Caribou hunters' traditional practice violated state law, judge rules

After three days in court, a year under charges and a year and half living in a village shadowed by a statewide scandal, Aqquilluk Hank, Chester Koonuk and Roy Miller were found guilty of failure to salvage in the conclusion of the Point Hope caribou trial Thursday.

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