Decision will allow limited ceremonial and subsistence hunting by the Tribe in accordance with long-standing treaty rights, international quotas
![Photo showing the Makah Tribe in a wooden canoe used to hunt whales at Neah Bay on the Olympic Peninsula in 1900. Photo courtesy Museum of History and Industry, Negative Number 88.33.122. (Image credit: With permission from the Museum of History and Industry, Negative Number 88.33.122.) Photo showing the Makah Tribe in a wooden canoe used to hunt whales at Neah Bay on the Olympic Peninsula in 1900. Photo courtesy Museum of History and Industry, Negative Number 88.33.122.](/sites/default/files/styles/landscape_width_1275/public/2024-06/PHOTO-Makah-Tribe-hunted-whales-in-hand-carved-canoes-Neah-Bay-Olympic-Peninsula-1900-Museum-of-History-and-Industry-Negative-Number-88-33-122.jpg?h=8471997e&itok=UDb3nFme)
The Makah Tribe long hunted whales in hand-carved canoes, such as this one landing at Neah Bay on the Olympic Peninsula about 1900. They voluntarily stopped hunting gray whales in 1928 as commercial whaling depleted the species, which has since recovered in the eastern Pacific. (Image credit: With permission from the Museum of History and Industry, Negative Number 88.33.122.)