Shooting stuns whaling village on Alaska's North Slope

The community, known as Tikigaq in Inupiaq, is laid out in a treeless grid around the Tikigaq School — "Home of the Harpooners." The local cemetery is surrounded by a fence made of whale bones stuck upright in the tundra, and remnants of prehistoric sod-house villages sit nearby.

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