Tribe apologizes for whale shooting
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Leaders of the Makah Tribe apologized to federal officials and members of Congress on Wednesday for the unauthorized killing of a gray whale off the coast of Washington state.
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A decomposing whale washed up yesterday near Scotch Beach. Reports indicate the whale is baleen, using plates along its upper jaw to strain food from water, said Scott Comings, director of Block Island programs for The Nature Conservancy.
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Australia apologized on Wednesday for the historic mistreatment of Aborigines, heralding a new era in race relations and moving indigenous people to tears as huge crowds cheered across the nation.
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A 50-ton bowhead whale caught off the Alaskan coast last month had a weapon fragment embedded in its neck that showed it survived a similar hunt &#151; more than a century ago.
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The government finally apologizes to Aborigines forcibly taken from their families over the course of six decades. But don't ask for compensation
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The U.S. government's main  disaster-response agency apologized on Friday for having its  employees pose as reporters in a hastily called news conference  on California's wildfires that no news organizations attended.
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After slaughtering their parents, Joseph McEnroe apologized to his girlfriend's young niece and nephew before shooting both in the head to end a Christmas Eve massacre, prosecutors alleged Friday.
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NORTH VERNON, Ind. - When hunter Jim Mick went into the woods to bag himself a deer, he never expected to come out empty-handed - and badly bruised.  The 69-year-old bowhunter was treated for injuries he said he suffered during a wrestling match with an angry buck.
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The Makah Indian Tribe's whaling commission did not authorize the killing of a gray whale that died after being harpooned and shot several times in northwest Washington's Strait of Juan de Fuca, a member of the tribal panel said.
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A man suspected in the killings of six hunters told investigators he began firing after he was shot at first and some of the victims called him racially derogatory names, according to documents filed Tuesday.
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The man suspected of shooting six hunters to death and a survivor agree that the tragedy began with a confrontation on private land. But they sharply differ on what happened next.
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By Kevin Howe, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Sep. 17--Saving the whales is no job for amateurs.
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A Native American tribe is alarmed at the upcoming sale of a piece of the Willamette Meteorite.
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Dozens of Aborigines are preparing compensation claims after Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologised this week for past injustices, an indigenous spokeswoman said Friday.
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Scientists and National Park Service workers were working Sunday to collect samples and clean up whale carcasses after 33 of the marine mammals beached themselves between Buxton and Corolla. Seventeen died, including five that were euthanized because they were suffering.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - The International Whaling Commission renewed a five-year whaling quote for indigenous people in the United States and Russia on Tuesday, allowing Alaska Natives to continue hunting bowhead whales for subsistence purposes.
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Two years after denying Endangered Species Act protection to killer whales that live much of the year near Washington's San Juan Islands, the federal fisheries agency said Thursday it plans to list the struggling population as a threatened species.