The document discusses indigenous whaling and compares it to commercial whaling. It notes that the International Whaling Commission (IWC) allows indigenous groups in certain countries quotas to whale for cultural or religious reasons, with groups in the US and Canada allowed to hunt around 1,000 whales per year. Meanwhile, Japan hunts around 950 whales annually under the guise of "scientific whaling," and other countries conduct smaller commercial hunts. Both indigenous groups and commercial whalers argue over cultural traditions and population management, but whaling has reduced some whale species to fractions of their original sizes. There are reasonable arguments on both sides but no simple conclusions.