Subsistence hunting and fishing are always a contentious issue within the state of Alaska, but now the International Whaling Commission has stomped on the necks or should I say dinner tables of the ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Research on one of the oldest-living mammals - the bowhead whale - has helped preserve a primary food source for Eskimos in the far reaches of Alaska, and also may provide a ...

Introduction / Roger K. Harritt, Carol Zane Jolles, and Allen P. McCartney -- The archaeological imagination, zooarchaeological data, the origins of whaling in the western Arctic, and 'old whaling' ...

On a blindingly bright, frigid April morning, the first whale hunt of the year gets underway in the village of Gambell, Alaska, on the westernmost edge of St. Lawrence Island. Between boulder-sized ...

Alaska’s vast wilderness has long been a haven for hunters seeking adventure and the chance to pursue big game in one of the most rugged landscapes in the world. For the 2025-2026 hunting season, the ...

The Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission and two other Native organizations say they are “outraged” after a judge handed down a prison sentence and hunting restrictions for a whaling captain who shot and ...

A Trump-era decision to open the Tongass National Forest to large-scale road building and logging is about to be toppled. Alaskan Inuit have a new role with a United Nations agency in safeguarding ...