1.   Some countries continue to hunt whales, even though they have no real use for them and the whales are in danger of extinction.

2.   And none of the living Makah have ever hunted a whale before.

3.   For the Makah, hunting whales has deep cultural and spiritual meaning.

4.   Japan hunts whales for what it calls research purposes.

5.   McCarty said he has wanted to hunt whales for a long time, long before they became news to the outside world.

6.   The Makah claim to have a subsistence need to hunt whales, which Watson asserts is also bogus.

7.   They fashioned eight-person canoes from cedar, and used the crafts to hunt whales on the high Pacific.

8.   They hunted whales, fished for salmon, and cut old-growth cedars for canoes, long houses, tools, baskets and fiber to make fabric.

9.   Though some Alaska natives have been allowed to hunt whales, the Makah is the only tribe in the country with such a treaty right.

10.   Whaling was a traditional Azorean occupation and for centuries the islanders hunted whales from shore in open boats.