Indian tribe may prosecute illegal whale hunting
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Five Washington state American Indian hunters may face prosecution from their tribe after shooting and killing a gray whale in the midst of a charged legal dispute over tribal whaling.
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The Bolivian government on Thursday began legal proceedings to seize the vast landholdings of a prominent opposition leader, saying the property was fraudulently obtained and should be given to a local Indian tribe.
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By ERIN CONROY BOSTON - A 50-ton bowhead whale caught off the Alaskan coast last month had a weapon fragment embedded in its neck that showed it survived a similar hunt - more than a century ago.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - A Vancouver man wanted by the U.S. for the 30-year-old murder of an American Indian Movement activist is being persecuted based on a faulty FBI investigation and the word of a troubled drug addict, says the lawyer defending his so-called partner in crime.
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ELEANOR HALL: An international conservation group is today launching an unprecedented legal action, alleging that a Japanese whaling company has been killing protected whales inside Australia&#39;s Whale Sanctuary.
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Chai Vang of St. Paul, Minn., went hunting this week in Wisconsin, and ended up killing six people. The man reportedly was found occupying a deer stand on private property.
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Hiroshi Kobayashi has been hunting whales for three years now. He knows just where to look, and boasts that, in season, he has a close-to-perfect record of finding them. But he's never killed one &#151; he captains a whale-watching boat for tourists. And he thinks whaling is, or should be, a thing of the past.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - The International Whaling Commission renewed a five-year whaling quota for indigenous people in the United States and Russia on Tuesday, allowing Alaska Natives to continue hunting bowhead whales for subsistence purposes.
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In this neck of northern Minnesota, some Indians complain of being stopped for DWI &#151; meaning "Driving While Indian" &#151; a sly way of saying they were pulled over for no good reason.
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Alaska's wolf-killing program to boost moose and caribou numbers is facing a new legal challenge.
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Five American Indian tribes will regulate hunting, fishing and plant gathering by their members on millions of acres in Michigan under a tentative agreement announced Wednesday with the state.
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An international animal welfare group vowed to pursue a lawsuit accusing Japanese whalers of killing hundreds of whales within an Australian sanctuary despite Canberra's own reluctance.
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White settlers are using the judicial system to try to evict Indians from parts of a reservation in the Amazon.
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A Brazilian Indian tribe is linking up with Google Earth to try to capture vivid images that could help stop loggers and miners from deforesting the jungle and digging for gold on its vast Amazon reservation.
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By Deborah Bulkeley Deseret Morning News  In an effort to curb increasing unauthorized visitation to tribal lands, the Confederated Tribe of the Goshute Reservation has passed a law against trespassing.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - A five-year whaling quota for indigenous people in the United States and Russia was renewed by an international whaling body on Tuesday, allowing Native Alaskans to keep hunting bowhead whales for subsistence purposes.
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India's Jammu and Kashmir state plans to fight a global ban on the trade in super-fine shahtoosh wool, which environmentalists say is produced by killing a rare Tibetan antelope.