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Just days after a pilot whale hunt took place near Tórshavn, the capital of the Faroe Islands, the remnants of the event had ...
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 ...
By contrast, the hunting traditions of the Inuit are alive and relatively healthy. Landing the whale Whale-hunts are governed by strict rules both in Alaska and the Canadian autonomous territory of ...
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 ...
New DNA evidence from a 4,000-year-old archaeological site along the coast of Greenland suggests the paleo-Inuit or Saqqaq culture ate large amounts of whale. But how?
Greenland's relatively isolated indigenous culture finds itself increasingly exposed to the world just as Trump pushes to ...
The Inuit say that the whales belong to them, not the world, and that neither environmentalists nor the International Whaling Commission have any business criticizing the hunt.
Mads Ole Kristiansen, an Inuit from Qaanaaq, the closest village to Thule Air Base, Greenland, came to Knud Rasmussen’s Community Center on the base to explain traditional hunting practices.
Inuit whalers plying the Arctic inlets off the Beaufort Sea for their annual beluga hunt are worried about falling prey themselves-to conservationists. Anti-whaling groups are setting the stage for… ...
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 ...
The bowhead whale has long held a place of cultural and traditional significance with the Inuit, but colonial whale hunting threw a wrench in the tradition over the last century.