The International Whaling Commission (IWC) allows for whaling on otherwise protected animals when it is conducted by certain indigenous people to satisfy subsistence needs. The rules for aboriginal ...

Yugu Alfred Ningeok is the son of a whaling captain and a member of an Inupiat whaling crew. An umiak, or skin boat, carries a small team in pursuit of a whale. Hear more about camping on sea ice ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A shooting at a home in a remote Inupiat whaling village on Alaska's northwest coast has resulted in multiple deaths and injuries, but officials on Monday declined to ...

UIC provides warm storage space to local retailers, enabling delivery of 75,000 pounds of additional food supplies ahead of ...

Both landings led to outrage from Indigenous peoples—from both sides of the Strait—and redefined the organizations' stances on Indigenous whaling, leading to some long-lasting animosity. Dorsey, ...

The Native Hawaiian Economic Alliance selected Max Ahgeak, President of the Ukpeagvik Inupiat Corporation, to receive its “Native Hawaiian Business Champion Award” at the 5th Annual Native ...

Utqiaġvik’s village corporation is donating storage space for extra food stocked for a surge of winter visitors.

In 1958 the US Atomic Energy Commission planned to detonate thermonuclear bombs near Point Hope North Americas oldest continually inhabited settlement History of the Iñupiat Project Chariot tells ...