Thank you for your coments and I promise you, to keep you spell bound on the edge of your seat. I

These women work so incredbily hard all day - "all long day long " this is no easy task to cook for a whaling crew. The Captain 8 hunters, a boyer, and 3 - 5 women to do all of this work every day, no pay, just to eat... that is all your going to get out of this.. The right to eat. That is all these people want !! Leave us alone !
No agency, No commission, No person, No one has the right to tell these people you may not eat your food !!

Japan last year harvested 1000 whales for scientific research. they kept all the meat, and threw the rest away.. (the important part).. this is a criminal actl despite the warnings and such from the International Whaling commission, nothing was done and Japan is at it again this year.

the people of Point Hope managed to harvest just 3 small whales to feed over 800 people and that is not enough to feed this village for the whole year..

What is wrong with this warped formula ? We are under a quota system..

we now play baseball.. 3 strikes and your out.! go home, you cannot eat your food, and we have to obey !! There is no one out on that ice watching us.. but we obey.

In 1982 A federal team of biologists were in the village to partake of a cenus of the bowhead population.

Isn't Greenpeace a lovely world organization.? They go so far out of the way to lie, and cheat to promote their way.
In Boston Mass in 1983 I was there, with my albumn, Stop the Eskimo's from hutning and killing whales. There are only 250 Right Whales leftl ! Stop the Eskimo's !!

I went into to visit greenpiece.. er excuse me.. Isn't a right whale, the same thing as a bowhead whale. ?? Er .. " Well yes it is !" I showed them my album. they kicked me out !

These biologists that were sent to the village to take this cencus with all of their sophisticated equipment.. was a complete joke !!

In a one months time, they counted 15,000 whales !! They did not take into account how many whales migrated before they arrived. They did not take into account how many whales mirgrated after they left and they only conted the whales they could lsee.

The elders scoffed at that figure 15,000 there is more like 200,000 is the true estimate ! We see these whales each and every year. and some of what I am about to tell you about the whale will astound you, and make you sit up and take notice and THINK !!!



That is a lot of cooking to accomplish, In such a tiny place, to prepare food for that many people, every day, 4 - 5 times a day, for two whole months !! There is no kitchen sink, inside of that tent. and everything has to be washed and cleaned. Even the plywood on that floor is cleaned every single morning.





Each week this tent must be moved to a new location. The tent begins to sink into the ice frm the heat from that wood stove. Everything is broken down, the tent moved and the stove pipes must be cleaned out from all the soot that piles up inside of them.

This is no easy task and the boyers job and the job of children is to clean these pipes out, by filling them with snow, repeatidly, which accomplishes this easy but necessary task.

If you get that tent too hot, put a little bit too much "sicpan" inside of that stove and it is very easy to burn down that tent. I have never seen any boyer burn down a tent, but I have seen two captains burn down their tent. too much wood, or too much sicpan, that will be all that it takes to cause that tent to catch on fire.!

anything can happen out here, Polar bears are a very big problem, we do not hunt the polar bear, they are too dangerous and extremly unpredictable. In fact, each month, certain women must get off the ice and head back to town, YOU present too much of a danger for all of us out here. ..get off the ice, go home, come back in a week, or so.

these animals have a very strong unique sense of smell. and sight !
a polar bear can smell the presence of blood, from many miles away. We aer always on guard from attaks from these magnificent animals. There is so much you do not know about a polar bear .!!






although they look so beautiful and magnificent, they are ferocious beasts of prey and they will eat anything they can sink their teeth into.

Time to "pause" here.