Indian Country: Walter Ward swept an arm over a pebbled beach, backed by a tight wall of evergreens and strewn with logs tossed by passing storms. Ward grew up on this piece of northern Washington coast, in a thriving Hoh tribal village that was here ”forever,” he said. ”The houses used to be along the top of the hill, and all along the beaches.” Artifacts in the area date back 12,000 years. Today, all that’s left of his childhood home are two vacant houses and a road nibbled away by an …