The Inuit hunt the toothed whales with harpoons and rifles under strict quotas, with the once lucrative export of the tusks banned since 2004. But climate change is squeezing the narhwal's habitat ...

The captains formed the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission ... But to even prepare to hunt whales is to be intimately familiar with the seasonal cycles of the Arctic. Harry is also Arnold’s ...

known as the paleo-Inuit or Saqqaq, may have been eating large amounts of bowhead whale. But these 4,000-year-old "dumpsters" are from millennia before humans had specialized technology to hunt ...

Visual artist Jonathan Harris goes on an incredible quest to document an Alaskan tribal whale hunt. He discusses how a group of men slay a 40 ton whale with a handheld harpoon and how whale meat ...

2004-08-29 04:00:00 PDT Gambell , Alaska-- When it became clear that the elders in this isolated Eskimo village on ... servant for a year, hunting seal, whale and polar bear, and doing chores ...

That effort stemmed from an unfunded mandate from the International Whaling Commission to improve hunting efficiency, said Eugene Brower, longtime chairman of the Eskimo commission's Weapons ...