Seal hunting is part of the fabric of Inuit culture in extreme northern Canada, providing food and pelts for clothing as far back as the people known as Eskimos down south can remember.

Kristiansen shared his heritage with the crowd, his English halting. “I was born in ’60, and that time, every Inuit boy, he must be doing with hunting,” he said.

It says the annual Inuit seal hunt in the Arctic is 100% sustainable and that the catch is around 200,000 animals a year out of a growing seal population of around 12 million.

Greenland's relatively isolated indigenous culture finds itself increasingly exposed to the world just as Trump pushes to ...

Since the 1960s, animal-rights activists have proclaimed that Canada’s seal hunt is barbaric and unsustainable, without knowing how drastically these notions affect Inuit communities that depend ...

A new pan-Arctic Inuit organization is taking its case on seal hunting directly to the European Parliament on Thursday. The organization called Inuit Sila is based in Copenhagen and has been ...

PETA accepts Inuit invitation to seal hunt One of the world’s most vehement animal-rights organizations has accepted an invitation to go seal-hunting in Nunavut – but ...

Two hunters aim to reconcile stereotypes on seal-hunting and provide Inuit in Ottawa with cherished “country food.” Last week marked 2nd year of hunting for the initiative, Reconseal Inuksiuti ...

Seal hunters return to the ice floes off Canada's (search) East Coast this Tuesday, with animal welfare activists vowing to vigorously protest the annual event that helps support the fishermen and ...