Photo by kiliiiyuyan / Sigvaun Kaleak wears a traditional Iñupiat camouflage parka, a sign of a lifelong whaler. European whaling decimated the global whale population in less than a century, resulting in the current backlash against whaling. Today Alaska's Iñupiat maintain a sustainable harvest of bowhead whales to feed their villages—as they have for millennia—more than doubling the whale population through careful management. Their culture's top priority is caretaking of the land and sea for future generations. Follow me kiliiiyuyan for more from the Arctic and beyond. #inupiat #indigenous #alaska