VANCOUVER, B.C. -- As Makah whale hunters and their attendant protesters gear up for another gray whale season off Washington's northwest coast, Inuit are quietly getting ready for their own whale ...

The hunt in Alaska is usually carried out in small wooden boats covered in seal-skin, although small modern boats are used in Nunavut. Once the whale is caught, it is quickly hauled to land and ...

On a remote fjord in northwest Greenland, traditional Inuit hunting techniques are being used to stick tiny, high-tech satellite tracking devices onto narwhals — a kind of Arctic whale famous ...

Greenland's relatively isolated indigenous culture finds itself increasingly exposed to the world just as Trump pushes to ...

Inuit whalers plying the Arctic inlets off the Beaufort Sea for their annual beluga hunt are worried about falling prey themselves-toconservationists.Anti-whaling groups are setting the stage for ...

Word of the feat swept through the widely scattered Inuit communities of Canada's eastern Arctic with uncanny speed, bringing whoops of jubilation, tears of joy. Hunters from this Baffin Island ...

His whaling episode is the low-key counterpoint to Angry Inuk, Alethea Arnaquq-Baril's impassioned cinematic plea for less meddling in the sustainable, economically important Inuit seal hunt.

Kristiansen shared his heritage with the crowd, his English halting. “I was born in ’60, and that time, every Inuit boy, he must be doing with hunting,” he said.

As a result, bowhead whale population estimates roughly tripled to more than 15,000 over the next three decades, leading to a gradual increase in the number of whales Alaska Inuit can harvest.

This is the moment an Inuk man, a member of the Inuit people, found a beluga whale stuck in shallow water in Quebec, Canada on November 27. The beluga was hunting when it accidentally entered the ...

Before that, there hadn’t been a successful whale hunt in over 100 years. “If Iqaluit does not get a whale and other communities do, Uasau will be a part of that,” Mr. Clarke said.