さあ！諸君！捕鯨問題だ！

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When the whales travel, they know about Saint Lawrence Island, so when they
reach there, one of them stops, like they are camping, allowing themselves to be
killed. Some of them keep travelling, and when they reach point Hope, one of them
camp at Point Hope, caught by one of the whalers. As they keep on travelling,
when they reach Barrow, one of them camp, caught by the whalers.
When the whale is caught, just the body dies; the whole whale gives itself to all
the people . . . the whale being or spirit never dies. The whale that was like camping
at Point Hope knows when the whales retum [as they begin migrating south again].
And the whales that are going back know the whale had stopped to camp. When
the whales get to the camp, the dead whale's being or spirit return to the live whales.
The returning whales begin to listen to the whale that had been like camping. He
tells them that his hosts were good, the married couple were good to it. Some of
the whales tell the returning whales that their hosts did not treat them right.
The whale that had good hosts starts wishing and telling others that it will camp
again the following year. The other whale who did not have good hosts says that
it will not camp again, but will go to a different whaling crew the following year.
When you hunt the animals in harmony, you don't have problems catching the
animals. That is what needs to be thought about. If the hunters from Barter to
Saint Lawrence Island hunt in harmony, the animals will keep going. They will
catch the animal. （4）
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注（３）（４）ともに、Patrick Attungana, Address to the ALASKA ESKIMO WHALING
COMMISSION, in 'Uiniq: The Open Land, trans. James Nageak. April 1(2): 16, 1986.

"ENDANGERED PEOPLES of the Arctic" ed. M.M.R. Freeman pp.133-137