Man who hunted “Eskimos” charged

IQALUIT — An Alaska man charged with shooting Inuit and Indians with paint balls has pleaded guilty.

Charles Wiseman, 20, was charged with three counts of fourth-degree assault following a January shooting spree in Anchorage in which he, his brother and another youth videotaped themselves “hunting” for “drunk Eskimos.”

Wiseman and the two boys, who were 17 at the time, spent the evening driving their Subaru around the city, firing a paint-ball gun at seven people they called “muktuks.”

When a copy of the tape fell into the hands of police it attracted international media attention, prompted Alaska Inuit leaders to call for tourists to boycott the state, and led Alaska’s governor to appoint a cabinet-level panel on racism.

Wiseman will be sentenced Aug. 31.