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July 29, 2008

So much for the mythical American Indian environmentalist

Rotting caribou carcasses say the myth isn’t always true — not today, and it wasn’t true in the past. This isn’t “white man’s corruption.”
Hunters from the villages of Point Hope and Kivalina are suspected of massacring more than 100 caribou and leaving at least half of them to rot on the tundra earlier this month, according to Alaska Wildlife Troopers.

Investigators arriving at the scene found a total of 120 carcasses scattered along a 40-mile trail about 25 miles east of Point Hope, prompting them to call the killings "by far the worst case of blatant waste" they have ever seen, according to a trooper spokesperson. …

Point Hope is an Inupiat Eskimo village of 700 people 330 miles southwest of Barrow, an area considered one of the longest continuously occupied in the state.

Read the rest of the story for more. It is pretty disgusting.

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