Spirits of Our Whaling AncestorsFollowing the removal of the gray whale from the Endangered Species list in 1994, the Makah tribe of northwest Washington State announced that they would revive their whale hunts; their relatives, the Nuu chah nulth Nation of British Columbia, shortly followed suit. Neither tribe had exercised their right to whale in the case of the Makah, a right affirmed in their 1855 treaty with the federal government since the gray whale had been hunted nearly to