APNewsBreak: Alaska Natives believed whale hunt was legal
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Indigenous hunters in Alaska initially believed they were legally hunting a beluga whale when they unlawfully killed a protected gray whale with harpoons and guns after the massive animal strayed into a river last year, a federal investigative report said. After the shooting began, the hunters then believed the whale to be a bowhead, according to the report released to The Associated Press last week through a public records request. "The hunters also believed that if they were the first ones to shoot or harpoon the ...
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