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  • May 2008
    • Save a Food From Extinction: Eat It for Dinner

      Save a Food From Extinction: Eat It for Dinner

      (Newser) - Vanishing culinary breeds are getting a new lease on life, thanks to the efforts of an ethnobotanist with an interest in America's foodie past, the New York Times reports. While Makah ozette potato sounds like a "Final Jeopardy" answer, the once-endangered vegetable is one of the many culinary artifacts Gary Paul Nabhan aims to bring back to America's dinner tables. More »

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      food   endangered species   agriculture   crops   anthropology   gourmet dining   chickens   potato   Makah tribe

  • September 2007
    • 5 Held in Whale Shooting

      5 Held in Whale Shooting

      (Newser) - Five members of Washington's Makah Tribe were being held today after a harpooned California gray whale died as it headed out to sea. The AP reports that yesterday the tribesmen harpooned and shot the animal mammal with a .50 caliber machine gun. While the tribe has exercised its whaling rights for cultural purposes before, this shooting was probably illegal. More »

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      Washington   whale   Native American   tribal leaders   Native Groups   Makah tribe

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