NEAH BAY — A Makah tribal member has been recruited to head up the first statewide effort to coordinate tourism among Washington’s 29 tribes.

Donna Wilkie, Makah land use and tourism planner for more than a decade, was named Tuesday as the new head of a $300,000, 15-month program linking growing tribal tourism efforts.

Among Wilkie’s duties will be organizing an intertribal tourism conference, creating the state’s first tribal tourism Web site and developing the first color travel brochure featuring Washington tribes.

The program is being funded by the federal Administration for Native Americans and Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians Economic Development Corp.

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