Links

Makah

Makah Nation site
Treaty of Neah Bay – Full text
Constitution and Bylaws of the Makah Indian Tribe of the Makah Indian Reservation
Makah Law and Order Code
Makah Community Portal – for members only
Makah Cultural and Research Center Online Museum – on University of Washington server
The Makah Nation on Washington's Olympic Peninsula
Virtual Guidebook: Cape Flattery and the Makah Indian Lands – VR panoramas
Clallam County site
Neah Bay / Cape Flattery – description and local history, on Forks Web
"Department of Defense to clean up Makah land" – an article in Indian Country Today, December 20, 2004
Wakashan Language Family

Legends and Myths

Makah Legend of Tsunami – On USGS site
Cascadia Megathrust Earthquakes in PNW Indian Legend – University of Washington Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences
Dating the 1700 Cascadia Earthquake: Great Coastal Earthquakes in Native Stories
Native lore tells the tale: There's been a whole lotta shakin' goin' on
When the Animals and Birds Were Created
Thunderbird and Whale: The Flag of the Makah Nation

Department of Defense

Defense Environmental Network and Information Exchange (DENIX)
DoD Scientific & Technical Information
Native American Lands Environment Mitigation Program (NALEMP)
Department of Defense's Native American Environmental Tracking System (NAETS)

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)

The United States Army Corps of Engineers Information Network Home Page
US Army Corps of Engineers, Seattle District Home
Seattle District USACE Regulatory Program

Other Agencies

Indian Health Services (IHS) – U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Development Service (USDA-RD)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA)

USEPA Region 10 Tribal Programs
USEPA :: Waste Management in Indian Country
USEPA :: Brownfields Cleanup and Redevelopment
USEPA :: Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER)

Maps and Aerial Photos

Shoreline Aerial Photographs – On Washington Dept. of Ecology's site
Digital Orthophoto Quadrangles, from USGS:

MAKAH BAY NE quadrant, WA, 3.75-MIN B/W, 1994/07/19 – Makah Bay and Waatch site.
NEAH BAY NW quadrant, WA, 3.75-MIN B/W, 1994/07/19 – Neah Bay.
CAPE FLATTERY SE quadrant, WA, 3.75-MIN B/W, 1994/07/19 – Classet/Midway area
CAPE FLATTERY SW quadrant, WA, 3.75-MIN B/W, 1994/07/19 – Tatoosh Island
NEAH BAY SW quadrant, WA, 3.75-MIN B/W, 1994/07/19 – Grimes Creek/south C-Z site

DRG files in Cape Flattery – 1:24K (7.5-minute), 100K and 250K quads in raster format

History

University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections
The Makah Tribe: People of the Sea and the Forest
Waaddah Island LSS – history of the Waadah Island station, on US Coast Guard page

History of Defense Sites

The White Alice Communication System – amateur historian page
DEW Line Sites – another amateur historian page
Washington Forts
Information for Makah AFS, WA – on Online Air Defense Radar Museum site, Air Defense Radar Veterans' Association

Tatoosh Island and Lighthouse

Thomas, J.E. Photograph Collection – List of photographs at Tatoosh Island, from the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies catalog
Tatoosh Island Cemetery

Cape Flattery Lighthouse

WA 23. Cape Flattery Lighthouse
Cape Flattery Lighthouse, Washington
Cape Flattery Light
The History of Tatoosh Island – Winifred Elyea, 1927; from the University of Washington Libraries
Cape Flattery Light – Inventory of Historic Light Stations: Washington Lighthouses, on National Park Service site
"Cape Flattery Light on Tatoosh Island begins operating on December 28, 1857"

Weather Station

Station TTIW1 - Tatoosh Island, WA – on National Data Buoy Center site, National Weather Service
Tatoosh Island WB, Washington (458332) – on Western Regional Climate Center site
U.S. Army Signal Corps Annual Reports – Tatoosh Weather Station is found in years 1883-1891
Women in the Weather Bureau in World War II: Personal View of LaVera Roland – on NOAA History site

Bird Studies

The Common Murres of Tatoosh Island, Olympic Coast – on National Public Radio
Murre-maid of Tatoosh – an article in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Direct and indirect effects: Interactions between bald eagles and common murres – a paper published in Ecological Applications, 11(6), 2001, pp. 1858–1869
Common Murre on Tatoosh Island, WA – a podcast.

Other Biological/Biodiversity Information

Survival & Diversity on Tatoosh Island – Join ecologists as they journey to a remote island in the Pacific Northwest to examine causes and effects of species extinction. On the University of Chicago site.
Small Takes of Marine Mammals Incidental to Specified Activities; Tatoosh Island, WA Storage Tank Removal Project – on U.S. EPA site
"Discovery Island" – An article in the December 2005 issue of the University of Washington Alumni Magazine.