A major oil strike on ANWR's coastal plain, two miles south of Kaktovik, could mean a windfall for many of the Inupiat villagers. Still, their support for drilling there is tempered by concern ...

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 ...