Wakashan languages.  The more connections a user studying the subject can easily make, the better, thus regardless of your "stickler" nature about the cats, it's more helpful to keep both easily available to the general reader.  Badagnani 02:22, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  ok. thanks for the note. i dont have strong feelings & your way is probably better. i was just following the guidelines & making the Makah like the other members of the family. i guess you will get into this issue with others until they amend the categories explanation page (or maybe theyve already done so? i dont check that stuff). please continue making things easier for readers. peace – ishwar  (speak) 03:39, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: category

message: This is a great article but it does not cite any sources. BJTalk 20:16, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think there is a misunderstanding here - four sources are cited in the external links section.  John Broughton  |  Talk 22:25, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, but the sources are not cited throughout the article. BJTalk 22:51, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  True - not a good practice, but not unusual.  However, the question at hand is the use of the  template.  Template talk:Unreferenced doesn't seem to fully address this.  In any case, suppose I were to change the section heading for external links to read "References".  Would that rule out using this template?  I ask because as I read WP:CITE - and I'd appreciate your thoughts on that as well - such a heading is to be used for the section with the sources for the article, and I'm guessing (I came late to the party on this article) that the external links are in fact the sources.  John Broughton  |  Talk 00:32, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Unreferenced

message: This article was lacking several important historical facts and looked as if it needed a bit of rearranging, so I rewrote most of the sections in this article and added a section for Whaling and the Ozette dig.  I've cited references for a few of the additions, but let me know if I missed something.  I think it flows quite a bit better, but I'm sure it could still use some work.  I'm particularly troubled by the whaling section as it goes into a little more detail than I would like, but it didn't seem right to pare it down. Gobonobo 09:49, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Major Rewrite

message: I removed the line "Others maintain that just as other Americans are no longer allowed to kill whales, so the Makah should be forbidden as well." from the end of the whaling discussion; it didn't fit the portion to which it was added, and addresses a matter of opinion that is perhaps better addressed in a sub-section of the "Whaling" entry. The line doesn't flow from the text which precedes it, a discussion of the Makah treaty. These "other Americans" cannot hunt whales because they have no treaty right to do so. What they 'maintain' is irrelevant to the wording of the treaty, or the question of treaty rights. Besides, those 'other americans', the Eskimo, are active whalers. Apparently, some of these 'others' are still allowed to kill whales, rendering the line untrue, at the very least.
:I don't agree with this reasoning. At the time the treaty was signed, everyone whaled (not just Native people), as it was an essential economic activity. It's a case of the times changing, creating an uncertainty because the "other Americans" don't whale anymore. Since the "other Americans" don't whale anymore, does that make the Makah follow the "other Americans"? It's similar to the right to bear arms--which hinges in its amendment on "a well regulated militia"; ordinary citizens were expected to carry their own weapons to battle when needed. That's no longer the case because the "well regulated militia" isn't made up of ordinary citizens anymore. Badagnani 05:01, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Whaling treaty

message: 'Qwidiččaʔa·t' (Kwih-dich-chuh-ahtx) has unicode character F847 at the end. That displays as a question mark on my PC, and it probably should, being from the Unicode private use area. Is there another character that could be used? Could look like IPA phonetic are used to to write the Makah alphabet? 212.55.51.226 (talk) 11:49, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Character form the Unicode private use area 

message: I've added a bunch more images by Asahel Curtis from 1910 to :Commons:Category:Makah. Several are related to whaling. I suspect some of them should be used in this article. I leave it to someone else to decide which. - Jmabel | Talk 21:27, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  More images 

message: Don't know who added the edit to the whaling category stating that the Makah hunted Bowhead, but I've changed it to list gray whale, with a reference to the historical catch of humpback whales as well. The Makah never hunted Bowhead, and couldn't if they wanted to: Bowhead whales are not found in the northwest. It's likely that the author of the original edit was confusing the Alaskan Eskimo transfer of bowhead quota to the Makah to facilitate the harvest of gray whale. 66.51.133.246 (talk) 21:19, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Whaling 

message: I have removed the edit that indicated the IWC didn't directly issue the Makah a quota. While this is true, it reads like an editorial sidebar that doesn't flow from the text, and it doesn't apply to the statement "with the support of the IWC". The IWC worked directly with the Makah to develop a management plan for their particular hunt, as well as providing oversight to ensure that the hunt conformed to the IWC's standards for a humane hunt. Neither of these instances of direct IWC support had anything to do with their quota, the Alaskans, or the Chukotkans (Russia). If there is disagreement on the removal of this, I would suggest that the individual who would seek to restore the edit include reference to this direct, official and unmediated support for the Makah hunt. I think there is some confusion between "sanction" and "support" on the part of the editor: had the line referred to IWC sanction, the clarification would make sense. But the line specifically (and intentionally)says "support" instead of "sanction", and it is evident that the IWC provided official support to the Makah, in the fashion outlined above.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.51.133.246 (talk) 04:20, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  IWC 

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thread_title:  Assessment comment 

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message: I am working on an update to this page covering the structure of their society, cultural aspects and gender roles.Jagb1997 (talk) 03:57, 25 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding a paragraph in contemporary culture