"It's a lot safer," said Eugene Brower, a Barrow whaling captain who chairs the Alaska Eskimo Whaling ... time toward a more humane and efficient hunt, and we've been supportive.

The tiny Inupiat Eskimo village—a smattering of tin roofs ... this little-known 1970 whale hunt proves it is possible to bring back the past and hold on to it for the future.

"It is not unusual for Barrow whalers to be hunting into the month of November," Arnold Brower, executive director of the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission, said in an email, using the old name for ...

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 ...

and is monitored by the International Whaling Commission. A hunting quota for the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission was recently renewed, allowing 255 whales to be harvested by 10 Alaskan villages ...

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 ...

Inuit hunters have waited for a century for ... "So glad to hear about the bowhead whale hunt in Iqaluit today - keeping traditional lifestyles alive and well!" But local success doesn't come ...

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA - Eskimo whale hunters are switching from 19th-century black powder to an explosive considered more humane. During a traditional bowhead whale hunt, a hunter in a wooden-ribbed ...