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An aerial view of the northwest Alaska village of Point Hope, on the Chukchi Sea, on May 13, 2023. A fatal shooting at a home in a remote Inupiat whaling village on Alaska’s northwest coast on Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024, shook the small community in Point Hope. (Marc Lester/Anchorage Daily News via AP)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.
Originally published at The Associated Press