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Alaska Native whalers celebrate recent gains for Indigenous whaling at IWC

When Alaska Native subsistence whalers went out for this fall's hunt, it was the first in celebration of new International Whaling Commission rules that make subsistence whaling easier.

By Gregory Scruggs, Thomson Reuters Foundation December 6, 2018
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UTQIAGVIK, Alaska — A few days before Alaska Native whaling crews set out to into the Arctic Ocean in October, a congregation of several hundred gathered at the Utqiagvik Presbyterian Church to bless the bowhead whale hunt.

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