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After 20 years, Washington tribe hopes HEALTH

to hunt whales again DOCTOR ON DUTY

Oranjestad
By GENE JOHNSON TIMESHARE FOR SALE
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SEATTLE (AP) — Patrick De- 2 br oceanside $9000
Poe was in high school the Gold Season Week 31 San Nicolas
last time his Native Ameri- Unit #1607 IMSAN 24 Hours
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whales. He was on a ca- PHARMACY ON DUTY
noe that greeted the crew Oranjestad:
towing in the body of a Eagle Tel. 587 9011
gray whale. His shop class San Nicolas:
worked to clean the bones San Nicolas Tel. 584 5712
and reassemble the skele- Women in Difficulties
ton, which hangs in a tribal OTHER
museum. Dental Clinic 587 9850
Two decades later, he and Blood Bank Aruba 587 0002
Urgent Care 586 0448
the Makah Tribe — the only In this May 17, 1999, file photo, two Makah Indian whalers stand Walk-In Doctor’s Clinic
American Indians with a atop the carcass of a dead gray whale moments after helping +297 588 0539
treaty right to hunt whales tow it close to shore in the harbor at Neah Bay, Wash. Women in Difficulties
— are still waiting for gov- Associated Press EMERGENCY
ernment permission to hunt By 1994, gray whales in the ists, who sometimes threw Police 100
again as their people his- eastern Pacific Ocean had smoke bombs at the whal- Oranjestad 527 3140
torically did. The tribe, in rebounded and they were ers and sprayed fire extin- Noord 527 3200
the remote northwest cor- removed from the endan- guishers into their faces. Sta. Cruz 527 2900
ner of Washington’s Olym- gered species list. Seeing Others veered motorboats San Nicolas 584 5000
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pic Peninsula, hopes to use an opportunity to reclaim between the whales and Ambulancia 911
the whales for food and to its heritage, the tribe an- the tribal canoes to inter- Fire Dept. 115
make bone handicrafts, nounced plans to hunt fere with the hunt. Authori- Red Cross 582 2219
artwork and tools they again. ties seized several vessels
can sell. The tribe’s plans The Makah trained for and made arrests. TAXI SERVICES
have been tied up in legal months in the ancient ways After animal rights groups Taxi Tas 587 5900
fights and layers of scien- of whaling and received sued, the 9th U.S. Circuit Prof. Taxi 588 0035
Taxi D.T.S.
587 2300
tific review. The next step the blessing of federal of- Court of Appeals over- Taxi Serv. Aruba 583 3232
is a weeklong hearing be- ficials and the International turned federal approval of A1 Taxi Serv. 280 2828
fore an administrative law Whaling Commission. They the tribe’s whaling plans. Women in Difficulties
judge that began Thursday took to the water in 1998 The court found that the TRAVEL INFO
in Seattle. Whatever the re- but didn’t succeed until tribe needed to obtain a
sult, it’s likely to be stuck in the next year, when they waiver under the 1972 Ma- Aruba Airport 524 2424
further court challenges, as harpooned a gray whale rine Mammal Protection American Airlines 582 2700
animal rights activists have from a hand-carved cedar Act. Avianca 588 0059
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vowed to block the prac- canoe. A tribal member in The tribe applied in 2005. Surinam 582 7896
tice they call unnecessary a motorized support boat The process repeatedly
and barbaric. killed it with a high-pow- stalled as new scientific Women in Difficulties
“It shouldn’t have taken 20 ered rifle to minimize its suf- information about the CRUISES
years to be where we’re at fering. whales and the health
now,” said DePoe, a tribal The hunts drew protests of their population was
council member. “People from animal rights activ- uncovered.q
ask how it makes me feel.
I want to ask, ‘How does it
make you feel that this is
the process we’re having November 18
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right. It’s settled law.”
In 1855, the Makah, a tribe FAVI- Visually Impaired
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1,500, turned over 470 Alcoholics Anonymous
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kilometers) of land to the Narcotics Anonymous
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of taking fish and of whal-
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