Unalaska, AK – For centuries, the lives of the mostly Native residents of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea have been shaped by outsiders. In the 19th Century, it was Russian fur traders and the American government. In the late 20th Century, it was animal rights activists who fought to end the seal harvest there. The most recent visitor is the international environmental organization Greenpeace, which is trying to rally support on the Pribilofs for sweeping conservation measures in the Bering Sea. But to do that, the group has to overcome its own complicated history on the islands. KIAL's Charles Homans recently visited the Pribilof Island of St. Paul with Greenpeace and filed this report.

(Note: This is a corrected version of this story, which first aired on APRN's "AK" program on October 27. The original version incorrectly stated that the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior ran aground on St. Paul; it was actually one of the ship's small boats.)