Literary and Cultural References
- The final scene of Jim Jarmusch's 1995 film Dead Man takes place in a reconstructed Makah village. Many of the actors featured in the scene are Makah tribal members and there is dialogue in the Makah language.
- The book Twilight by Stephenie Meyer contains references to the Makah people.
- The young adult book Ghost Canoe by Will Hobbs takes place on and near the Makah reservation.
- The historical-adventure novel When Wolf Comes by John Pappas gives a detailed glimpse into the lives of the Makah people of 1801.
- The book "Never Trust a White Man" by Arlyn Conly is an intriguing real life account by a white Home Economics teacher working in the Neah Bay High School in the late 1950's.
- The song "The Renegade" by Ian and Sylvia tells about the conflict of cultures of the son of a "Makah mother who marries a white man"
- In 2007, French writer Frédéric Roux published a novel L'hiver indien (éditions Grasset&Fasquelle). All the novel takes place among the Makah People, in Northwestern Washington. Its plot is about the struggle between traditions and modernity. All the characters are Makahs but two.
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