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Spirits of Our Whaling Ancestors will appeal to a wide audience. Natives and non-Natives... North American historians... Environmental and legal scholars... The cohort belonging to the emerging field of food studies... -- Rachel Herrmann Pacific Northwest Quarterly A relatively small book of potentially immense importance. The central issue it covers... is one that resonates with attempts by indigenous people worldwide to maintain their customary subsistence patterns. Indigenous Peoples Issues and Resources An examination of the issues surrounding indigenous whaling, brought into the public spotlight when the Makah tribe of Washington and the Nuu-Chah-Nulth nation of British Columbia decided to resume whale hunting. Seattle Times Cote does an excellent job of tracing the various strands that led up to the 1999 Makah hunt and includes a cultural overview and background as well as politco-legal and environmental contexts... As a member of the Nuu-chah-nulth First Nation and a descendent of a prominent whaling lineage, the information she has access to and the insights it provides make this book unique. Choice

This work by an Indigenous scholar, trained in the academy who also has hereditary rights to particular kinds of information and who shares the traditions of her own family and community, makes a powerful contribution to Northwest Coast indigenous and environmental history. -Coll Thrush, author of Native Seattle; Stories from the Crossing-Over Place An excellent and timely book that chronicles the revitalization of the honored whaling tradition among the Makah and Nuu-chah-nulth but also raises broader issues of eco-colonialism, identity, and self-determination within the cultural nexus and political ecology of modern environmentalism and indigenous hunting economies. -Thomas Thornton, author of Being and Place among the Tlingit

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Charlotte Cote is associate professor of American Indian studies at the University of Washington.

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