The Native Village Buried By A Mudslide For 500 Years — And The 55,000 Artifacts Found Preserved Beneath The Mud

Five centuries later, the archive was opened, and what was found within it was not a mystery but a recognition: this was us.

This is who we have been.

This is the material record of the life that our oral history has remembered and that our cultural practices have maintained.

The mud kept the wood.

The community kept the meaning.

Together, they are one of the most remarkable contributions to human historical knowledge that the twentieth century produced.

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The Makah Language and the Objects It Names