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RICKO DEWILDE: Seeing a lot of caribou
all of a sudden.
The big herd out here, a little bunch down here.
They’re a long ways off
and, uh, hopefully, get a close enough shot
to make one happen.
I wish I had a scope, but I don’t have a scope.
I have iron sights on my rifle.
Around Huslia, we have deep woods,
we have grizzly bears, we got moose,
and sometimes we have dangerous encounters
with these big animals.
I use iron sights ’cause I can rise up,
get a bead and shoot real quick.
I can’t do that with a scope,
but it hinders me when I’m out here looking for caribou
because caribou’s at a longer distance,
and a scope is much more of an advantage.
There they are. Right there.
I got to get my different glasses on.
That’s a long ways.
(gunshot)
Oh!
He’s still standing. He’s still...
Oh yeah, he went down. He went down.
Okay, let me get up to him.
(engine starts)
Oh.
That was a long shot. Proud of myself.
(chuckles)
Anaa Basee Dennahuto.
Heck yeah, some fresh caribou meat.
I’m going to get to skin him, butcher him,
tie it down in my toboggan, and keep on traveling.
Maybe I’ll get another one along the way.
SUE AIKENS: If you start dwelling on lonely,
it dictates, oh, there’s something lacking in my life.
There’s not a damn thing lacking in my life,
so I live alone, but I’m not lonely.
Alright, let’s see what I got going for myself.
I don’t want to sink in super deep,
but I know I’m going to.
Boy, that’s really a slurchy, messy area.
Let’s see what I can do. Whoa.
Sue, why did you make such a big mess?
Well, busted a bunch so that it could flow.
And what I need to get...
...move some of the BS away...
...and get clean water.
Some people call it a honey-do list.
I don’t have a honey. So, I have a honey-Sue list.
But one of the things on my honey-Sue list
is to go get water.
I cannot have running water right now.
The way that the lease is, the way that the camp is,
I cannot put a well in,
have full year-round running water.
So, I collect it in the winter.
So, I have to go find a spot in the river
that I can get fresh, running water.
Hard to do sometimes.
Everything else is saying nope, winter is not done,
but the process has begun for the water.
I kind of feel like I’ve got
to get some of these chores done
because you just don’t know.
You don’t know what Mother Nature’s gonna throw at you,
but I’ve got that heebie-jeebie feeling
I need to get it now.
Kind of like the last hurrah for winter
before spring sets in.
I am getting cold,
but, uh, and you can
my pants all the way up to here are frozen.
But heck, I’ve got,
what, 35 good gallons of water.
That’s worth it.
When you’re at the, the top of Alaska,
it’s really hard to see the difference
between the end of winter
and the beginning of spring, actually.
But I want to make use of the winter
before spring arrives.
Boy, this still is actually fairly healthy ice.
For as much steam as I see down this way,
this a healthy amount of, uh...
...solid ice.
What am I seeing over there?
Oh. Oh.
I see a handful what looks like geese
just right up over here.
Uh, the only problem for me is I didn’t bring a goose gun.
Shoot. I mean, they’re just laying here.
They’re just, like, there.
Well, I’m here for every opportunity.
I’m not that far from camp.
So, what I think I’m gonna do is turn around.
I got two new goose guns.
Um, maybe I’ll just grab those and some shells.
And if they move, that’s a bummer,
but they’re in the area.
I’ve just opened up another door of possibilities.
Subsistence. That’s what it’s all about.
(engine rumbling)
CHIP HAILSTONE: If you want to be a good hunter,
you have to have, number one, skills, and number two,
you have to have persistence and patience.
You wait long enough and you do your diligence...
-(gunshot) -...it’s all gonna be good.
CHIP: Give me a kiss.
AGNES HAILSTONE: Well, be safe no matter what you do.
-CHIP: You too. -AGNES: I’ll be here waiting for you.
CHIP: Right on.
(engine revving)
Today is a wonderful day.
spring has done sprung, you don’t know what you’ll see.
Bears could be waking up,
caribou migrating by, birds showing up.
It’s kind of warm. The snow’s still here.
We don’t have very long of that.
The excellent riding will be over pretty soon.
All this snow out here, it’s gonna become water.
It’s gonna flow down.
But not today.
Oh yeah. Bear tracks from a couple days ago.
It’s filled in with snow but a couple days ago,
he was heading that way.
Just goes to show they’re out.
They can do 20, 30 miles a day.
They’ll do loops. They’ll do all kinds of things.
I have no idea where this guy went,
but that’s exactly what we’re up to.
So, we know there’s bears around.
So, the trick is to keep going higher and higher,
and we’ll get up here to Monument.
We’ll get up and have a look around
till we’ve cut some fresh tracks.
When we see some fresh tracks, we’ll just follow ’em
till we find the bear that makes them.
That’s the plan.
Like any good predator, you get up on the high
and you look to the low.
And then you got the advantage in everything.
We have a mountain called Monument
that’s got some really tall outcroppings,
and I like to go up there
’cause there’s six different ways
that you can look up there,
and you can save a lot of gas
by just driving around and spotting.
And, uh, it usually works.
There is a lot of ground to look at here.
Not many places to hide, but, um, they’re out there.
These are their haunts.
Whoa.
Now there’s some prints.
Oh.
They’re coming up, but I didn’t see
where they came up.
Well, I’m gonna take a little ride down to those prints,
see what those tracks are.
(engine revving)
Pretty big wolverine prints.
It was worth looking at. Dang.
Wolverine for sure, the way it sweeps its feet.
Fairly fresh.
We must have scared it off the hill.
Then it ran that way.
Well, on to the next place.
Keep looking.
(engine starts)
Seek and ye shall find!
(engine revving)
ANDY BASSICH: You know, the only way to get good at anything
is to make mistakes
and to get out there and just do it.
DENISE BECKER: Zorro, uh-uh.
Zorro, sit.
Easy, easy. Shh.
Okay, Zorro.
Let’s see, the biggest challenge
is gonna be putting all that energy
to forward momentum,
but you got to learn to calm down too.
Good boy.
Today we’re gonna get the dogs out on the trail
and really start working with our youngest dogs.
It’s important to always have multiple lead dogs.
Some of our best lead dogs are getting older,
so we’re bringing up some new ones.
And the training has to start when they’re young,
and now is the time.
(dogs barking, howling)
ANDY: Okay, let’s go!
ANDY: Hup-hup.
NARRATOR: Andy Bassich and Denise Becker
rely on their kennel of sled dogs
to haul resources year round,
making these working pets a key aspect of their survival.
Having a reliable lead dog is crucial,
and today they must seize
the last days of winter on the Yukon
to train their younger dogs
and identify a new leader.
ANDY: Yeehaw! Come on, boys!
Zorro is probably one of the smarter dogs I’ve ever owned,
and he’s showing a lot of potential for wanting to lead.
So, I want to really start working with him
and get that foundation for being a leader.
I’m gonna take the A team with Zorro in lead.
Denise will be in the B team
and her team will be chasing my team,
and that’s an ideal place to put a young lead dog
because they don’t have to take commands.
All they got to do is stay on the trail
and try and catch up to the team in front of ’em.
DENISE: Good boys! Good boys.
You guys are doing a good job.
Being in the chase team means you’re chasing.
Your team just wants to be up front.
Your team just wants to get to the next team.
So, there’s a lot more trying to hold them back.
Wow, this is hard to steer.
Those dogs are powerful,
they’re excited, and they are going.
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Ohh!
Oh. Oh, good job.
Woo!
Got to catch up to Andy,
tell him something’s wrong with the sled.
ANDY: Everybody, whoa. Heel.
Good boys.
Everybody stay.
DENISE: Whoa. Everybody, whoa.
ANDY (off screen): Hey. What’s going on?
DENISE: Ohhh, everything!
This sled! Something is really wrong with it.
ANDY: Alright. Put your snow hook in.
Let’s take a look at it. See what’s going on.
DENISE: I had a bit of a wipeout.
ANDY: Oh, that’s it right there.
DENISE: Oh.
ANDY: All that plastic’s broken.
We’re gonna have to fix that.
And if you’re having a hard time,
it’s obviously doing something that we’re not aware of.
See, it’s broken way up here too.
Irregardless, I think we ought to just get this fixed,
’cause this, these are the sleds we want to train with.
DENISE: How is that to fix?
That looks like a...
ANDY: Ah, it shouldn’t be too bad.
-DENISE: Okay. -ANDY: So, let’s, let’s just,
let’s go through and abort this...
-DENISE: Yeah. -ANDY: ...right now.
Um, it’s kind of too bad
’cause Zorro’s doing super good.
-DENISE: Is he? -ANDY: Mm-hmm.
DENISE: Okay.
ANDY: I’ll get my guys turned around.
Basically, it’s an abort-the-trip type of a thing.
Head back home, bring the sled up into the shop,
and then just start ripping into it.
You guys ready to turn around? We got, we got to abort this.
You’re doing a good job, Zorro.
You’re doing a good job too, Griz,
but we got to go home and fix the sled
so we can go on a long run tomorrow.
Right, let’s come off.
We want to go tomorrow
on a nice long run with the dogs
and really put some miles on the puppies and,
and get them into a rhythm.
Hup-hup-hup!
That-a boys.
That-a boy, good boy, Zorro!
Good boy, Griz!
SUE: I don’t live
by how everybody else categorizes
what should be happening.
Life is that thing that is just pregnant with surprises.
Learn how to enjoy them.
You know, I was going to get water,
saw these geese, and didn’t have
a gun on me, of course.
Uh, so I went, came back, got the guns.
I’ll check things out, see if I see any other sign.
I am hearing those geese.
And I’ve been hearing the honk, honk, honk
back, forth, this way.
And what I think they’re doing is they’re,
for the ones that decided to come up on the early side
’cause of the false spring,
um, now they’re stuck.
I’m glassing...
...all the little haunts that are usually
and typically their lakes.
Seeing if they’ve landed,
seeing if they’re looking around, going,
but it should be here.
But it’s, it’s almost never this time of year
that I have a couple of handfuls of geese
flying around aimlessly.
So, we’ll just see.
But I want to get on the road, maybe get some geese.
Right now, it’s still winter,
but it’s spring but it’s winter.
I have a little bit of a warm-up going on.
I called it a false spring.
One of the signs of spring, the geese coming in,
the ducks coming in, the swans.
And they come when there’s water on the ground.
Occasionally, they get it wrong.
They may be weak. They may be slow.
They maybe don’t think too well.
Exactly the kind of geese I need to try and get.
Saw this and it’s...
...goose-splat,
but it’s going this direction...
...and, uh, just as the geese are learning,
holy cow, I came a little too early.
For me, it’s holy cow, yeah, you did.
Now I don’t know where to go find you.
I’m checking all the places
that normally have a little water.
So, maybe I’ll get in,
and I’ll kind of vary that direction and see.
Gonna go towards the east a little bit,
direction of the poopie,
and, and see what happens.
It doesn’t, doesn’t get dark much anymore,
so it’s not like I’m limited by,
"Oh, I got to be in by nine o’clock,
or I turn into a pumpkin."
(gasps) There’s a goose.
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SUE: Right in front of me.
Pretty sure that’s a goose.
(bleep) there’s a lot. They’re still a ways off.
(bleep) I’m gonna miss them.
(mimicking goose call)
(bleep)
I just was too slow.
Huh. Alright.
I’ll move on a little bit.
Paused just an extra minute to get the twelve-gauge.
That extra minute cost me, off they flew.
Where they were was not logical.
There’s no water, but that’s a good spot when there is.
So maybe I can come up with some things I can do
or make or try that gives me a vantage point.
What I want to do,
I want to expand my goose-hunting techniques,
and having decoys is a big thing.
So, I don’t have a lot of supplies here.
I certainly don’t have a store to go to,
but I grabbed some things
and I’ll see if I can’t make something.
I’m always looking. Re-purpose, re-use.
What do I have that I’m currently not using,
not likely to use?
Okay, white body.
Windsock technology.
This might work.
I have not made a decoy before,
but I am not afraid to learn.
That’s one of the things I love the most in life.
I loved school as a kid, I still like it.
Alright. There’s the last little goose beak.
Never made a decoy in my life,
but I think they turned out pretty stinking good.
Alright.
It’s time to go see if I can’t get a goose.
CHIP: This is the things I do.
I go out here, I hunt,
and I fish and I gather.
And I got my eyes open all the time.
Something up here.
It’s big.
He’s a moose.
It looked like a bear for a second.
I saw its head turn...
...but not a bear.
Oh, I hunt moose and stuff, but they’re out of season.
So, game off.
That had me excited for a second there.
I was kind of hoping to catch a bear fresh out of the den.
But, um, I’m not cutting any tracks.
I haven’t seen any bears.
They’re just not awake yet.
Not much I can do about that.
Personally, it’s important to come back with something
because I don’t want to waste my gas, my time, and my day.
There’s all kinds of options out there.
You don’t need to go home with nothing.
There’s everything out there if you know what it is,
if you can make use of it.
The last of the few rides I’ve gone on, I’ve seen a lot of ptarmigan.
They’re all over here.
So, I’m also just taking advantage
of the season, and it’s ptarmigan season.
Hunt some ptarmigan.
I dropped my sled.
Let’s go back and get it here in a minute.
Easier to get ptarmigan.
(gunshot)
I heard a little pap.
Ptarmigan down.
Grizzly bears might not be awake,
but the ptarmigan are. (chuckles)
Let’s go get some more birds.
(engine revving)
Winter’s coming to an end. It’s becoming spring.
We got migratory animals migrating in,
and migratory animals migrating out.
(gunshot)
The hunting never ends.
And what changes is the different animals
and the different seasons.
(gunshot)
I just picked up two more ptarmigan.
They’re really active.
Part of hunting is doing what you can.
Maybe I should continue down this hill
a little bit more and get some ptarmigan
before I go back up and get my sled.
Could be productive.
RICKO: Don’t come out here and think it’s just a picnic.
You got to know what you’re doing.
If you don’t know what you’re doing,
follow someone that knows what they’re doing,
’cause that’s the way you cross these lands.
Now I got meat in my toboggan.
I know I got meat to bring home.
I’m not skunked. And that’s a good feeling.
Plus, I can keep looking around for more.
Part of our culture is traveling
into these far-off lands
in the northwest of Huslia in the mountains,
and Selawik Valley
and coming back with caribou meat.
That’s part of our culture.
We talk to each other, all of us in the community.
We’re all trying to figure out where the animals are at,
so we all talk to each other
and we depend on each other with this information
to know exactly where to go to find these herds.
The Natives, we have to be good at everything out here
to be at our peak survival level,
and that’s what it takes to be a survivalist out here.
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whether you’re hunting right around the area
or venturing out on 100-mile rides.
That’s how our people survived.
They were nomadic. and they knew where to go
and when to go to go bring home food.
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Hopefully, we have some out here
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I’m just gonna kind of lay low, creep over the edge,
and see if I see any.
You want to try for that lead one out there.
If he’ll stop.
(whistles)
(continues whistling)
(whispering) There we go.
(gunshot)
Oh, I got him.
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Oh, I got him.
Woo, that was a good shot.
Yeah! Awesome!
Got another caribou.
I got enough now. I’m gonna go home.
I must’ve raised about that far over him
with the iron sights.
Lucky shot.
Always a blessed day when you have a lucky shot.
When you think of interior Alaska Athabaskans,
you might think of just moose meat, bear meat,
beaver meat, all that other good stuff.
But there’s caribou.
And caribou is real important meat to our people
because we’re able to put some of that away
to bring us through the summer months.
So we have red meat in our freezers
and we also have dry meat from our smokehouses
that we do in the springtime here with the caribou meat.
Okay, I’m getting hot.
All loaded, couple of good caribou.
Start heading back towards my country.
’Cause I’m a long way from home.
I’m in Eskimo country here.
And a long time ago,
our people, the Athabaskans, used to war
with these people, sad to say.
But nowadays, we can’t fight over land
that’s been stolen from us, so we’re all at peace now.
And I can come all the way over here
a hundred-and-some miles
and hunt caribou and get my spring food
and get some fresh spring meat
and go back over to my country.
ANDY: From the work we do every day around here
to also the recreation,
I want to see something come back from that.
I want to see a payoff.
Let’s go! Hup-hup!
That-a boys.
Good boy, Hulk. Good boy, Griz.
DENISE: Atta boy, Zorro.
Good job!
The sled is fixed, the dogs are stoked,
and we’re on the trail, heading to the Tatonduk.
It’s a scenic area.
It’s a wildlife corridor.
So I’m gonna be keeping my eyes open.
Um, maybe we’ll come across something.
I’ve got Zorro as a solo lead now in the B team,
in the chase team, so it’s a big test.
Yeah, good job, Zorro.
You can’t just turn on a lead dog switch.
It has to start when they’re young,
it has to start when they’re pups
and be a graduation into it.
ANDY: Hup-hup-hup.
Let’s go! Come on!
Hup-hup-hup!
That-a boys. Let’s go.
Yeah!
Up we go. Good boy, Griz.
DENISE: Good boy! That’s it! That’s it!
Woo-hoo! Good job, Amos.
You really get more insight to each dog
when you’re out on the trail.
Certain traits come out that you don’t see in the yard.
You don’t, you just, they don’t have
the chance to show it to you.
But it’s just learning.
It’s like learning a person,
and we’re all learning one another.
That-a boy.
That-a boy, Zorro.
ANDY: Good boys. Wow, look at that, Griz.
Little haw. Little haw.
DENISE: Oh, it’s so beautiful.
ANDY: We spend a lot of time on a really beautiful part
of the Yukon, near Calico Bluff.
But there’s a whole lot of country all around us
that’s equally as pretty and very unique.
The beautiful thing about this river
is when you get up into the gorge,
you never know what you’re gonna see
and it really can be quite spectacular.
Let’s take a break here, you guys.
-DENISE: Oh. -ANDY: Good boys.
DENISE: Look at that.
Oh, that’s incredible, Andy.
ANDY: That’s a big one.
DENISE: It’s just getting better by the minute.
Wow, this is pretty cool.
ANDY: That’s about the end, I think, huh?
DENISE: Wow! Never the end.
ANDY: Denise is an explorer.
That’s her core thing.
Once she’s out there, that’s her world.
It’s just who she is and,
and so it’s nice to be able to see her
really come to life and,
and, um, see that excitement in her.
DENISE: Well, look at our, uh, transportation home.
ANDY: Yeah, our transportation looks like
it, it needs a refill.
There’s no charging station out here.
DENISE: No, there isn’t.
ANDY: Actually, that’s exactly what you want them to do.
-DENISE: Yeah. Yep. -ANDY: You want them to just lay down and rest
and then when they pop up, they’re ready to go again.
Well, this is a pretty spot.
DENISE: It is so gorgeous in here,
I just want to suck it all up.
CHIP: Always have something that you can turn to
-as an alternative... -(gunshot)
...because hunting doesn’t always work out.
You have a backup plan always.
♪ ♪
AGNES: Yee, yee, yee!
You’re back!
CHIP: I was thinking to cross right here.
AGNES: Lots of water.
CHIP: I see that. But it’s overflow.
AGNES: This time of the year, the tundra starts
to get exposed to the nice warm heat of the sun
and starts to melt.
And all that melted snow and ice
is heading down towards our rivers.
The river’s collecting all the overflow.
When Chip took off this morning, he went across the river,
and the overflow
was just coming down and around the bend.
And while he was gone,
the river filled up deeper and deeper.
He’s gonna probably look and check it out
and decide if he can cross or not.
CHIP: That is very slick right there.
This would be the first place I’d have trouble,
but that’s okay if I got speed.
We’ll see. I should be fine.
I’m gonna cross right here.
AGNES: Okay, I’ll be watching.
CHIP: Alright.
Make some popcorn.
AGNES: If Chip takes his speed
and gets to this side,
he should make it.
But, uh, sometimes you’ll hit, uh,
ice under the water that you won’t be able to see,
and it’ll cause you to do a really big fly
and you can lose control and hurt yourself.
Huh.
Oh dear, he’s gonna go across, even with his sled.
I can’t tell from here if he’s loaded or not.
(sled clangs)
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People love it.
You’re not pulling it out of a box, you’re making food!
Yeah. I like being able to pride in my food
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and you see me making your chicken.
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AGNES: Oh!
Oh.
Oh yay!
Yee-hee! Hee-hee!
Wow, you made it, I’m glad.
CHIP: Well, yeah, I usually get through this alive.
(Agnes laughs)
CHIP: Spring has sprung.
We’re not gonna be walking on water very long.
No, we’re gonna have to leave that to our boat.
-I got some ptarmigan. -AGNES: Oh yay.
CHIP: The bears aren’t awake yet.
There’ll be plenty of bears coming out soon though, any day.
AGNES: Should we pluck these and have them for dinner?
CHIP: Ptarmigan’s fresh.
I was kind of hoping bears would be out.
It’s kind of a disappointment, but it’s just how it is.
The disappointment doesn’t last long though.
Four ptarmigans is enough for two people for dinner.
Yeah, it isn’t that I couldn’t hunt a bear,
there were just no bears out to hunt.
They were all under the snow.
AGNES: Thank you.
So that’s why I’m glad you got ptarmigan.
CHIP: Me too. They’re just everywhere.
AGNES: Soon, not only ptarmigan will be here, eh?
There’ll be geese and swans and ducks.
CHIP: Yep, spring has sprung.
AGNES: Chip brought home four ptarmigan,
and every hunt is different.
So it doesn’t matter if my husband
comes home with a bear, if he doesn’t.
At least he’s trying, and he’s out there riding
and checking out the country.
But the ptarmigan’s real good today.
CHIP: Oh yeah, I’m glad for that.
AGNES: Really appreciate dinner. Thank you.
CHIP: Mm-hmm. You’re welcome.
Any day now, those bears will start poking their heads out.
Maybe I’ll meet one.
SUE: Life is that curious thing
that chooses its own path.
Sort of filled with chaos.
It’s a beautiful disaster sometimes.
Well, this looks like, uh,
as good a spot as any to set up.
Time to get everything unloaded.
Found a place. There’s plenty of goose sign.
I need to call in the ladies.
Put my decoys out.
I don’t want to put out fifty.
But you kind of keep it close to the small size
because they’ll want to group up into bigger.
We have a little field of geese.
They’re wiggling around.
There’s tons of goose track all over.
So now, we just kind of wait and see.
(mimicking goose call)
While I’m sitting there
and I’ve got the ladies out, they’re doing their thing.
I’m actually really pleased with how they look.
I wanted to do a little bit more painting on the bodies.
But I want to see if it even works first
before I go whole hog.
(geese honking)
(bleep), there it goes.
They’re right on the other side of that brush over there.
I could probably walk to them.
(bleep)
The geese are far back now,
and we got ptarmigans coming.
It’s almost as if the ptarmigans are pushing the geese out,
which is bad luck for me.
I don’t want to lose the opportunity.
(mimicking goose call)
I think I just lost them all.
(bleep)
Tell you what, this wind is relentless.
The fog is descending, and, uh, it’s time to call it.
The geese have got the better of me.
But I have to call it, I have a camp to run.
Winter is still beckoning.
It’s winter chores.
I will always have my eyes looking
on the horizon for more.
I loved learning more.
I loved learning that there’s more to learn.
The fact that I didn’t get any duck-duck-goose
doesn’t matter.
I got little goose prints all over.
I’m picking the right places.
I’m doing the right things.
And one day, it’ll all come together.
So...
(mimicking goose call)
...see you later, guys!
Time for me to go home.
ANDY: Every time you hunt, you learn something from it,
whether you’re successful or whether you fail.
And usually, you learn a lot more from failures
than you do successes.
DENISE: Let’s go!
-ANDY: Woo-hoo! -DENISE: Whoa!
Ha ha, I wasn’t,
-wasn’t ready. -ANDY: Woo-hoo!
DENISE: Oh, you did it really good.
ANDY: Yeah!
DENISE: I’m stuck. (laughs)
ANDY: Everybody gets older,
but you don’t always have to stop being a kid.
That’s part of being out here, you know.
It’s just go out, explore,
have some fun with it, fool around,
make a fun day.
Okay. Well, I think we ought to turn around and head home
and we’ll see how the dogs do.
DENISE: Okay.
ANDY: It’s a long day for them so far.
DENISE: A good day for them.
ANDY: You’re doing such a good job.
You’re gonna get promoted to absolute lead dog.
(dog whines)
Absolute lead dog, Zorro.
-You good? -DENISE: Good.
ANDY: Okay, let’s go. Hup-hup!
Yeah! Let’s go.
Woo-hoo!
Alright!
Good boys.
DENISE: We’re all feeling,
in our own way, a sense of accomplishment
and a sense of a really great day.
Zorro has done very well in lead.
He’s so attentive. He’s so sharp to everything.
So we’ll just keep working him.
It’s a beginning process,
and it’s always learning
and teaching these dogs.
But Zorro did really well,
and you can just tell by looking at him
he feels proud about what he’s done.
Good boy! Go, Zorro.
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Hey, Denise, get your gun.
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DENISE: Okay. Hang on.
ANDY: There’s a bird up in the tree up here.
DENISE: Oh, I see him. How did you even spot that?
ANDY: He’s not gonna sit there forever.
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(gunshot)
DENISE: He’s dead.
You getting that one, Andy?
ANDY: Yeah. Put another bullet in.
Let’s try and get another one.
DENISE: Yup.
ANDY: He’s back in the woods.
(gunshot)
DENISE: There it is.
Straight on. Got it.
ANDY: That’s good. You got two.
DENISE: Yeah, that’s perfect.
ANDY: Alright. Good job.
DENISE: Supper time.
ANDY: Nothing like hunting when you’re hungry.
DENISE (laughs): Right?
What do you think about Zorro going
in the front team, the A team?
ANDY: Yeah, no, he’s, he’s ready.
I think he’d do it just fine.
DENISE: Look at him. He’s like, yes, I would.
I could eat that grouse just fine.
(laughs)
ANDY: A lot of real successes on this day trip.
We had a nice day to travel. We had some beautiful scenery.
We had some varied conditions to expose the dogs to.
It’s pretty much all pluses.
I didn’t really feel like there were any minuses
on what we did.
And so, that was,
that was the goal of the day and,
and that’s what we ended up with.
DENISE: Let’s toast to a great day.
ANDY: Toast.
DENISE: Cheers. (laughs)
RICKO: You have to have a lot of knowledge to get through this country.
Without that, you’ll perish out here.
Danger, when it comes knocking,
it’s game over for people that are inexperienced.
(exhales)
Long ride today.
I’m now at the hot springs.
I’m gonna cook up some caribou meat.
Let’s see how this goes.
The Selawik Hot springs are between
the hunting area and the family cabin.
And it’s a beautiful place to stop, relax, soak,
warm up, and help heal your body
from a long day’s travel.
What I got in here is caribou tongue, brisket,
and some of the leg meat.
Brisket gives it flavor.
Tongue puts some oil flavor in there.
And the meat is like
the wholehearted protein of it all.
There’s a method to this magic.
So good.
From what I remember my mom telling me,
is that mountain between me and the family cabin right now,
it’s called Deba’tlell Mountain, that means who’s mountain.
That’s because it don’t belong to the Indians,
it don’t belong to the Eskimos.
This right here is the hot springs, we call it.
And this is right in the center of Athabaskan Indians,
Inupiaq Inuit people.
And a long time ago, maybe a hundred years ago
before Western society came,
our people would war a lot between tribes
and fight for our land, fight for animals,
the right to eat.
But we also traded,
and this spot right here was the old trading post.
My grandparents, they couldn’t do this.
They couldn’t travel deep, deep, deep
into any other country and come back
with their own caribou.
That was part of survival out here,
is having to work with the very people
that you’re enemies with.
It’s a strange relationship.
This land right here belongs to the federal government now.
But this is real, real traditional Native land right here.
And this caribou I’m eating
is something our people depended on
hundreds and hundreds of years.
And that’s what...
...cultural knowledge is all about,
is preserving our way of life
and giving respect to the land
and the animals that have provided
for our people for generations.
So today, I burn food and I say
Antla Anaa Basee Dennahuto.
Anaa Basee Dennahuto.
Thank you to my late parents
and thank you to the Creator.
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