Trailer | One With the Whale
Preview: Season 25 Episode 15 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
An Alaska Native family faces backlash from environmentalists due to whale hunting.
Hunting whales is a matter of life or death for the residents of St. Lawrence. When a shy Alaska Native teen becomes the youngest person ever to harpoon a whale for his village, his family is blindsided by thousands of keyboard activists brutally attacking him online—without full perspective on the importance of the hunt to his community's well-being.
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Trailer | One With the Whale
Preview: Season 25 Episode 15 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Hunting whales is a matter of life or death for the residents of St. Lawrence. When a shy Alaska Native teen becomes the youngest person ever to harpoon a whale for his village, his family is blindsided by thousands of keyboard activists brutally attacking him online—without full perspective on the importance of the hunt to his community's well-being.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- Chris was pretty much natural at hunting.
[gunshot] I started bringing him out when he had diapers and a bottle.
- It's the Yup'ik way to share the catch.
[Yelling] [Water splashing] [message sound] - They got the whale and [message sounds] controversy blew up.
- Adulthood is different in our culture.
- Chris is doing something his ancestors have done for thousands of years.
This feeds the community.
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