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Harry Brower Sr.

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Harry Brower, Sr. (1924–1992) or Kupaaq was an Iñupiaq whaling captain and community leader from Utqiagvik, Alaska.[1]

Harry Brower was the youngest son of whaling captain Charles D. Brower and Asianggataq Brower (Aluiqsi).[2] Brower worked for 27 years at the Naval Arctic Research Laboratory as a carpenter and field researcher alongside Max C. Brewer, John F. Schindler, Kenneth Utuayuk Toovak, and Thomas F. Albert.[3]

His son, Harry K. Brower, Jr. has been mayor of Utqiagvik since 2016.[4] As of 2001 he was Subsistence Research Coordinator with the North Slope Borough’s Department of Wildlife Management.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Wohlforth, Charles (2001). "The Iñupiaq Supercomputer: What The Whale Hunters Know & Some Scientists Want To Discover". Retrieved April 13, 2019.
  2. ^ Albert, Thomas F., "The Influence of Harry Brower, Sr., an Iñupiaq Eskimo Hunter, on the Bowhead Whale Research Program Conducted at the UIC-NARL Facility by the North Slope Borough In 1968," Fifty More Years Below Zero: 265-278, Arctic Institute of North America, 2000
  3. ^ Brewster, Karen. "Native Contributions to Arctic Science at Barrow, Alaska," ARCTIC, VOL. 50, NO. 3 (SEPTEMBER 1997) P. 277–288
  4. ^ Wohlforth, Charles. "We Did Solve Problems Before Oil," The Arctic Sounder, August 31st, 2018

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