Re: [Paddlewise] Makah on PBS

> >> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> >> The News Hour with Jim Lehrer has an interesting segment on the Makah whale
> >> hunt tonight.  As usual for this program, the reporting seems well balanced
> >> and fair.
> >> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>
> > Could you give a summary for those who missed the report?
> >
> > Thanks...
> > Dan McCarty
> >The part I saw consisted mainly of an elderly man named John McCarty
> >claiming that everybody opposed to the killing was opposed because
> >they're getting rich from money being donated to them in return for their
> >opposition. His son, Micah McCarty, was also filmed arguing that the sea
> >and the whales belong to the Makah and nobody has any right to tell them
> >what to do with their property.
> >There was some coverage of an anti-whaling group, with the newspeople
> >trying to get the leader of that group to say he was going to get himself
> >into a naval confrontation with the Coast Guard and the Feds. He was
> >smarter than that.
> >Overall, I thought it was the usual shallow, inadequate coverage. You
> >didn't miss much beyond some nice video shots of the Makah's big dugout
> >canoe.

 LOL!  Ain't this interesting!  Looks like I found some long lost relatives!
 Are you sure they were MCCARTY and not the other side of the clan that spells
 their name with an H?

 My dad and grandpa always said we were part Indian.  But I did not think my
 family got much past Indiana?

 For the record Dear John and Micah are no relation!  That I know of.....  8-)

 Thanks for the info.
 Dan "My side of the family don't hunt Whales" McCarty




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