ghts of the Makah to the whale hunt, the
             Clinton administration granted permission for the Makah to
             resume their traditional whale hunting activities (Strohm,
             1999). This permission was granted despite the protest
             from a number of interest groups. Even the Makah are not
             completely united on the issue of whaling (Russell, 1999).
             Several of their tribal members have, in fact, been quite
             outspoken against resuming whale hunting. One of the most
             adamant opponents to whaling who also happens to be Makah
             herself is seventy-four year old Alberta Thompson.
             Thompson has adamantly defended the whales and spoken out
             against hunting (Russell, 1999). She states:
             "My dream is that I wake up one morning and
             the Tribal Council has called a conference to
             make a statement: we now realize that the whale
             gave up his life for us a hundred years ago so
             that we could eat. Now we want to honor and
             ...