Biographical Timeline | Leadership Qualities | Makah Whaling | References
Yellak̓ub/Flattery Jack – Leadership Qualities
Biographical Timeline | Leadership Qualities | Makah Whaling | References
Yellak̓ub/Flattery Jack – Biographical Timeline
Biographical Timeline | Leadership Qualities | Voting Rights | References
Yellak̓ub – References
Biographical Timeline | Leadership Qualities | Makah Whaling | References
Miles, George A. James Swan, Cha-tic of the Northwest Coast: Drawings and Watercolors from the Franz & Kathryn Stenzel Collection of Western American Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.
Reid, Joshua L. The Sea Is My Country: The Maritime World of the Makahs. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015.
South Puget Sound Community College. “Whaling Rights from a Makah Perspective.” YouTube video, 55:33. Posted Feb. 16, 2011. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9Ma68LoYhg. Accessed December 5, 2017.
Yellak̓ub – Makah Whaling
Biographical Timeline | Leadership Qualities | Makah Whaling | References
In 1999, the Makahs harpooned a gray whale off of Washington State’s coast. This drew support from many Indigenous and non-Native allies and the wrath of some in the animal rights community. As a Makah himself, Yellak̓ub would have supported his people’s right to hunt whales, a customary practice in which they had engaged for 2,000 years.
Dr. Josh Reid
A member of the Snohomish Indian Nation, I am an associate professor of History and American Indian Studies at the University of Washington. My research agenda largely focuses on Indigenous marine space, although I am interested in a wide range of intersecting research fields, including Indigenous peoples, the North American West, Pacific worlds, US history, and environmental history. Yale University Press recently published my first book, The Sea Is My Country: The Maritime World of the Makahs, in the Henry Roe Cloud Series for American Indians and Modernity.
This examines the Makah Nation’s historical relationship with the ocean. I am currently researching a project about indigenous explorers in the Pacific Ocean, specifically focusing on those individuals who voluntarily traveled throughout the Pacific from the late eighteenth through late nineteenth centuries. At the UW, I teach courses in American Indian history, history of the North American West, and environmental history.
This digital history project is a capstone assignment for a course I regularly teach. Titled “Indigenous Leaders & Activists,” the course explores Indigenous leaders and activists across the world and throughout time. By reading about these leaders, students will examine issues of power, sovereignty, identity, and the role of the individual in influencing the course of history.