Alberta Thompson speaks against her tribe's whale hunt.
Alberta Thompson watched the water as her boat motored slowly through a lagoon. Suddenly a baby gray whale surfaced nearby. As it swam up alongside the 79-year-old grandmother, she stretched out her hand and stroked the youngster. Then another whale appeared. It was the mother. As Thompson spoke to the whales, the cow sprinkled her with a mist of sea water.
Thompson had made her first whale encounter. An elder of the ...