As Native villages across Alaska struggle to rediscover traditions lost to time, death and colonialism, a little-known 1970 whale hunt proves it is possible to bring back the past and hold on to ...

After the Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023 premiere of "One With the Whale" at the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention, the Apassingok family received a standing ovation from the crowd.

About the Documentary. Hunting whales is a matter of life or death for the residents of St. Lawrence. When a shy Alaska Native teen becomes the youngest person ever to harpoon a whale for his ...

For many Alaska Native communities, subsistence hunting and fishing is a way of life. For the Apassingok family, it accounts for more than 80 percent of their food. If Daniel Apassingok and his sons, ...

In the early 2000s, the plight of the whales spurred action: The area’s Indigenous groups gave up hunting in 2005. And yet, the whales’ numbers continue to slowly drop. In 2008, the Cook Inlet ...

Bowhead whales, which live in the Beaufort and Bering seasbetween Russia and Alaska, are a species of baleen whale, which eatby using baleen bristles to filter krill and fish from the oceanfor food.

This waiver allows the tribe to hunt up to 25 Eastern North Pacific gray whales over 10 years, with a limit of two to three per year. There are approximately 20,000 whales in that population.