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This Day in Coast Guard History – May 17

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May 17, 2010

1999-The Coast Guard "kept the peace" when the Makah Indian tribe hunted and killed a gray whale in Neah Bay, Washington.  The Makah were guaranteed the right to hunt whales in their 1855 treaty with the U.S.

(Source: USCG Historian’s)