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A Whale Hunt: How a Native-American Village Did What No One Thought It Could Paperback - 2002
by Sullivan, Robert
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The story of a Native American tribe's quest to re-institute a long-forgotten tradition, "A Whale Hunt" is a gloriously idiosyncratic fusion of travelogue, ecology, history, moral controversy, and high-seas adventure.
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- Title A Whale Hunt: How a Native-American Village Did What No One Thought It Could
- Author Sullivan, Robert
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Condition UsedAcceptable
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Scribner Book Company, New York, NY
- Date 2002-05-16
- Features Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 531ZZZ028G3U_ns
- ISBN 9780684864341 / 0684864347
- Weight 0.82 lbs (0.37 kg)
- Dimensions 8.52 x 5.51 x 0.72 in (21.64 x 14.00 x 1.83 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1950-1999
- Cultural Region: Pacific Northwest
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Cultural Region: West Coast
- Ethnic Orientation: Native American
- Geographic Orientation: Washington
- Topical: Ecology
- Library of Congress subjects Public opinion - United States, Makah Indians - Hunting
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00030108
- Dewey Decimal Code 639.280
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Before there was a whale hunt; before seven members of the Makah-a small tribe of Native Americans situated at the very northwestern tip of the United States-climbed into a canoe and paddled out into the ocean that first was calm and then swelled like a man drunk with power, oblivious to the paddlers who were singing and praying and carrying a harpoon and a rifle capable of killing an elephant, much less a whale; before the whale came; before that canoe and the men in the canoe paddled after it and a harpoon was launched and the whale dragged the canoe and a bullet was fired and the whale was killed and then nearly lost but then recovered; before the whale was towed into Neah Bay, the tiny and tired little fishing village that is for all intents and purposes the capital of the Makah reservation; before the people of the town rejoiced because it had been so many years-an entire generation, in fact-since a whale had been haunted and killed and because the hunting of the whale is what has for thousands
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- New York Times, 05/26/2002, Page 20