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The Ozette Native American Village Archeological Site is the site of an archaeological excavation on the Olympic Peninsula near Neah Bay, Washington, United States.The site was a village occupied by the Ozette Makah people until a mudslide inundated the site around the year 1750. [3]
Neah Bay has an oceanic climate (Köppen: Cfb), common in the small coastal cities of Washington.Generally speaking, temperatures have little annual fluctuation being strongly influenced by the Pacific Ocean, with the warm currents and patterns of the west as well as the mountains to the east that shape an extremely light climate, even between places in close conditions.
The Makah Museum also known as the Makah Cultural and Research Center is an archaeological and anthropological museum on the Makah Indian reservation in Neah Bay, Washington.It houses and interprets artifacts from the Ozette Indian Village Archeological Site, a Makah village partly buried by a mudslide at Lake Ozette around 1750, [1] providing a snapshot of pre-contact tribal life.
The Makah Tribe: People of the Sea and the Forest, University of Washington Library; Makah Tribal Profile "Makah Prepare to Hunt Whales", Turtle Track; Andrew Engelson, "Makah Tribe's trail eases access to a wild stretch of coastline", Seattle Post-Intelligencer, November 20, 2003; Forks Guide – S.R. 112 to Neah Bay
S. Samish Island, Washington; Sammamish, Washington; Seattle; Semiahmoo Bay; Sequim Bay; Sequim, Washington; Shilshole Bay; Mount Shuksan; Similkameen River; Skagit Bay
The first Shaker Indian church, also called the "mother church", was built above Mud Bay near Olympia, Washington, near the homes the co-founders of the church. [7] [8]The original about 18-by-24-foot (5.5 m × 7.3 m) church was oriented in an east-west direction, in a manner that would set the pattern for subsequent church architecture.
Archaeological research suggests that Makah people have inhabited the area now known as Neah Bay for more than 6,000 years. Traditionally, the Makah lived in villages consisting of large longhouses made from western red cedar. These longhouses had cedar-plank walls which could be tilted or removed to provide ventilation or light.
Claplanhoo lobbied researchers and Washington state officials in an effort to keep the artifacts on Makah land. [1] Claplanhoo spearheaded the creation of the Makah Museum in Neah Bay, which houses the Ozette artifacts within the Makah Cultural and Research Center. [1] [2] The Makah museum and cultural center opened in 1979. In 2010, Ruth Kirk ...