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  2. Makah - Wikipedia

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    The cedar tree was of great value to Makah, who also used its bark to make water-resistant clothing and hats. Cedar roots were used in basket making. Cedar roots were used in basket making. Whole trees were carved out to make canoes to hunt seals , gray whales and humpback whales .

  3. Ozette Indian Village Archeological Site - Wikipedia

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    The site was a village occupied by the Ozette Makah people until a mudslide inundated the site around the year 1750. [3] It is located in the now unpopulated Ozette Indian Reservation . The 22-mile-long Hoko-Ozette Road, accessed via Washington State Route 112 , terminates at the NPS Lake Ozette Ranger Station , within the coastal strip of ...

  4. Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast - Wikipedia

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    Often different northern tribes would adorn their possessions with symbols that represented a tribe as a collective (i.e., clan); this would often be a signal of differentiation among tribal groups. Such symbols could be compared to a coat of arms, or running up the flag of a country on a sailing ship, as it approached a harbour.

  5. Washington’s Makah Tribe could once again harpoon whales as ...

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    The Makah, a tribe of 1,500 people on the northwestern tip of the Olympic Peninsula, is the only Native American tribe with a treaty that specifically mentions a right to hunt whales.

  6. Nuu-chah-nulth - Wikipedia

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    Nuu-chah-nulth nations also used the wood and bark of red and yellow cedar trees as both a building material and to produce many different objects. Artists and wood workers within a nation would carve full logs into totem poles and ocean going canoes, and the bark would be torn into strips and softened in water until malleable enough to be ...

  7. A Hiker's Path: Solitude among the cedar trees worth trek to ...

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    The preserve is known for the 75-foot-high bluff that is covered in eastern red cedar trees that overlooks beautiful Clear Creek below. Cedar Bluffs Nature Preserve opened in 1976 and is owned by ...

  8. Peter Roose Homestead - Wikipedia

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    The Ozette Lake area of the Olympic Peninsula, Washington, is an area of dense temperate rainforest dominated by Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis), western red-cedar (Thuja plicata) and western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla), and was the home of the Makah Indians. [3]

  9. New tribal law protects culturally significant cedar trees - AOL

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    Giizhik trees are a type of tree that grows in many areas in the EUP, including places of great significance to local tribes. The oldest of the trees can live up to a thousand years, and some of ...