Quincy Adams slices through bowhead whale meat to distribute to his family and community members in Utqiaġvik (formerly Barrow), AK on April 24, 2024. (Valerie Lake/Alaska Public Media). For the Aaluk ...

This monument made of whale bones is to lost sailors. Associated Press No roads lead to Barrow, Alaska. To reach America’s northernmost city (pop. 4,500), you must fly or, sea ice permitting, take a ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published in the Arctic Sounder in May 2022. When late Utqiagvik Elder Warren Matumeak began to document whaling trails, he sketched a handwritten map of the ...

I met two Inupiat whaling captains during my first month in Barrow, Alaska. I had arrived in early January 1997. Aside from a glow on the horizon at midday, daylong darkness still prevailed. The ...