RURAL INDIAN COMMUNITY TESTS THE WATER FOR INNOVATIVE OCEAN TECHNOLOGIES

摘要

On the most northwest point of the continental United States is a small reservation where four major rivers drain and flow into Washington's Puget Sound. On the Sound, the Makah people have for centuries fished the ocean waters. Their livelihood has been sustained by the ocean. Today, many of the 1,550 residents of the Makah Indian reservation live in subsistence. More than 70 percent of their income comes from fisheries, according to the Neah Bay Downtown Revitalization Master Plan. The ocean is the Tribe's food and income source. In a few years, the ocean may also become its source of energy production and potable water supply.