♪ ♪
(clattering)
♪ ♪
SUE: About to go to bed.
And, uh, there’s a couple of noises I don’t like going on.
Right out the door is a good-sized bear.
Seven to eight foot, brown in color.
Grab the rifle.
I want to get out, and I need you to kind of get out quickly.
♪ ♪
What I’m looking for are eyes.
Just looking where I saw ’em.
Kind of lets you know you’re alive, though.
Every noise is suspect.
Everything might charge you at 45 miles an hour.
You don’t know.
I’m not seeing any eyeballs,
but I’m not turning my back to it either.
I don’t want something this large feeling territorial.
I’ll keep my ears open, I’ll keep my eyes open,
and tomorrow I’ll do what I can to make it safer.
This bear is now a problem.
♪ ♪
While I have the sunshine, I need to gather that intel.
I need to get my eyes on the ground,
maybe throw a couple of game cams up.
But I want to bring the gun, I want to have it handy.
If something’s down below and it charges me,
I’m gonna have to think fast.
♪ ♪
I see one, two, three skins.
One head over there.
I got some bear poopy here.
You have some bones here, some more rib bones.
Look at how efficiently
but viciously it tore these bones.
(squealing)
(screeching)
Don’t you be mean to my little baby!
(screeching)
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah!
♪ ♪
(screeching)
These are different families,
and they’re all trying to survive.
And you can see how they’re battling.
They’ll get on their hind legs,
and they do this with their mouths.
And I can’t do much about it.
(screeching)
Nature is beautiful and brutal.
♪ ♪
This is now entering one of the most dangerous times,
the denning season.
When the bears are gonna go to sleep for months on end,
they’re gonna try to get fat.
And it’s a mantra in their head.
If I don’t eat, I’m gonna die.
Just like I think you got to watch your own six.
The most important thing I can do for myself
is use my daylight hours wisely,
which means I need to get the intel.
When my Spidey senses go off, I’ve got to listen.
So I’m gonna back up, get in the vehicle,
go back to camp.
Check it in the morning, keep my ears open.
I’m very interested to see what I’m gonna catch.
♪ ♪
I don’t want to be caught out here in the dark.
I’d rather catch a glimpse of what’s in the dark.
♪ ♪
AGNES: It’s always a good thing to have the kids around
’cause it’s fun to teach people things.
♪ ♪
(wind howling)
TINMIAQ: I brought my tote box
because I know it’s freezing out there.
Qutan, you could probably put these
on the bottom of those boys’ boots
because they’re, got to change out their insoles.
AGNES: Today we’re here in Kiwalik
at our, um, Kiwalik fish camp.
The girls and I decided to, um, get our sewing on.
Traditionally, this is the time of the year
when we start to pull out our furs
and start skin sewing.
NARRATOR: As the Hailstones prepare
for dark winter’s return,
Agnes and her daughters begin a traditional calling
this time of year.
They are unearthing a vast collection of hides and skins
from previous hunts,
and the harvests of years past
will be sewn into winter clothing
for the newest member of the family.
TINMIAQ: I learned pretty good from my parents how to sew
and how to scrape the skins
and what time of the year to go out and get the animals
and work on them throughout the year
to get it done at the right time.
Last time I was here, I was pregnant with Sabastian.
We went and got a bunch of beaver,
and now I could use this beaver
and I could sew it on the bottom of this rabbit parky.
This is rabbit skin, and it will rip real easy, eh?
So I’d have to put the beaver on the cuffs,
since I could take this one off and replace it.
CAROL: There’s this, too.
It’s otter skin, sea otter.
TINMIAQ: I also have to make some...those mittens.
Got some booties.
You want to help me sew on one of them?
QUTAN: I can sew on the mittens.
TINMIAQ: The mittens? Okay.
♪ ♪
AGNES: These are fall time bull caribous and usually, uh,
that’s what we make for mukluks for the feet.
And the hairs won’t break off or wear out as the kid play.
So it will pretty much go on the boot like that.
The fur from the caribou legs are best used for the mukluks.
The mukluk is the Inupiaq name for winter boot.
TINMIAQ: If you could get the mukluks done
and she gets, um, the mittens done
and I get this parky,
then we’ll just need some, a hat next, eh...
AGNES: Mm-hmm. TINMIAQ: ...to work on?
CAROL: I think Sabastian’s gonna look really cute
in that parky, yeah?
Whenever I go somewhere, like camping or somewhere,
I take yarn with me ’cause it’s just something to have.
And if I get bored or the lights turn off,
I could just crochet something,
and so we all have our own little things we like to do.
Ting likes fur, so she takes it with her.
My mom likes mukluks,
she can make those out of all the skins we have around us.
And they all turn into something after a while,
so everything’s being used, not being wasted.
It’s pretty nice.
AGNES: We all sit down together, make Sabastian clothes.
He’ll be ready for the winter.
His very first winter he can actually play and run.
TINMIAQ: Next he’ll need, um, a sled and he’ll need a dog.
AGNES: Yeah.
TINMIAQ: I have my son Sabastian out here.
He’s really enjoying it.
This is where I grew up, so I have a nice warm place for him.
I let him play out all day.
Sabastian can be nice and warm
and I won’t have to worry about my son freezing
when we’re outside.
(wind howling)
♪ ♪
(crunching)
JESSIE: You know, what some people would look at
as harsh conditions is the everyday around here.
♪ ♪
Rosie, look. There’s some nice blueberries here.
Yeah.
Last snacks.
Mm, those are super sweet.
They’re a little bit fermented from being on the bush so long.
This is the time of year that everything starts changing.
You know, all the leaves have fallen out.
Snow’s covered the ground.
Ice is starting to build up.
Winter’s coming.
Oh, I love standing up here and looking at the land.
It’s a sense of pride every time I walk up here
and I see what I’ve accomplished out here
in a short amount of time.
Walking around my property just inspires and invigorates me.
You know, it gives me an energy for the day.
And I’m gonna take that energy and put it to good use
and, uh, do what I should have did when I first moved here:
build a sauna.
I’ve always wanted a sauna.
And that’s something that I’m really looking forward to
is that creature comfort of being able to go in there,
sweat and clean my body
and rest and relax really good after that.
And now it’s time to get home and get to work.
I got all my materials all tarped off here,
all my building materials that I’m gonna need.
Under here is the floor that I started early in the spring.
Looks like I’m gonna need to put my floor in first,
and then I can start stacking my logs.
Maybe some people wouldn’t understand
why you would go and build a sauna.
But I don’t have a shower.
I don’t have a bathtub.
I don’t have any kind of pressurized water.
I want to be able to be clean.
You know, I’ve roughed it my whole life in Alaska.
If I want to work hard, come off the trail weathered,
beaten down and get in there
and take a nice sauna before I go to sleep,
you know, I can do that anytime I want once I get this built.
♪ ♪
It’s sort of cold and wet, but, you know,
it ain’t 30 below,
it’s time to make hay while the sun shines a little.
♪ ♪
Yup, first time that I moved out into the bush,
I had a good friend.
He said, I said, "I’m gonna be out there
running with those dogs, traveling, trapping."
He goes, "You’re gonna sit by the wood stove a lot."
And, man, just to spite him, I was outside that whole winter.
Ever since then, I just like to be outside in the winter.
Anytime it’s snowing and blowing, I’m going.
For me, in the weather’s harshness, there’s a beauty.
Makes me feel alive.
♪ ♪
All right, making progress.
Got the floor in.
Next step is, uh, to kind of start stacking these logs up.
Ought to be able to knock that out pretty quick.
♪ ♪
RICKO: After all these years living in Alaska,
the one word I’d use to describe my time out here is rich.
A rich life.
Rich with knowledge and rich with a beautiful environment.
♪ ♪
(child talking unintelligibly)
RICKO: Most of the times when I go in the woods,
I’m on a snow machine or a boat.
But I have the little babies with me today,
and I don’t want to get them too cold.
There’s a good chance for me to start teaching them
about how to move around in the woods.
And I haven’t really hiked around in the forest with them,
and that’s what I want to do today
is walk around in the woods and let them look around
and go on a little spruce chicken hunt.
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of the Alaskan interior,
Ricko DeWilde honors his family legacy
by passing down his ancestors’ culture
and way of life to his children.
Today he’s joined by his two youngest, Keenan and Maya,
as they hunt the Huslia wilderness for small game,
a key lesson in survival during the fall season.
RICKO: Okay, let’s keep an eye out.
They could be in the trees, too.
Walk slow ’cause when you hunt spruce chicken,
or if you move too fast,
they’ll know you’re there before you see them,
and they’ll take off.
So you got to walk slow.
♪ ♪
This is how you learn to live in the woods.
You start when you’re young and you go hiking.
RICKO: No, we’re not.
It just feels like that when you go in the woods, Maya.
MAYA: Mmm.
RICKO: Don’t be scared. I know where we’re at.
♪ ♪
MAYA: Cranberry!
RICKO: Oh, cranberries.
MAYA: Let’s pick them.
RICKO: Okay, we’ll pick some.
You got to keep one glove on.
KEENAN: Why?
RICKO: Eh, you can take them both off.
Your hands might get cold, so we got to do this kind of quick.
It’s a small world for me out here
because I been out here long enough.
But for my kids, this is a huge world.
And for them, they just go on little journey with me
like this, is everything.
If I don’t do this now, maybe later in life
I’m afraid they won’t go out with me
on larger expeditions in more dangerous areas.
And this is a beautiful moment for me as a dad,
taking my kids out.
Okay, let’s go look for spruce chicken.
We got enough berries.
Come. This way.
Maya just had to go get that berry.
Oh, look, look, look!
Spruce chicken.
KEENAN: Whoa.
RICKO: It’s right under the tree.
(gunshot)
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RICKO: Oh, I think I got it.
MAYA: Let’s go get it.
RICKO: Okay.
We got to look for it.
Oh, there’s another one right there.
Okay.
♪ ♪
(gunshot)
I’m trying to get my kids to see the spruce chicken
before I shoot them
because I want them to feel like they’re hunting, too.
And it allows them to watch everything
and learn to look for the animals they’re hunting
and come away with a better hunting experience
and a lot more learning.
♪ ♪
I’ve seen one fly right up here, Keenan.
But maybe he jumped down.
Oh, right there, right there, there, look!
♪ ♪
(gunshot)
Oh, got it!
Hit it right in the head.
You pick that one up.
Maya, there’s one behind you.
You got to pick that one up.
KEENAN: Oh, jeez, this is heavy.
MAYA: Okay, I will pick that one up.
RICKO: Pick it up by the leg.
KEENAN: Do we got another one?
RICKO: Yeah, we got to find it, though.
KEENAN: We’re lucky right there.
RICKO: Yeah, we’re lucky.
That’s right, Keenan.
♪ ♪
It’s real important to really cherish that food
that’s put on the table for you,
and, um, I like hearing Keenan say
it’s been a lucky, lucky day,
because I try to teach that to my kids.
If you don’t have luck, you won’t have nothing,
and if you do things right in life,
take care of the animals you catch,
you’re always gonna have luck.
♪ ♪
We got enough spruce chicken.
We don’t have to hunt no more, okay?
And we got cranberries, we got four spruce chicken.
Let’s make a fire and have ourselves a meal.
Like you said, Keenan, lucky day.
♪ ♪
CHIP: Oh, your family’s everything.
I’d give up all the money in the world for my family.
♪ ♪
Whew!
I need to finish the cabin.
Basically, I’m just gonna insulate
and then, uh, board up the inside of the cabin there
and finish that part of the whole project.
This was like my very first carpentry project ever. So...
Beyond making sleds--
I’m really good at that kind of stuff.
I can never say I’m a good carpenter.
That’s not bad.
I can do this in one, two, three sheets on each side.
That cabin, that was like half Carol’s idea,
simply because I had no idea.
And that’s really how it worked.
And two years ago, me, Carol, a hammer and a jigsaw.
And I still got the same jigsaw and hammer,
and the same Carol around.
♪ ♪
Put them in like this, except for I’m still gonna have
a four-inch strip I’m gonna have to cover.
Probably better to stack them like this.
Then I can just cut them all kind of custom.
Yeah, looks like two will fit in this one.
That’ll about work.
♪ ♪
Eh, look, it fits.
That’ll hold.
That’ll be really, really good.
Should make quite a bit of difference.
This’ll keep it warm this winter.
And being warm is important.
Not only do I conserve the heat,
but also the fact that I have to go out and get the wood.
And I have to chop it into smaller pieces myself.
It’s gonna be a lot of labor.
So I’m pretty happy with that.
♪ ♪
Like, you know in this kind of life,
you don’t always build stuff, you don’t always hunt,
you don’t always fish,
but do a little bit here and there,
here and there.
And I’d like to catch up and finish this little cabin.
♪ ♪
I’m trying my best. I’m not the best.
I’m not gonna be the best.
But I’m interested enough to figure it out,
get it done and done properly.
I’m gonna keep plugging along till lunch comes along.
I got lots to do here.
Pretty nice, though.
I’m happy when things are working out. (chuckles)
♪ ♪
SUE: You can’t be the lighthouse keeper
if you decide to leave when the waves get tall.
♪ ♪
Hole, hole, hole, hole.
This right here, nice-sized pad of a bear.
Here’s another partial.
Uh, maybe up there.
My Spidey senses just went off,
and, uh, this is a problem.
♪ ♪
All the hairs on my neck, back, everywhere, are up.
This is a place where a bear buries its kill.
It smells like death.
They only bury their kills where they’re gonna come back to.
That’s not a happy find.
My gut reaction is get the Bobcat,
disturb this, but only when I’m perfectly ready to declare war.
Because when you do that, he’s gonna throw a fit.
You’ll see somewhere, within the 360 vicinity,
some brush is gonna be blown up.
You’re gonna see something go "ahhhh!"
and give you a roar like you, make you uncomfortable.
(voice quavering) And I’ve heard it before,
and I don’t need to hear it again.
But I will.
’Cause this is my ground, (bleep).
And I could take time and really scour the area.
But I’d rather scour the footage,
grab my cards, go back, look at them.
I’m very interested to see what I’m gonna catch.
NARRATOR: An Arctic grizzly bear
is encroaching on Sue’s territory in Kavik.
After setting game cameras on the tundra,
she now must retrieve them in hopes of gathering intel
that could be the difference between life and death.
SUE: Let’s see what we have here.
Foxy is just kind of chewing on some stuff here.
He’s, uh, little foxy’s definitely taken off.
Okay.
♪ ♪
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SUE: It’s not a tiny bear.
Belly is sagging, but a little on the skinny side.
♪ ♪
It’s making a show of force,
saying I’m taking over this ground
and it’s mine and that’s the way that is
and this is a great find and it’s mine.
It’s a, it’s a little bit of an adolescent show.
♪ ♪
But that makes it a little dangerous.
♪ ♪
You know, a few years ago, I got attacked by a grizzly.
It was hiding and reached out and snatched me
and, uh, drug me up into the tundra,
just a few yards from the tent.
Hips were torn out of the socket,
you know, discs spit out,
and, uh, I ended up having to drag myself up
from halfway across the river.
And I just had to lay here,
and it took ten days for somebody to find me.
When you have a bear and he’s got his jaws on your throat
and you’re laying there and you’re just,
you don’t know if he’s gonna chew on you.
You don’t want it to happen twice.
♪ ♪
Something has to nullify it, and that something has to be me.
♪ ♪
JESSIE: I just don’t think about life if I had never left home,
because, you know, I always had a wandering spirit,
and that was for a reason
because I was supposed to find this place.
♪ ♪
Rosie.
What are you doing?
I’m stacking logs.
You do what you want, okay?
Weather’s getting pretty nice.
Perfect working weather for me
to be able to get these walls up.
NARRATOR: Jessie Holmes is using the brief fall season
to complete a key build for his grounds.
Without pressurized water in camp,
this new sauna will help him get clean and heal
from the backbreaking work of his lifestyle.
It will be a major step
towards Brushkana becoming the home Jessie dreamed of
since coming to Alaska over a decade ago.
♪ ♪
JESSIE: I’m gonna stack my logs
just like I have on all the cabins on the property.
They’re three-sided logs,
which means they’re surfaced on three square ends.
And they stack up pretty quick and easy.
It’s no more difficult, honestly, than stacking Legos.
They’re just heavier.
♪ ♪
(chainsaw buzzing)
This is the winter that I’m gonna be
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It’s unlike me to be so well prepared.
I tend to have so much going on and be so unestablished,
you know, out here, that as I’m establishing myself
and I’m starting to get organized,
I’m getting more productive.
♪ ♪
Now, things are becoming dreams for me
that I didn’t even know were dreams.
I’m dreaming of a farm now.
I’m dreaming just this homestead
that’s all tidy and well planned out
and I’m enjoying just digging deep into like, living...
you know, giving myself these things that I feel I deserve.
I’ve went long enough without.
♪ ♪
Okay, the next step is gonna be building the door.
I’ve never done this before, so I’m kind of winging it.
Can’t be much different than building a doghouse,
though, to be honest.
That’s what I tell myself.
It gets me into trouble sometimes.
♪ ♪
Gonna have to measure it out real good here.
I’m gonna go 36 inches with the door.
Seems a little big.
♪ ♪
60, what was my numbers?
65.
I need to write all this down.
I hate math.
65 7/8.
All the way around.
Okay, how wide do I make my door?
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JESSIE: What else do I need to know?
Okay.
All right, I think I got everything I need now.
I just left myself a lot of extra to work with,
made sure I have no screws in here
so once I build my door outside and get my frame built,
I can take the exact measurements off of that,
lay out my walls, do my final cut with my chainsaw.
I think I got all I need to know.
♪ ♪
I have these weird ways of doing mental math.
Usually I just buy a manufactured door, you know?
Leave that to somebody who specializes in it,
but, you know, I kind of want to put my heart and soul
into this little building.
And, uh, take my time and make it a little sanctuary.
And I think it’ll feel all the much more rewarding
sitting in there taking a nice steam
knowing that I built all this.
(saw whirring)
I enjoy to have my creativity with ever--each project.
You know, as long as I don’t think it’s wrong,
then it’s not wrong, as long as it serves a purpose.
So I just build things to my liking.
I think of things how I want them,
and then I get creative.
I feel like when I’m building, that’s my creative space,
and I don’t even know how to read a blueprint.
Pace of life is slowing down out here,
I can take the time and build it the way I want.
I’m working hard to get all this done
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and it’s gonna pay off this year.
I’ve got some big dreams, big goals, big aspirations.
All right.
Door fits in nice now,
just to kind of do a final, few little final shims.
And then I’ll attach the hinges
and looks like it’s gonna swing real nice.
♪ ♪
For the complications this summer’s had, you know,
accomplishing these things has been very rewarding
to use my mind when my body was weak.
It’s been hard work.
For all the freedoms that I do have,
there’s a lot of sacrifices that I make to have them,
but at the end of the day, you know, I’m living my life
the way I always wanted to.
Embracing that freedom.
That freedom ain’t free.
All right, that works great.
And that puts me ready to head on to the next stage
and get my benches built.
♪ ♪
RICKO: There’s a fine line
between brave and stupid out here.
♪ ♪
Just grab the feather and pull it.
We’re gonna start plucking them right away.
Because if you wait to pluck them, you rip the skin.
There you go, Keenan. You’re doing it.
KEENAN: Can we race?
RICKO: Okay, we’re racing.
Jeez, your first spruce chicken you’re plucking,
and you want to race.
By plucking these spruce chicken with my kids,
that’s part of the learning process
of respecting the animals, respecting the land
and working for the food you eat out here.
♪ ♪
You kids are good at this.
You’re real woods kids, huh?
It’s supposed to be lucky when you catch something like this.
Sometimes when you’re hunting for moose,
or you don’t have any moose
and you don’t have any fish at the time,
and a little animal like this,
the spruce chicken, is always around.
And that’s what can get you through those tough days.
Like God or whoever put us on this Earth,
they have animals like this,
and it gives itself to you so you could eat.
You’re older and you’re starting to learn, huh, Keenan?
About luck.
The kids really never got in there
and helped process an animal before,
so it’s fun seeing them pluck that spruce chicken with me
and learn to get their hands dirty
and learn to work for the meal they’re about to have.
KEENAN: What are we gonna do with the spruce chicken?
RICKO: Let’s go find a place to make a fire
and cook him up real quick. Okay?
KEENAN: Uh-huh.
RICKO: Good job.
Been a lucky day.
♪ ♪
CHIP: I’m really glad that my wife
has brought her culture to our kids
and they’re integrated in it.
♪ ♪
That’s my last fitted piece, here.
Here we go. Friction fit, all right?
Come check this out, grandson.
All that Styrofoam we got from dumps,
and sat outside the house and cleaned up, remember that stuff?
I’m putting it in here to make this place warmer.
Pretty cool, huh?
So I’m gonna grab a couple sheets of, of this stuff
and then I’m gonna have you go over to the, uh, teepee
and go hang out with your aunties and your Aana.
WADE KELLY: And Skyler.
CHIP: And Skyler, yup.
WADE KELLY: And Skyler might help you after, eh?
CHIP: We’ll see. Time to bring out the foam.
♪ ♪
So I’m gonna use a spray foam here,
and I’m gonna go fill in the little gaps and stuff
with all the other foam.
So, it’s gonna be foam on the foam.
Keep the draft down, keep it sealed up.
Then I can start putting in plywood.
♪ ♪
Okay.
So, I think it’s all clear.
I think it’s ready for plywood.
♪ ♪
Well, what the plywood is basically gonna do for me
is, um, finish this inside.
I need to finish this cabin.
It’ll be the end of the working on the roof right here.
I’ll get this first one in.
Here.
(groans)
Awkward piece of wood.
Flo, you’re here.
This pipe just burst on me.
Well, you bundled home and auto with Progressive,
so you have round-the-clock protection on all your stuff.
Like that cardboard TV.
I told props to switch that out.
Okay, everyone, that’s a wrap.
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I’m sorry, Jon, but I’m already in love with insurance.
You know that’s weird, right?
Well, any weirder than faking a burst pipe?
Got a little carried away.
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♪ ♪
CHIP: All I got to do
is basically get one or two nails in
and use them like a shelf to hold this in place
while I smack it in.
♪ ♪
There’s gonna be a method to this madness
that I’ll figure out when I’m already mad.
♪ ♪
Okay.
And I need my stick.
Okay.
I’m looking pretty happy right now, I tell you that.
I didn’t know it was gonna pan out this good.
I’m just gonna tack it in a couple places.
Yeah.
There, that will do.
Yeah, one down and four to go.
♪ ♪
TINMIAQ: Sabi!
SABASTIAN: Huh?
AGNES: Hi, Sabastian.
Oh, you go get wood?
He wants you, Ting.
SABASTIAN: Mommy.
TINMIAQ: Hi, son. You go...
SABASTIAN: I go chop wood.
TINMIAQ: You go chop wood?
AGNES: Oh, good boy!
Good job!
CAROL: Whoa, Sabi.
Uh-oh, your hat.
AGNES: Hey there, little fella.
TINMIAQ: You go and chop wood?
AGNES: You go chop wood?
TINMIAQ: Are you cold? AGNES: Good job.
QUTAN: I just finished his mittens.
TINMIAQ: Ooh, beautiful.
Look at those.
AGNES: Wow, they’re nice.
I make you like mine. Same pair, look.
TINMIAQ: Ooh.
CAROL: Same kind, like Aana?
Put them on, you can walk to Wade and Sky.
TINMIAQ: And I won’t have to worry about your feet freezing.
AGNES: They fit, grandson.
First time you put mukluks, grandson.
ALL: Whoa! Woo!
AGNES: Me being the youngest,
I’d sit with my sisters and my mom,
and we’d all help each other make projects
just like the way me and my girls are doing.
So, I did it with my mom,
and she did it with her mom, and so on.
Using all these skins that my parents used today
is, uh, it’s really awesome.
TINMIAQ: Mama made you a parka.
CAROL: Are you ready, Sabi?
AGNES: Put his hands in first.
TINMIAQ: Aah!
CAROL: There you are!
I see you. I see you.
It was, um, a good time hanging out with my sisters.
We don’t usually do projects like that,
but having my sisters all together in one little tent
is pretty nice.
Soon, we’ll be looking back at this and saying,
"Man, remember we were all sitting in that little tiny tent
making stuff for Sabastian when he was just so small?"
It’s good to have times like these,
especially when you’re growing up
and starting to move away from each other.
Yeah, it’s pretty good to hang out
and just have our own little time together.
♪ ♪
AGNES: You go to your Taata.
CHIP: Whoa.
You got skin pants and mukkies?
They go to your knees!
That’s the best, though,
’cause a little kid like him
are falling on their knees all the time.
TINMIAQ: You go show your Taata.
Whoa.
And Qutan got your mittens.
CAROL: Now we just have to sew him a rabbit hat.
Wow, Sabi.
AGNES: He just want to hold them.
CAROL: You sure you want to put them in?
You got mittens?
CHIP: Man, this kid will be 40 below and playing out.
QUTAN: Come on, baby. CHIP: Hey, blondie.
♪ ♪
AGNES: If I could use one word to describe my life in Alaska,
it would be "aarigaa."
Life is good.
I feel a lot of love for my children.
You know, goal is just keep building for the kids.
It’s very important that we learn our traditional values
that we have as Inupiaq people
and pass down to your children and grandchildren.
Respect your elders. Respect the land.
Humility, avoid conflict.
There are so many rules we live by
and to teach your children all those rules
and for them to pass them down to their family
and their children is very important.
It makes life in Alaska a lot easier.
♪ ♪
For most people that don’t live in Alaska,
this is a harsh, hard life.
But for me, an Inupiaq Eskimo, it ain’t harsh.
It ain’t uncomfortable.
It ain’t anything.
I’m an Eskimo.
I live for this (bleep).
JESSIE: I feel like I’ve spent the last 20 years
desiring a life I didn’t have.
And now I have this life that I desire.
♪ ♪
Wow.
That looks amazing.
This little building has character to it,
and that’s what I really like.
And now that inspires me,
looking at the outside of it,
you know, to get in there
and add character to the inside.
Get this thing hot and start sweating.
♪ ♪
I’m gonna build my bench.
It’s gonna be three feet out.
It’s gonna cover the whole width of the sauna.
Hopefully, get a tight fit, you know.
Well, I just got to get that done,
and then I can move the stove in and try it out.
♪ ♪
This is a symbol of never giving up,
through all the hardships and all the hard times
and all the hunger, cold nights under the stars.
50 below, and all those struggles, you know,
are all for a reason:
to bring me here and to enjoy all this around me.
I’ve been able to build Brushkana to my liking,
and, uh, now seeing the sauna,
it ties it together like I kind of envisioned it.
It’s been hard work,
but this really ties everything together around here
and all the work that I’ve done.
You know, it’s, uh, exciting to kind of cap off
all the things I wanted to build out here.
♪ ♪
It’s been a lot of work building this thing,
but I got it all ready for my first sweat.
I got my fire going.
I’m gonna let this, uh, get nice and hot here,
and heat up these rocks and my hot water.
I’m gonna go feed the dogs.
That way, after my first sweat,
I don’t have nothing to do but go and pass out and rest.
The best rest I’ll ever have in my life probably.
♪ ♪
SUE: We’re creatures of light and dark.
You’ve got to have the duality,
or you don’t get the whole picture.
♪ ♪
Tonight’s plan is for me to go out
to where the bone pile is,
staying all night in a vehicle in the cold, in the fog.
How do you catch a thief in the night?
You go in the night and you wait for him.
♪ ♪
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♪ ♪
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♪ ♪
SUE: It’s not the biggest.
It’s not the Moe Daddy.
But, uh, it’s a threat to me.
It’s not the size that matters.
It’s the resolution of the problem.
(voice quavering) I’m feeling really emotional.
♪ ♪
This is a bear.
This is a...
It is not...
a small thing.
♪ ♪
I wasn’t going for a trophy.
What I’m going for
is protecting the people that are here, myself included.
And, uh...
thank the Lord that it was...
♪ ♪
(voice trembling) I did it. I got the bear.
The bear didn’t get me.
And maybe it’s wrong to feel grateful for that, but I do.
♪ ♪
(sobbing)
Thank you, fella.
I’m sorry it ended like this, but I’m not sorry.
(sniffling)
Go, team Sue. I still got it.
(sniffling)
♪ ♪
JESSIE: Living and surviving anywhere in the world
is grueling work.
The only thing that’s gonna make it worth it
is the sense of satisfaction you feel at the end of the day
with what you chose to do.
♪ ♪
(dogs barking)
Good boy, Bronick.
(dogs barking)
Yeah, I got big plans for this team this winter.
This is one of the best dog teams I ever had.
I’m gonna be going hard out in the wilderness all winter,
and I just feel so good feeling so prepared.
And I’m so excited to get in that sauna.
This is something I’ve been waiting for
for a long time in my life.
And, you know, it’s, it’s here now.
I can see the smoke going right now.
♪ ♪
Oh, yeah.
Oh, that is nice.
This sauna just ties off
everything I’ve been doing around here
and just makes it more home for me and, you know,
it’s a, it’s a great feeling, you know,
that I get to enjoy it now.
So I’m gonna turn 40 this winter.
You know, it’s like, a guy ought to figure out
what he wants to do by then, and he ought to do it.
And that’s what I’m doing, so, you know,
I don’t think I could be asking
for anything better than what I got.
♪ ♪
Something that I’ve always wanted to have
is like a ritual out here.
It’s a ritual to help me, you know,
explore deeper into my mind and clear my mind
and, uh, be more productive and enjoy myself more.
This is gonna be a place
where it’s just about me and my health.
♪ ♪
This takes me back to a time my friend said,
"Oh, you’re gonna sit around the wood stove"
when I first moved out into the bush.
And I’ve been at it, working hard every day.
And he did that to fire me up,
but thing is, you don’t need to fire me up.
My fire is inside of me, and it’s burning hot
to get all these things done, you know.
I went through a lot this summer
and I didn’t give up on my dreams.
And now I, you know, not giving up on my dreams
is letting me live, you know,
the best winter I’ll have ever lived in my life.
♪ ♪
RICKO: We like to teach our children
and pass on this torch of survival.
That’s part of our culture.
♪ ♪
(wind whistling)
Okay, you throw it on.
Good job.
Okay, we’re ready to cook this now.
Right there.
(sizzling)
Mm, that smells good.
♪ ♪
Here, you want to try some spruce chicken?
MAYA: I want to try some spruce chicken.
RICKO: Okay, here.
How is it?
MAYA: Good.
KEENAN: Mm-hmm.
This is real yummy.
RICKO: Oh, look, a wishbone.
KEENAN: Can I wish for it?
RICKO: You guys got to break it apart,
and whoever gets the biggest piece,
their wish comes true.
Okay, make a wish first.
KEENAN: Okay.
RICKO: Okay, you grab this side.
MAYA: I want a horsey.
RICKO: A horsey? Now, you grab this side.
You grab it and you go...
Oh, Keenan won.
KEENAN: Yeah.
That, that means I have to.
RICKO: Yeah, what’d you wish for?
KEENAN: I wished for a dinosaur.
♪ ♪
RICKO: You guys want to follow me around
some more in the woods?
KEENAN: Yeah. RICKO: On different adventures?
KEENAN: Mm-hmm.
RICKO: This is just one little adventure.
Spruce chicken and cranberry.
MAYA: I like adventures.
RICKO: I love adventures with you kids.
Maybe one day, you kids will be shooting at the birds.
♪ ♪
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