Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancestral seal hunting happened at the edge of the Sít Tlein (Hubbard) glacier. Emily Kearney ...

Four people, including a 9-year-old boy, who got trapped on an ice floe during a seal hunting expedition in Alaska were safely rescued, the U.S. Coast Guard said Wednesday, calling it one of the most ...

Also known as “seal parties,” the tradition brings women together to mark first catches and — more recently — other achievements as well. In some Alaska villages, hunting and fishing season starts ...

A ringed seal (Pusa hispida) peaks its head above water in the Laptev Sea near Bolshoy Begichev Island, Russia. ( Кирилл Уютнов/Wikimedia Commons via Courthouse News) (CN) — Conservation protections ...

Five hundred years ago, in a mountain-rimmed ocean fjord in southeast Alaska, Tlingit hunters armed with bone-tipped harpoons eased their canoes through chunks of floating ice, stalking seals near Sít ...

You value independent local news, so become a sustainer today to power our newsroom. Listen 3:22 How an Indigenous tradition that started with catching seals has evolved in Alaska Traditionally, ...