One With the Whale

Season 25 Episode 15

For Native Alaskans living on a tiny Bering Sea island, if you don’t hunt, you die.

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.