Renewable Resources of the Beaufort Sea for Our Children: Perspectives from an Inuvialuit Elder

Abstract

... Whaling has been going on in the Western Arctic for many hundreds of years, maybe thousands, according to our stories, which were passed on orally from generation to generation as the Inuvialuit had no writing system. The way whaling is done has changed four times over the past century. ... [The author, Billy Day, describes these phases.]