Ozette...another (not) "lost" community

A few weeks ago I posted about Port Crescent, calling it a "Lost City".  There are a number of places along Washington's coast that people used to call home, but now don't.  Many of those places, like Port Crescent, were abandoned due to economic or demographic forces.  Some, like Ozette, were abandoned for different reasons: according to sources I've spoken to within the tribe, the residents of Ozette were more or less required to leave when their children were required to attend school, but no school was provided to the village.  People had to leave. But its definitely a misnomer to call Ozette "lost"...it is very much alive in the hearts of many and clearly not truly lost.

Ozette was one of the five main village sites of the Makah, and in the 1890's the site was heavily developed:

1890's photo of residences at Ozette.  Photo courtesy of the Burt Kellogg collection, hosted by the North Olympic Library.  

The site is now on a small sliver of the Makah Tribe's reservation, surrounded on all sides by the extraordinary wilderness coastal strip of Olympic National Park.  Here is today's view:

29 June 2020 photo of Ozette.  The building in the foreground is an abandoned National Park Service building.