Makah

American  

[muh-kaw] / məˈkɔ /

noun

PLURAL

Makahs

PLURAL

Makah

1. a member of an American Indian people of the Olympic Peninsula in northwest Washington.

2. the Wakashan language of the Makah.

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Example Sentences

“When I walk into my garden and can see lettuce grown by Thomas Jefferson, a pepper variety brought by Italian immigrants, an onion introduced at Walla Walla by a French soldier who carried it from Corsica or a potato grown by the Makah people, the stories associated with those crops feed my spirit as much as the food nourishes my body,” he adds.

From Seattle Times

Driftwood, the bar restaurant with the prime real estate across from Alki Beach, runs a seafood dinner menu with fish sourced from tribes, such as black cod from the Makah Indian Nation and white sturgeon from the Yakama Nation.

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No stranger to extractive industries, he worked in Alberta’s tar sand oil fields before working until retirement as a police officer at the Makah Nation, the Quinault Indian Nation and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

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In the Cape Flattery School District in Neah Bay, the Makah Tribe partners with schools to offer a dual language program.

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Midden sites — archaeological sites including domestic waste — along Washington’s north coast have revealed the northern fur seal had long been one of the top food sources for the ancestors of the Makah Tribe and other coastal tribes, said Jon Scordino, Makah marine mammal biologist and a member of the committee that led the new report.

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