The inuit try and get a whale,,,,,,,,,,,which could feed a whole village for a year...........Russians did the same..............Siberians...........Northern Japanese..........Koreans...........Chinese...........etc...............Boston,,,,,,,,,,,,Nantucket...................Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" is about New England's whaling industry................



Building ships for exploration is not the only reason humans make them............i think they started as fisherman............it is hard to stand in the surf and get a ton of fish...........and as our ancestors got better at boat building, they got braver,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,and took to deeper parts of the sea..........

Civilization.ca - First Peoples of Canada - Arctic Whalers

www.historymuseum.ca/cmc/exhibitions/aborig/fp/fpz3a05e.shtml

 

Early Inuit were already accomplished whalers when they began moving into Arctic Canada about 1,000 years ago. Like Inuit today, early Inuit depended on a  ...

Traditional Whaling

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University of Arkansas

Traditional Eskimo whaling of the Western Arctic consists of the shore-based pursuit of ... A few communities have an opportunity to engage in fall whaling when  ...

Save (most of) the whales: Greenpeace now supports Inuit ...

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National Post

Aug 15, 2014 - Ansgar Walk / WikimediaInuit woman and child standing on a bowheadwhale after a 2002 subsistence hunt in Igloolik, Nunavut in 2002.

Save the whales? Inuit whalers wary of Whaling ...

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Alaska Dispatch News

Oct 8, 2013 - If new minke whale-harvest quotas are imposed on traditional whalehunters of Greenland, the Inuit have threatened to ignore any ...