♪ ♪
JOHNNY: I'm on Kodiak Island.
Name of the game.
Just chased off some big game.
(insects buzzing)
Got to keep an eye out for the notorious large grizzly bears.
These are the largest griz in the world.
And you don't get brown bears any bigger than these.
They're pretty awesome majestic animals.
Just got to play it safe around them.
♪ ♪
(whispering) I'm gonna try this game trail right here,
and hopefully it'll lead me to where the game is.
All highways.
Fall time, I'm normally in the Arctic
at my hunting and trapping cabin.
Little deer hooves.
But I'm gonna be sticking around south central Alaska
a little bit longer this year
because of Java's recovery from her surgery.
So, it's important for me to go out and get some meat.
I might be going in a good direction.
There's some fresh deer (bleep) right here.
Fresh right there, too, another pile.
I've never hunted Kodiak Island,
so my plan is just walk around, let the land kind of teach me.
The brush is so thick.
Read the signs and let it tell me what I need to do.
♪ ♪
There's a branch that's moving up there.
I don't know what that was.
Maybe it's just the wind.
♪ ♪
Man, oh, man.
That's a grizzly bear.
It's a, it's a young one, too.
It's a young grizzly bear.
Because it's lighter.
One of the fun things about seeing this kind of stuff
is like it challenges me to think.
You kind of become a little bit of like a detective
at the same time, it's fun.
(whistling)
Look at this guy.
We got a griz right here.
Hey, buddy.
There you go.
Keep on moving, buddy.
That's a smaller griz.
They get much bigger out here.
The young ones are kind of like the young and dumb.
They make foolish mistakes.
Give him a little bit of space here.
Keep moving, buddy.
Keep on moving.
So, I'm gonna back up, because he could feel threatened
and just bluff over this little hill.
Here we come, buddy.
There he is, right there.
They're confident bears out here.
They're massive, you know.
He kind of reminds me of Java, the way he's just hanging out.
Don't get too comfortable around here.
(squeak)
CHEVIE: It's a human instinct to get your own food, to provide.
And it's in you to hunt,
to bring home meat.
It's tied to human nature.
There's one little cow took off running right up here.
There it is right there.
That's nice size cow.
See a cow like that, it's not if there is a bull, it's where.
SONTA: It ran in the woods.
You want me to get out and look?
CHEVIE: Yeah. Have a quick peek.
SONTA: Okay, you got to take the baby.
So, our lifestyle here is really dictated by the season.
It's moose hunting season,
and since we didn't get a moose this winter...
(whispering) Okay, girls, we got to be kind of quiet.
...we're really looking to get a moose now
and fill up our freezers and fill up our bellies.
My grandpa, your great grandpa, would come in here
and he'd check between these two sloughs,
and this is a high-traffic area for moose.
And if we spook something,
we got to have our guns out and be ready, okay?
EMRY: Mommy?
SONTA: Yup, you ready, Sydney, in case we see something?
SYDNEY: Yes!
EMRY: Not me.
SONTA: Okay. So, let's go see what we see, okay?
EMRY: Mm-hmm.
SONTA: The Athabascan culture goes on for thousands of years.
(whispering) Okay, girls, so we're gonna try to be a bull,
okay, be keeping your eyes out here.
And that knowledge is meant to be passed down and used.
I'm no longer just the hunter, you know, I am the teacher.
It's not about me, it's about them now.
(whispering) Sometimes you might just see something
stand straight up.
Maybe it was laying down.
Good, Bean.
Okay, let's listen for a little bit.
Just stop and listen for a minute.
Keep looking around, make sure, see if anything changed
from the last time you looked.
CHEVIE: What'd you guys see out there?
SONTA: Not a lot of traffic here, but I know they're moving.
CHEVIE: In the past we've put pressure on Sydney
to have successful moose hunts.
It was a real learning curve for me.
Sydney, go ahead and tie up the boat, baby.
This fall we had a different approach.
Let's just go out as a family.
You guys want to go check out that tree fort?
EMRY: Yes.
CHEVIE: Let's put ourselves in the best situation
to bring home a moose with the team that we have.
(imitates moose call)
And we don't know who's gonna take that final shot,
but everybody be prepared.
(moose groans)
(whispering) You hear that?
I'm pretty sure that that was a cow.
EMRY: What's a cow?
CHEVIE: It's a girl. SYDNEY: It's a female.
CHEVIE: Female, yeah.
SYDNEY: It's okay if I try a moose call?
CHEVIE: Yeah, go ahead, baby, try.
(imitates moose call)
Plug your nose, go like this, ehhhr-wehrr, talking like this.
(nasal bellowing)
Yeah, go ahead.
(nasal groan)
Go ahead, try to get it out there.
(imitates moose call)
When I was a little boy, guys, like your guys' age,
Papa would always tell me right now, he'd always say,
"Life just can't get much better than this."
And I never understood why, because nothing's happening.
It's so boring right now.
EMRY: Yeah.
CHEVIE: But you got to learn to appreciate these quiet times.
Be able to sit back and absorb them, okay?
And just know that the time's gonna come,
you're gonna see that moose.
But it's all the lead up to it, and it's everything up to it.
It's all the, it's all the looking and watching,
being together as a family that really makes it.
Where is that moose? It's got to be right out there somewhere.
♪ ♪
(zip)
(engine starts)
MARIO: I literally could not have ever dreamt
of living a life like this,
and I feel really lucky to not be out here alone.
My name is Mario Quezada.
My wife Clare, this is her first winter in Alaska,
and she's just as crucial to the success of this as I am.
CLARE: I do wonder sometimes what we've gotten into out here.
You know, I'm still finding my way,
but I definitely wouldn't change it for anything.
♪ ♪
MARIO: What the (bleep) is this?
This is a huge chunk of hair.
CLARE: Yeah.
Look, this is, this is wet.
MARIO: This just happened this morning.
There's blood, blood, blood.
It looks like two animals came and they met on the trail,
and there was a big fight right here.
Um, it looks like either potentially a bear.
CLARE: Swipes.
MARIO: A couple of swipes and claw marks right there.
This is a pretty significant injury.
Let's try to, try to track this animal down,
see where the blood goes.
Put it out.
Alright.
It looks like it came this way.
So, it's fall time here in Alaska.
You know, Clare and I are not only looking for moose,
but also black bear.
But if we don't see any big game,
then we'll keep our fingers crossed
for harvesting small game.
Look at all that.
CLARE: Yup.
MARIO: Just right here.
CLARE: So, Hayes Creek is off the grid.
MARIO: They're very clearly walking this path.
CLARE: Mario hasn't been up here for the last few years
while I finished two years of school in Montana.
MARIO: We lost the blood trail,
but we can go back up there, you know, and check.
I first came to Alaska after I graduated from West Point.
I got the assignment to come up here
and be an Arctic paratrooper,
and it was really the first time I'd ever been exposed
to any wild place like this.
I grew up in Las Vegas, Nevada.
And it was really interesting to, to be like, wait,
I have to do everything for myself.
♪ ♪
Clare! Right there, here.
Grouse.
Here, get closer and look.
Alright, aim and shoot.
CLARE: Oh, I see him back there.
(gunshot)
MARIO: Here, I'll, I'll trade you.
♪ ♪
There you go.
Good job. Alright, hold on.
CLARE: Got my first grouse.
(chuckles)
See if there's any more.
♪ ♪
MARIO: I think that's it.
I think the rest flew away.
CLARE: Sure.
MARIO: Wow.
(insects buzzing)
JOHNNY: You know, it's just a lot of extremes on this island.
You got the wind,
the rain, bears.
It's just an extreme kind of place.
Let's not forget to mention the bugs.
♪ ♪
(whistling)
It's a way to call deer,
but it's also really bad idea, 'cause it calls in bears.
They're like, "Oh, cool, there's a fawn to eat."
'Cause that's another big thing they like to eat, fawn.
Alright, I'm gonna go find a spot to just park
and just kind of glass for a minute.
You know, with all these game trails,
all these signs I'm seeing,
but if I don't have to hike up these spaces,
I won't.
For now, I'm just gonna kind of linger around the lowlands,
the hillsides, and just feel it out.
♪ ♪
(whispering) There's a doe.
It's way up there.
I could try to somehow find a way to get that one.
More likely fail and scare off the potential for other deer
that might come through.
So, it's better to just be patient
instead of spreading my stink all over the place.
♪ ♪
Let's go see if I can find some more.
The name of this game is just shooting one
that I have a clear shot of,
you know, I don't want to take sloppy shots,
I don't want to take risky shots,
and I don't want to shoot one
that I won't be able to retrieve.
(sniffing)
♪ ♪
It's like a musky, soury smell, which is generally a bear.
Like a big brown bear.
I hate smelling that, too.
Sometimes it's like,
is that thing just hunkered down somewhere
and I'm gonna spook, you know, kind of come up on it or not?
It's a part of hunting.
Yeah.
You know, going through, like, thick brush like this,
I want to be as quiet as I can.
I don't want to scare any deer off,
but when you're inhabiting an island
with the largest brown bears in the world,
you're like, "Well, maybe I need to make a little noise."
And I just get torn.
It's not an easy place to hunt.
But I know at the end of it, if I am successful,
the reward's going to outweigh these problems.
Nothing.
Yeah, so I'm just gonna head back to camp.
Stop poking around for the evening.
Maybe get a fresh start tomorrow.
Our bear is back right here.
My camp's just right up here, and it's pretty dang curious.
If I got to fire a round over its head, I will.
Because I don't want the bear to die, ultimately.
Young bears are just...
You know, picture a teenager, right?
Got a little bit of attitude,
and they haven't learned anything the hard way yet.
Hey, buddy!
I almost want to fire a round
just to see if that might scare him off,
because last time we had a conversation together,
that didn't scare him off.
Yeah, I might just pop a round or two off.
Alright.
(gunshot)
Shoot toward the hill.
(gunshot)
That'll get your ear ringing real quick.
Ay-ay-ay.
Should be fun sleeping tonight.
(imitating moose call)
CHEVELLE: Oh!
Oh!
(Chevie imitates moose call)
Oh!
CHEVIE: We're not sport hunters trying to get big horns
or trying to put something on our wall.
We're out there to put food on the table, to eat off the land.
SONTA: A wolf.
EMRY: Where?
SONTA: Right here.
CHEVIE: Dang, he looks good, too.
SONTA: Yeah.
EMRY: Oh, I wanted to see it.
CHEVIE: We have an intimate relationship with wolves.
A lot of fresh tracks right there, too, Sonta.
They're out looking for the same thing we are.
SONTA: There's a cow right there, Chev.
No bull, though.
EMRY: It's a girl?
SONTA: Yeah, that's the one we don't want to get
this time of year.
Because they're gonna get ready to have babies
sometime in the spring, so we're just looking for the boy ones.
CHEVIE: Go back there and look and call
a little bit right here.
Stuff's moving right now.
You got to figure out where's the best place to be
to bring home this meat.
It's a lot of pressure, and I want my kids to be able
to perform under pressure.
Good?
Okay, make sure you hold on to that gun good.
But if our kids fall a little bit short, it's okay.
Because they know that we have their back.
(imitating moose call)
Sometimes when you call in this thick brush like this
that you could see through a little bit,
sometimes it's a good place to call,
because those moose feel kind of protected,
like they're not walking across the big opening.
You hear your--listen.
(Emry talking)
You hear them talking?
You hear Emry?
SYDNEY: Yeah. I thought it was moose.
CHEVIE: No. Emry, see how loud her voice is?
That's how much your voice carries,
so we got to be really, try to be more, try to be quiet.
They got to quiet down.
♪ ♪
SYDNEY: Dad.
CHEVIE: Wait, wait, wait.
What the hell is it that there?
CHEVIE: (whispering) I don't think it's moving, though.
It's just a dark spot in the brush.
Come here, you see that?
Dark spot straight over there.
SYDNEY: Yeah.
(Emry talking)
CHEVIE: Let's go back to the boat,
those guys are being too loud.
Come on.
It sounds like a damn nursery over here.
CHEVELLE: Hello!
CHEVIE: Hi, baby.
EMRY: Okay, Mommy, your turn.
CHEVIE: When you're out on your own, you're streamlined.
Five people are a lot louder than one.
Sydney, Sydney.
Go ahead and call.
SYDNEY: Uh, boy or girl?
CHEVIE: Whatever one you want.
But it's the time for them to learn.
(imitates moose call)
This is the time that they're impressionable.
This is the time that you want them to get comfortable
in the woods.
(imitates moose call)
♪ ♪
SONTA: You hear something out there?
CHEVIE: Yeah.
CHEVELLE: Ah!
CHEVIE: Come here.
SONTA: Just back there?
CHEVIE: You hear that "hoh"? SONTA: Yeah.
CHEVIE: "Hoh."
♪ ♪
(whispering) Hear it? I heard it for sure again.
SONTA: Over that way? CHEVIE: Yeah.
♪ ♪
There's a bull out there.
Sounds like it's distant,
but it's always nice to hear something call back.
(Emry grunts)
You guys will be good at it by the time you get older.
MARIO: Oh, shoot.
There's a tree.
There's a really big learning curve out here.
Actually, I wouldn't even call it a learning curve,
I'd call it like a learning, I think, cliff.
My parents think I'm crazy for coming out here.
1, 2, 3! (grunts)
You know, they don't understand how...
Okay, another good one.
...simplifying things in life can really...
1, 2, 3.
Oh, there you go!
...fulfill somebody.
(engine chugging)
Alright, ready?
CLARE: Yup.
Living out here is very challenging.
But I did grow up in Wisconsin
and spent the last three years in the mountains of Montana.
MARIO: Alright, let's go.
CLARE: So being out here is not entirely new to me.
MARIO: Look. There's some moose track right there.
That's the bull moose dewclaw.
Water as well.
Oh, man.
CLARE: Yup.
MARIO: This is a really good sign.
CLARE: Good sign. MARIO: Yeah. Okay.
CLARE: This is all trampled.
MARIO: Yeah, and look, tracks everywhere.
CLARE: Yeah.
MARIO: Look at this, it's going through here, up through there.
This is just a really, really dense area.
CLARE: Poop right there. MARIO: Yeah. Oh, (bleep).
CLARE: Let's check that out.
♪ ♪
MARIO: How fresh is it?
It's pretty--okay.
That's good.
CLARE: It's going to be a challenge
my first winter out here.
MARIO: Oh, (bleep). CLARE: Grouse!
MARIO: Do you want to shoot it? CLARE: I don't see it.
MARIO: Here, I see it. Hold this, hold this.
CLARE: We need to be fully stocked.
(gunshot)
Not being able to leave the mountain...
(blows)
Did you get it? MARIO: Yeah.
CLARE: ...is a harsh reality for us.
We can't just walk to the grocery store anymore
or, you know, call an Uber.
And it's definitely something we don't take lightly.
MARIO: Thank you!
We got dinner.
Oh, man.
♪ ♪
JOHNNY: I'm trying to get to this goat.
This lifestyle I live,
I have no societal rules and regulations.
I mean, I follow nature's rules,
I follow the ways of the animals.
(chirping)
♪ ♪
There's a goat right here on the riverbank.
If I shot it, it'd fall right in the river.
Pretty low for a goat.
Goats don't normally come down this low this time of year.
It's looking right at me.
Those suckers got good eyesight.
If I move fast, I could have a shot at that thing.
♪ ♪
It's moving, so I'm gonna move.
♪ ♪
It's not often you see a goat low.
Anytime you want to hunt goats, you got to climb to the heavens,
and to see one that low,
that is an opportunity you cannot let go.
♪ ♪
I see him.
♪ ♪
Oh, he's in the river.
JOHNNY: Crossing in the deep river.
(bleep, bleep)
♪ ♪
(gunshot)
♪ ♪
Ugh.
That was a miss.
Let's go investigate.
♪ ♪
It was a terrible shot.
And, uh...huh, there he is.
He's on the mountainside right there.
I'm just gonna get a look at him through the scope.
♪ ♪
Unscathed. That's good to know.
It's too far from here, buddy.
He's like, "Man, I just wanted to go for a walk.
I got some idiot chasing me down with a gun."
He's a billy, alright.
Phew.
CHEVIE: (whispering) It's a really nice night.
Just like people, animals want to move.
So I just want to get up,
see if I can see anything from on top of this roof.
This was built for the kids.
The big kids.
♪ ♪
SYDNEY: A hunter is a very special person in our culture,
'cause they provide food for elders, people who can't hunt.
And you are one step closer to, like, adulthood.
♪ ♪
CHEVIE: That's a big moose.
He's a long ways away.
I know right where he's at.
And he's not that far from the slough.
Right now, the wind's blowing at my back
straight across the flat, south wind.
So this isn't the best place to try to call in an animal
with the amount of wind that we got right here,
it's just...probably smell us.
(imitating moose call)
SYDNEY: (whispering) Dad is moose calling from the roof
to get, like, a better advantage.
(imitating moose call)
CHEVIE: I got a cow right here, it's coming this way.
Might have a bull with her, too, you never know.
Now there's two moose right over there.
Moose are stepping out all over right now.
But that big bull is moving.
I'm tempted just to motor over there and call a little closer.
SYDNEY: Dad?
CHEVIE: Yeah?
SYDNEY: When are you gonna come down?
CHEVIE: There's a big bull moose out here.
You can't see him from over there, from down there.
I just don't have him convinced that I'm worth the work.
(whispering) Let's go, you guys. Let's go down.
I want to take that boat around
while we got daylight and get over there.
See if we can call in that big bull.
SYDNEY: Okay.
♪ ♪
CHEVIE: Hey, hey, hey. Come here. Come here.
♪ ♪
(imitates moose call)
You see that bull moose right there?
SYDNEY: Yeah, it's right in front.
It already has a bullet in it.
(imitates moose call)
CHEVIE: Come here, I'll back you up.
Wait for it to get closer.
SYDNEY: I can't find it.
CHEVIE: Get your chin down.
(imitating moose call)
You see it, baby?
Over here, this way.
SYDNEY: I am looking for it in there.
CHEVIE: You see it?
Let it just...it's got to turn sideways to you, okay?
You can't shoot it in the head.
Pull it up right here.
♪ ♪
(imitates moose call)
It's gonna come right here through the brush.
SYDNEY: I can't hold it, Dad.
CHEVIE: Set it down. Rest it.
He's gonna come right here through the brush.
See that opening?
SYDNEY: Yeah.
CHEVIE: Right there, shoot it.
(imitates moose call)
You see it?
(gunshot)
CHEVIE: Good shot. Good shot. You hit it.
SYDNEY: I did? CHEVIE: Yeah.
SYDNEY: Yay.
CHEVIE: Okay, hold on.
(rustling)
Come here.
SYDNEY: I'm gonna have to do it again?
CHEVIE: You got to hit it in the head.
You see its head right there?
SYDNEY: Yeah.
CHEVIE: Okay, you wait for it to put its head up
and then you're gonna kill it, okay?
SYDNEY: Okay.
CHEVIE: Come over here.
Okay.
SYDNEY: Just a little bit more.
Okay.
(gunshot)
CHEVIE: That was a little low.
It's okay.
Okay.
Here, I'm just gonna do it, okay?
I don't want to let it suffer anymore, okay?
SYDNEY: Okay. Go ahead, Dad.
♪ ♪
(gunshot)
♪ ♪
CHEVIE: First moose.
SYDNEY: It's my first moose, Dad?
Does it count if you get the last one and kill it?
CHEVIE: It doesn't matter.
The way that it is with hunting, you drew the first blood.
SYDNEY: Okay.
CHEVIE: You hit it hard enough
right through its front shoulders
that it was, it went down.
It was standing right here.
It just, it couldn't go.
It was done.
EMRY: Mommy! Come look!
SONTA: Good job, Bean.
She shot from the tree fort?
CHEVIE: Yeah. SONTA: Wow.
Is this technically her first moose?
CHEVIE: First moose.
SONTA: Oh, wow, Sydney.
Heck of a deal, Sydney.
Heck of a deal. That's good eating.
CHEVIE: Yeah.
MARIO: People prefer the certainty of misery
versus the misery of uncertainty.
People will continue to do day after day
what kills them inside
versus take a chance and potentially be successful
at what deeply fulfills them.
Something's obviously walking this trail,
you can see everything's beaten down on it.
♪ ♪
Oh, look at this.
That's black bear scat.
This scat starts here and it trails all the way over here,
and you can see how fresh some of this scat is.
Oh, there's some more right here.
You know, if I don't see him today,
I'm still gathering all the information that I can gather,
and hopefully one day our paths cross
and I'm able to harvest this animal.
(engine chugging)
I went to West Point
and I served in the military as an officer.
Look at that.
When I got out of the military,
people had really high expectations of me.
I was basically living for everybody else but myself.
(gunshot)
♪ ♪
What people thought wealth and success looked like for me
wasn't fulfilling my soul, it was really heavy.
Oh, where'd it go?
(wings flapping)
Oh, there it is.
(gunshot)
It wasn't really giving me the avenue that I needed
to live a healthy lifestyle.
You know, I really felt like I was a caged animal.
I'd finally just...
Uh. (gunshot)
...had enough one day.
♪ ♪
Just right here.
(gunshot)
I quit my job, and I just took off with no plan and...
Right there.
...hardly any money.
(gunshot)
You know, I didn't know what I was looking for,
and I was hoping that it would find me,
and I knew that I had to head north to Alaska to do it.
I had nothing left to lose.
(chuckles)
It was either that or keep dying every day down in the Lower 48.
♪ ♪
JOHNNY: This island is not easy, man.
♪ ♪
This island's been kicking my ass.
♪ ♪
It's just such an adventure out here.
This island is wild. It's teeming with game.
I really enjoy chasing down my food.
I really enjoy being one with nature.
♪ ♪
That's about 150 yards, which is doable.
♪ ♪
So, I got a deer.
Right down here's a doe.
I think it spotted me, but I'm gonna try to mosey down
and get a clean shot.
I'm gonna get in position.
♪ ♪
It knows that I'm here.
♪ ♪
It's a tough shot, man.
♪ ♪
My heart...
It's making the gun just like pulse way too much.
♪ ♪
(gunshot)
(sighs)
JOHNNY: I'm glad I waited, man.
My heart was just...
It happens hunting.
I'm about to take a life,
and I was just beating too much on my gun,
the way I was initially sitting
was just pulsing the stock of my gun.
Okay.
♪ ♪
Alright.
It's a small one.
But it's a start for my food source.
You know, hiked all over, went after a goat.
We'll see if I get up to the Arctic soon,
chase down some caribou.
In a perfect world, I get, it's a big, fat deer,
but this little guy will feed me for a little bit.
You know, I'm just, I'm happy and grateful to be able
to come out here and hunt a sustainable food source
and not contribute to, uh,
commercial farm industry.
♪ ♪
CHEVIE: The one thing that I've come to realize living here
is that the land will provide, it's just a matter of time.
Oh, you're younger than me.
I didn't get my first moose until I was probably 14 or 15.
You got me beat there.
SYDNEY: Yay.
CHEVIE: If you treat the land right,
it's gonna treat you right.
Look, right here is the hole in there.
It's right behind the front leg.
SYDNEY: Yay.
CHEVIE: And you punched it through both lungs,
double lungs.
SONTA: Awesome, guys. Check it out.
Cool.
You guys got a lot of work done already.
SYDNEY: Uh-huh.
SONTA: Alright, so, Bean, once we get back to town,
what we're gonna do is make some soup.
EMRY: And pass it all around.
SONTA: And pass it all around.
CHEVIE: Yup.
(engine running)
CLARE: Hello.
MARIO: Hey, how's it going?
CLARE: Good. Welcome back. Hi.
MARIO: Hi. CLARE: What'd you get?
MARIO: Well, I didn't see any bear or moose,
but I did see a lot of sign.
CLARE: Woo.
MARIO: And I got six grouse.
CLARE: Oh, my god.
MARIO: Yeah.
SONTA: Our people here...
MARIO: Lungs.
SONTA: ...they knew that raising kids in this way
was a great way to grow hunters that provided.
That's how I was raised,
and so I want to raise my kids the exact same way.
JOHNNY: This fat right here
is what kind of encases
a lot of the innards,
and I like to wrap the tenderloin
and stuff like that in it, throw it in the frying pan.
(sizzling)
CLARE: I say we're eating pretty good tonight.
MARIO: Yeah.
CLARE: Mmm, yummy!
MARIO: Yeah, I know, that looks really good.
CLARE: Yeah, it does. MARIO: Oh, my god.
(Clare laughs)
To me, we're living a really successful life out here.
We might not have those huge victories,
but they say you eat an elephant one bite at a time,
and you know, how do you live an entire lifetime in Alaska?
One day at a time.
SONTA: Some potatoes and moose meat.
This is good.
This is the chest bone soup, and I know a lot of people like it.
Heck, yeah.
Alright, Bean, this is hot, hot, hot.
Ready to go.
This process isn't about just giving food.
It's about symbolizing this milestone in her life
and solidifying her as a hunter
and giving her that confidence as a person.
Yup, we'll hit the road,
go house to house, make sure everyone gets some.
SYDNEY: Hunting is a part of who I am,
because I'm an Alaska Native,
and it's in my culture.
My ancestors did this.
Mom did this when she was little.
Every generation.
We're made for it.
JOHNNY: As a hunter, everything is just so much more peaceful
after kind of getting your butt kicked and working hard.
Oh, my god!
Look at this.
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CHEVIE: I'll say it again.
As a kid, I'd be out suffering with my dad hunting,
and he would look at me with a smile on his face and say,
"It doesn't get much better than this,"
and I'd think, I'm screwed.
(barking)
I'm out here with an old man in the rain,
not with my friends, not doing anything.
Life doesn't get better than this?
JOHNNY: No way.
He got one, he got a little fish.
CHEVIE: Kids...
people aren't always gonna digest stuff right away.
My dad's still teaching me
from the things he told me 25 years ago.
MARIO: There's a nice little spot over here.
CHEVIE: And now I understand.
SONTA: Hi, Grandpa.
Yeah.
GRANDPA: So you're the hunter.
SYDNEY: Yeah, I got my first moose.
GRANDPA: I can retire now.
SYDNEY: What?
GRANDPA: Right?
SYDNEY: This one is yours, and one is Grandma's.
GRANDPA: You know what this is about, right?
I'm wishing you luck.
All my luck that I got
is now yours.
SYDNEY: Okay.
GRANDPA: So, good job.
Very, very good job.
CLARE: Life really doesn't get any better than this.
No matter the day, any day is a good day
when you're out on the land.
SYDNEY: Who are we gonna do next?
SONTA: Oh, we'll keep going around town and visiting.
People will be wishing you good things, good luck.
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