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    Arviq! (Bowhead!)

    uploaded by: Norman Cohn

    chaîne: MICH Living Archives

    In 1994, fulfilling the wish of 94 year-old Noah Piugattuk to taste whale-skin maqtaq once again before he passes away, a group of Igloolik hunters illegally catches a bowhead whale after years of government prohibition. This event which sparks a legal controversy, the hunters are charged, government policy is resisted, then changed..

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    uploaded date: 11-10-1994