Scientists and Indigenous leaders team up to conserve seals and an ancestral way of life at Yakutat, Alaska
- Written by Aron L. Crowell, Arctic Archaeologist, Smithsonian Institution
Ancestral seal hunting happened at the edge of the Sít Tlein (Hubbard) glacier.Emily Kearney-Williams © Smithsonian InstitutionFive 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...