Above: “We’re getting the muktuk (whale
skin and blubber) ready to serve during
Thanksgiving. We caught this bowhead
whale – we’re allowed three, our quota.
We lost one, so we asked one of the other
villages if it was OK to have one of theirs,
and we are thankful to them for giving one
up. We knew we’d be short on muktuk if we
had only two. You try to cut them up and get
them put away before the polar bears get to
them. There’s 24-hour Nanuq patrol during
whaling, because we’ve got bears waiting.”
Marie Rexford, Inupiaq from Kaktovik
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(Frankie)
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