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Makah

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Makah (mäkô`), Native North Americans who in the early 19th cent. inhabited Cape Flattery, NW Wash. According to Lewis and Clark they then numbered some 2,000. The Makah are the southernmost of the Wakashan branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock, being the only member of the Wakashan group within the United States (see Native American languages Native American languages, languages of the native peoples of the Western Hemisphere and their descendants. A number of the Native American languages that were spoken at the time of the European arrival in the New World in the late 15th cent.
..... Click the link for more information. ). Makah culture was fundamentally that of the Pacific Northwest Coast area. In 1855 they ceded all their lands to the United States except a small area on Cape Flattery that was set aside as a reservation. Today most of the 1,600 Makah in the United States live on the Makah Reservation; their main tribal income is from forestry.
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I guess we're just anxious to see what they find out," says Dave Sones, vice chair of the Makah Tribal Council, whose tribe owns Tatoosh Island at the extreme northwestern tip of the U.
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He spent five and a half years getting to know these waters while living on the Neah Bay Indian Reservation in the 1970s as director of natural resources and economic development for the Makah Nation.
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My first experience as a school counselor was in Neah Bay, Washington, the home of the Makah Indian Nation.
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