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 ...

Bill Hess, an Alaskan writer and photographer, is one of this breed. His goal is not just to introduce us to the Inupiat Eskimos of northern Alaska and their whale-centered culture, but to ...

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 ...