Spirits of our whaling ancestors
Subtitle: revitalizing Makah and Nuu-chah-nulth traditions
By: Charlotte Coté ; foreword by Micah McCarty.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Capell family book
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Seattle
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780295990460
Subjects: Makah Indians -- Ethnic identity; Makah Indians -- Hunting; Makah Indians -- Social life and customs; Whaling -- Social aspects -- Northwest, Pacific
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : honoring our whaling ancestors; title: Tsawalk / The centrality of whaling to Makah and Nuu-chah-nulth Life; title: Utla / Worldviews Collide ; The arrival of Mamalhn'i in Indian Territory; title: Kutsa / Maintaining the cultural link to whaling ancestors; title: Muu / The Makah harvest a whale; title: Sucha / challenges to our right to whale; title: Nupu / Legal impediments spark a 2004 whale hunt; title: Atlpu / restoring Nanash'agtl communities.