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...the North Slope Inupiaq dialect ships, one of the voices users will hear is the rich, slow timbre of former Barrow whaling captain and Inupiaq language professor James Nageak. Nageak, 70, now lives in Anaktuvuk Pass, where he auditioned...
...more humane weaponry in the traditional hunt for bowhead whales. "It's a lot safer," said Eugene Brower, a Barrow whaling captain who chairs the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission's weapons improvement program. Brower trains Native whaling...
...happening to our state. If you don't believe scientists whose jobs are to study the environment, then ask a Barrow whaling captain or consider recent plans to develop newly opened northern shores. Cynicism deflects our discussion of climate...
...regional Native corporation instead chose Eugene Brower, North Slope Borough Fire Department chief and head of the Barrow Whaling Captains Association, to replace Leavitt. "I would like to thank the people for their vote of confidence in me," Brower...
...fall to discuss reinstatement of the bowhead quota for Alaska Eskimo whalers, according to the president of the Barrow Whaling Captains Association. "The IWC is planning to reconvene in October or November to hold an intercessional meeting to try...
...Highway route. Speaking on behalf of the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission, Charlie Neakok, vice president of the Barrow Whaling Captains Association, said: "The Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission is prepared to work cooperatively with the gas producers...
...Thanksgiving," he said. The holiday is a day of giving on the North Slope, said Brower, president of the Barrow Whaling Captains Association. Early Thanksgiving afternoon, the whalers, hunters and fishermen of Barrow and other villages...
...temperatures would be 20 to 30 degrees below zero, instead of the current plus temperatures, said George Ahmaogak, a Barrow whaling captain and mayor of the North Slope Borough.
...and the vanishing act is accelerating. ``There's been a lot of change,'' said Brower, president of the Barrow Whaling Captains Association. ``Last year the ice went over the horizon and stayed over the horizon all summer. We would have...
...rock-hard beneath a thin layer of greasy brown gunk. The bones come from a whale taken in the 1996 fall hunt by a Barrow whaling captain, Don Nungasak. For a long time the bones lay on a beach where the whale was butchered, he said. Then an appeal...