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Whaler makes history as Barrow's first known woman to take a whale
Alaska Dispatch News ^ | Jillian Rogers

Posted on 10/06/2014 11:40:07 AM PDT by skeptoid

Bernadette Adams became the first known woman in Barrow history to harpoon a whale, when she struck the bowhead pictured here 20 miles offshore from the Arctic community.

Bernadette Adams remembers pitching fits as a young girl out on the sea ice wanting desperately to go out whaling with her father. With no brothers, her hunting career started at a young age. And last week, she made local history as the first woman in the community to harpoon a bowhead. Usually women don’t go out in boats with the whaling crews. And while community members in Barrow are touting her as the first woman to kill a whale, she’s actually not sure if that’s the case. But it doesn’t matter to her either way.

“Everyone keeps asking me but I just say ‘I don’t know, I don’t keep up with that, all I do is go whaling,’” said Adams, 31, last week.

(Excerpt) Read more at adn.com ...


TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Society
KEYWORDS: alaska; barrow
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To: martin_fierro; mikrofon
She blubbered all the way home.

You would too, if you had to push such a heavy whale-barrow.

21 posted on 10/06/2014 3:35:05 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson (Barrow metric pressure.)
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To: Charles Henrickson

I bet it nearly killed you trying to figure out where to use that pun...


22 posted on 10/06/2014 3:40:34 PM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: Charles Henrickson; martin_fierro
You would too, if you had to push such a heavy whale-barrow

Thanks for taking the harpoons for using that term before I got to post something .....

23 posted on 10/06/2014 4:28:59 PM PDT by mikrofon (Whaling may be Inuitive, but my native friends would have Nunavut...)
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