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Steerpike

(2,693 posts)
Thu Oct 19, 2017, 09:09 AM Oct 2017

Youth keynote speaker addresses whale hunting, online harassment

http://www.ktva.com/story/36610127/youth-keynote-speaker-addresses-whale-hunting-online-harassment

The 34th Annual Elders and Youth Conference kicked off at the Dena’ina Center on Monday. Gambell teenager Chris Apassingok gave the youth keynote address to a packed house, talking about his experience as a hunter on St. Lawrence Island and landing a whale earlier this year.

“It was super exciting. I felt happy that I'm going to feed a lot of people,” Apassingok said.What the 17-year-old didn’t know is that his story of killing a bowhead whale would soon be shared around the world and not everyone understood the Alaskan way of life. Conservationist Paul Watson attacked Apassingok online, calling him a murderer in a now deleted post.

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Youth keynote speaker addresses whale hunting, online harassment (Original Post) Steerpike Oct 2017 OP
Geez... Steerpike Oct 2017 #1

Steerpike

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1. Geez...
Thu Oct 19, 2017, 12:27 PM
Oct 2017

With Friends like this who needs enemies? Natives should not have to put up with this shit...

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