BELUGA WHALE HUNT (Point Lay, Alaska) | Inupiat and The Whales| 2007

Inupiat communities of Arctic Alaska primarily depend on marine mammals, including Bowhead and Beluga whales, seals, walrus, for subsistence food. Their cultural and spiritual identities are intimated tied to the whales and the Sea. The off-shore oil and gas development on the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas of the Alaskan Arctic is a human-rights issue for the Inupiat communities and they oppose these development projects.