Pompeii is appropriately discussed as an archaeological window into a vanished world.

Ozette is better understood as an archaeological contribution to the documented history of a living community.

The frame of “lost” or “vanished” does not apply to Ozette in the way it applies to Pompeii.

The Makah have not vanished.

Their village at Cape Alava was buried, and the community relocated, but the community itself persisted.

The culture documented in the Ozette assemblage is not a lost culture that archaeology recovered.

It is the ancestral culture of a living people, and the artifacts recovered at Ozette are the heritage of that living people.