“Inuit whale hunters lived apart from the rest of the group. Went out in canoes. Little bitty canoes. And these weren’t unfair fights, they didn’t have whale cannons like people came up with later. You fought for that whale. You died for it. Every whale you killed, you got a tattoo. That’s how important it was. So important that if you died, they mummified you and brought you on the next hunt anyway.”
