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JOHN: This whole area look like an ocean.
It was covered with water.
I was scared.
I was uh, afraid.
73 years of my life, I've never seen anything like that.
(wind blowing)
A lot of the boats were swept away.
My big boat got swept away and two other boats.
We couldn't even try to rescue them
because the wind was too high.
A good running boat is our livelihood.
Our people go out and subsist for food.
They look for seals, birds, and ducks to eat.
If we don't have boats, we're gonna be starving.
(theme music plays)
The only thing that came that was good for our people
here in Chevak was the wood.
The drift wood.
We have abundance of firewood right now that people can use
and we're fortunate.
All the villages along the coast don't lose any lives.
They were all safe and alive.
We might have lost homes, boats, but those can be replaced.
But human life could never be replaced.
We cannot be afraid of what has happened.
And we are aware that even more powerful storms
are gonna be coming soon because of the global warming.
But our elders tell us, don't give up.
You have to stand up and continue the life.
You have to walk against the wind.
DANIELLE: We're very lucky to be who we are as native people.
We're very lucky to have what we have.
I've never hunted with you in the snow before.
DANIEL: A new experience.
Changing of seasons from fall to winter,
game's more abundant.
Gonna be more seal, walrus and bowhead whale.
DANIELLE: Really? DANIEL: Yeah.
DANIELLE: This is called a Nengki.
Seal blind.
We have them all over the coast, all over the island.
These blinds are made so the seals aren't able to
really see you when you're hunting.
Those are humpback whales.
DANIEL: Humpback and uh gray whale.
That's a good sign.
DANIEL: The wind is coming straight in from the west so
whatever seals we catch in the water,
they'll just drift right in.
DANIELLE: Maybe I'll catch my first seal from the blind.
DANIEL: I'll be your cheerleader, huh.
DANIEL: The experience this makes me happy.
DANIELLE: Uh huh. DANIEL: My buddy.
I'm happy she's here.
When she first left, there was a big void in our family.
DANIELLE: Growing up here was real hard for me.
Taking care of the boys.
DANIEL: Yeah, you were basically our third uh parent huh?
DANIELLE: I just moved away to experience the westernized life.
DANIEL: Being in the city?
DANIELLE: Yeah, I needed to expand my wings.
Living in the city just made me realize,
living a subsistence lifestyle is more for me.
Felt like I was losing myself as a person.
Come on seals.
DANIEL: Seal!
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DANIELLE: (bleep) bird.
(laughing)
It's nice but the damn snow.
DANIELLE: Yeah.
TIG: You're gonna be learning up until the day you die.
You'll never ever stop learning.
There's no way any one person can know everything
about this country.
We're gonna check this little water area right here.
EVAN: Okay.
TIG: See how there's no snow on top?
EVAN: Yeah.
TIG: You can tell it just froze recently.
(chopping)
EVAN: Can I come over there? TIG: Yeah, you're good.
EVAN: Okay.
TIG: Anytime you ever do anything with any type of ice,
you check it with an axe in front of you.
You don't test by your feet.
You'll sink yourself.
So, you gotta reach out, check it and keep doing that.
It might be thick right here, but the water might be flowing
right there, you know.
And that water flowing will keep it thin.
These first little crossings, we do have to stop and check them.
It's not big and dangerous where we might drown or anything
but you definitely get messed up in them in the snow machine.
EVAN: Yep.
TIG: Good time of the year to bring the young ones out and
show them some trapping.
I wanna try for some rabbit.
They do have good fur and still get a good meal
out of the rabbit.
Rabbit tracks.
Look around, make sure no little bunny jump up on us.
Wabbit season.
Now we gotta cut in the notch for the trigger.
Take your time on this so you don't cut into this notch,
weaken it.
This rabbit snares that we're gonna be setting
is a spring pull.
There's a little bit of work that you gotta put behind it.
There's the anchor, there's the trigger and how to set them.
Come hold these triggers together.
Hold two of them together.
There's no suffering when they catch like this.
Sure, fast, instant death.
Once he gets into this trail, it's gonna give him less of an
opportunity to go off the sides of the trail, he's gonna
have to keep going through it.
So that's why we put these guide sticks.
And so when the rabbit gets caught, he's gonna run
this way or that way.
He's gonna pull on that trigger and hypothetically speaking,
he's gonna shoot into the air.
Just like the mailbox.
You got mail, you flip up the flag.
We got a rabbit, little guys gonna flip up in the air and
we're gonna know it.
All right, let's go look for some more tracks and
set up another one.
JOEL: It is something that's kinda been lost.
And it does make the elders happy and excited that
you're getting out there and doing what they used to do.
JOEL: Yeah, this is the end.
End of the line right here.
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The fish are all spawned up now.
These are uh, sockeye salmon.
Some of them are still spawning, you can see eggs and stuff
in the water, but the fish are kinda like this
all over the place up here right now.
I mean they're in the lake, they're in the creeks,
I mean they're everywhere.
You gotta catch them as soon as they get into the lake
basically cause once, they hit fresh water,
they stop feeding and then they start basically dying.
They start turning red and their meat starts to turn white,
and they no longer taste good at all.
And it's like mushy. It's like soft.
They're not good to eat.
For the next couple weeks, they'll be fish around just
kinda dying and floating up on the beach.
Can tell that the bears have been coming down cause all,
all the grass is all matted down and there's dead fish
all over the place.
This is kinda their feeding ground.
Let's see what else I can see.
Oh man, look at that.
The bears stashing his fish right here.
It's super fresh too.
And once the bears get full,
they'll kinda stop eating the whole salmon.
They'll just start eating like the good parts,
like the belly and stuff.
Think I'm gonna keep going a little more.
Do a little more exploring.
That's a pretty cool find.
It's good just to get out and explore.
Stuff's kinda always changing out here too you know.
The topography of the land and it's good to see
if the salmon are schooling up in different places.
How many bears are out and about.
You know, what all the animals are up to this time of the year.
I'm back here just kinda checking out where the
bears are hanging out.
Where they're at and about how many there are around.
I mean there's, there's a lot of bears around here.
They will try to protect their feeding ground.
That is something you kinda have to worry about cause
we're like right where they're eating right now.
I like kinda knowing what they're doing, where they're at.
Partially just so you can stay away from them
kind of a thing.
Cause certain years you'll have more aggressive bears.
Some years you'll have bears that break into stuff.
But there is that off chance that you run into that bear
that just wants to eat your face off.
I can hear the bears move around in here but I can't see 'em.
I don't like being this low to 'em.
I'm gonna climb up this hill up here so I can kinda see
what's going on.
Don't have to have a showdown with a bear if I don't have to.
Oh (bleep), that's a brown bear!
JOEL: It's a pretty big bear.
JOEL: Growing up out here it's burnt into you that
you shouldn't really be afraid of them.
I mean you should respect them, but they do just want to
leave you alone for the most part.
Three bears just came out of the woods.
They're fighting over a fishing spot.
They're a pretty good size too.
They're coming to check out the salmon in that creek.
I'm not really worried about the bears, partially because
I have a gun.
They don't really care about you.
Especially right now cause they have like as much food
as they can eat.
This time of year,
you can really see the life cycle of everything.
You know cause the fish are coming up and everything kinda
seems to feed off the fish somewhat.
There's just thousands of fish out here.
The seals are coming in to eat the salmon.
I mean the bears are here.
Be nice if I can get out, catch some pike and
maybe shoot a seal.
You know, have a little variety.
JOHN: We have to thank our creator every day.
For the life that he has given us
right here in the tundra land.
After that typhoon, our people were very helpful.
Their humanity spirit came to life.
When they were rescuing the boats,
they were helping each other,
and some boats were saved.
My big boat, I got to rescue it.
JOHN: But two other boats got swept away.
This typhoon was a wakeup call for me.
After this whole area was flooded and we don't know
the condition of our camp.
And so, we need to go and check and see how our camp is.
The water went over our camp for sure but
when we get there, we'll find out.
TERESA: No doubt. JOHN: Okay?
TERESA: Yeah, okay. All right.
JOHN: Okay Sonna Boy? SONNA BOY: Yep.
TERESA: This is the first time we're going to go out to camp
and observe what was destroyed.
What's not there anymore.
TERESA: It's, I, I don't want to see what's uh,
what was taken but and destroyed but you know and with us um,
life is so much more important than material things.
This is our fish camp.
It looks so empty, it looks so bare.
JOHN: Look how far our Weatherport has gone.
Way across there.
TERESA: That was our main house.
That's where all the family gathered and cooked and
did everything together.
So that's all gone.
I hope our uh foundation fared well.
Now we got to go and see what we can salvage.
It's really sad to see.
DANIELLE: I am the generation of today and I am learning the
traditions of my father, my family and my culture.
DANIEL: I think you could get two seals.
If you could get two seals, that would be great.
DANIEL: Different spot, hopefully see more seals.
Plus, we got a higher vantage point a little bit.
DANIELLE: Uh huh.
And we're up on a hill so you can see game better.
DANIEL: You know, each day is a different day.
Might see more or might see less.
The tide is a little low today for some reason.
Kinda wavey.
If the tide comes up you know, you'll start seeing seals.
Have a little bit better vantage point right here, huh?
DANIELLE: It's a good spot.
Well in my family, I'm treated as an equal.
Not many people support women hunting.
But I have to step up in the family because we need
food on the table and my brother broke his leg recently and
my dad is getting a little old.
What is this place called?
DANIEL: Being away from home for a while she's been
asking me about our language.
She's more interested in our traditional ways now.
DANIELLE: A waiting game.
DANIEL: Yeah, that's hunting.
DANIELLE: Growing up me and my dad didn't really get along
but today we've grown really close in our relationship and
I'm super thankful for him and everything he's teaching me.
DANIEL: Come on seal.
Come out come out wherever you are.
DANIELLE: They come from both ways, huh?
DANIEL: Yeah, you can really see them when they're coming
down the coast, you'll know.
DANIELLE: Oh look, dad!
DANIEL: Right there. DANIELLE: Kaviiq!
DANIEL: Probably looking for bird or seal or something.
DANIELLE: Do we eat those? DANIEL: No.
DANIELLE: It looks like it's limping.
DANIEL: Just keep an eye out for it if it gets too close.
DANIELLE: Could also be fake limping.
No blood or anything on its paw.
Wonder why it's really limping.
DANIEL: I don't know.
DANIELLE: Bird?
DANIELLE: That's all I ever see.
DANIEL: Nothing but birds.
You know, you may be a good hunter, but they'll be days
for some reason you can't catch anything at all.
Being a successful hunter, they learn from all the
mistakes you make on each hunting trip.
DANIELLE: What I'm learning from my dad is literally everything.
He knows a lot, he's very well experienced with hunting.
DANIEL: Most seals I brought home in one fall season is 38.
DANIELLE: Holy cow.
You know how many I brought home?
DANIEL: How many?
DANIELLE: Zero.
DANIEL: Zero.
Well, you just barley started out.
Now you go out more and more often, you'll learn.
DANIELLE: Look at that kaviiq hunting.
It's not limping anymore. Real pretty.
DANIEL: Getting braver and braver.
I can make it, no I won't.
I'm going back.
DANIELLE: I haven't seen one single seal yet.
DANIEL: Hunting for seal is a matter of having patience
for it, you know.
Some days you won't see a single seal all day.
And uh, they'll be times where you see more than ten,
20 seals in uh, in the day.
DANIELLE: Well, we've been here for a couple hours, huh?
The waves haven't really changed and the tide's
slowly coming in, but the waves are still.
DANIEL: Kinda rough. DANIELLE: Yeah.
DANIEL: Oh, might as well head home, huh?
Been a slow day today, huh?
DANIELLE: Yep. DANIEL: Okay.
DANIELLE: I don't know, I think the seals are hiding from me.
DANIEL: Every day is a different story.
TIG: The more work we can put in right now, early in the year,
it's gonna make the year a whole lot easier.
All right, you wanna try and make the trigger?
EVAN: Yeah. TIG: You remember how?
EVAN: Yeah.
TIG: Only 20 years ago I teach you.
If I did happen to catch a rabbit, me and my son,
you know I'd like to skin it out and
make a pot of soup for the kids.
And then with these rabbit furs, they're so thin and
easy to work with it that it doesn't take much to
tan up a rabbit fur.
Peel that skin off.
EVAN: It's like peeling a potato, right?
Shouldn't be that hard.
TIG: Don't cut your finger off, take your time.
Can't just wake up and be badass one day.
It takes practice.
By the time I was eight or nine,
I used to snowshoe across the river by myself.
By time I had my line set you know, eight-nine years old,
I'd have 30, 40 rabbit snares out there.
EVAN: Is this good? TIG: Uh-hmm.
All right, you gotta cut your little notch in.
How far?
EVAN: Halfway? TIG: Halfway.
EVAN: Okay.
TIG: Rest it on this so you're not.
EVAN: Okay.
TIG: We don't have a whole lot to pass on to our children
once we go, you know.
But then, once I go, you know the inheritance that my kids
are gonna be getting from me is all my knowledge,
my skills, my traditional sense, and cultural sense.
That's the stuff that I'm passing down to my children.
See the anchor.
TIG: Yeah. Yep.
TIG: Yeah, I used to get frustrated.
That's for sure.
All right, let go.
Oh! (bleep).
Snapped my anchor.
Yeah, we gotta be careful while we're setting these,
I don't want to smack myself.
I don't want to smack my son and get my finger stuck in
that snare and it whips up like that it might
break my fingers.
It is a little more dangerous than setting a rabbit snare
across the trail but it's a lot more fun also.
EVAN: Dad. TIG: Huh?
TIG: All right, good, we're in the right area.
I'm sure hoping we come back next couple days and there's a
rabbit dangling there.
All right my boy, we did all we can do here.
JOEL: Kinda gotta get out of the village to realize
how your life is in the village.
You know, how it's different from other people's lives.
There's a big bald eagle up here checking out the scene.
Oh, it's popped up right here.
I came up on a couple of seals out here.
I'm gonna try to get as close as I can.
Gonna be hard out here cause they can already
see me coming.
So, it's actually pretty tricky to hunt seals 'cause
they sink when you shoot them.
You pretty much have to catch them on like a
reef or something.
Oh, he's going under.
Iliamna Lake is one of the very few lakes that has
freshwater seals in it and
they're pretty much here all year around.
Not sure if anyone knows how they really got in here.
It's possible they swam up the river,
but they don't seem to ever leave.
Man, dang it.
It's gonna be a little tricky today.
Found a seal.
It's kinda beached up over here.
I'll try to get close enough so I can shoot at it.
(gunshot)
Was low.
I'll give 'em a minute, see if they come back up.
This is my first seal hunt.
I've never really gone out by myself to hunt seals.
It is a little different than, like, bear hunting and
moose hunting 'cause you shoot it in the wrong spot,
you're never gonna get it again.
And it's a much smaller target.
So, I'm waiting for them to climb back up on to the rocks
so I can shoot 'em 'cause the water's so deep right here
that they'd just be gone if I shot 'em.
Sink straight to the bottom.
Think there's two of 'em out there, actually.
(gunshot)
JOEL: Bah.
Low again.
I shot twice and missed, and I think they're spooked now.
I don't think they're gonna come back up.
If they're coming out of the water here,
they're probably are up the lake more too.
Think I'll change locations.
It's good to know that they're out, up on the rocks now.
I thought it was too late in the year for them to be sun bathing.
Pretty much everything around here kinda
revolves around the salmon.
You know, I mean the people, me, the bears, the seals,
I mean, everything.
We wouldn't even have seals here if it wasn't for the salmon.
I'm, like, ten miles from home now.
It seems like the farther away I get,
the less seals there are.
The water's super high right now.
And a lot of the reefs I thought that they'd be
sitting on are completely covered up with water.
Think I'll head back towards the house and see if
I can't find some pike.
Think it'd be a good time to go do some fishing maybe.
Try to catch a few.
TERESA: I know that we cannot live without a spirituality
in our life,
because that's very much a part of
who we are as a native people.
And that's who I am.
TERESA: Stayed, look at that. It didn't move.
The foundations are still pretty much firm,
and you did a really good job you boys.
Look at that.
JOHN: My foundation is there.
It was intact.
It was strong and we were
amazed how it made it through that typhoon.
TERESA: You could see where the Weatherport was with this
fresh green, green around it.
When it moved, it must've lifted, and the wind just
carried it way across over there to the other side.
Typhoon Merbok really did a number in our fish camp.
It swept away our Weatherport and all the plywood that
we were going to build to finish our cabin.
Our dream of putting up that cabin washed away
in one night.
SONNA BOY: This is just devastating to see;
come here you know.
Like, I'm still speechless.
I don't know what to think of it, but it'll pass.
TERESA: But the optimistic part is old boy, we gonna rebuild.
That's what it's gotta take,
rebuilding and helping each other
and do it again.
Right old boy?
SONNA BOY: Uh-hmm. TERESA: Yeah.
TIG: I'm just a steppingstone of our culture and our traditions.
Just the same way my children are gonna be a steppingstone
of our culture and traditions.
Snow covered up our trail, boy.
TIG: Yeah.
I guess about the only thing we can do is
try and make it look like a trail was still there.
Take big steps, look like moose maybe.
EVAN: Huh.
TIG: Right now, I'm just kinda making a new trail for these
rabbits to use.
The trail that they were using is buried last night
in the fresh snow.
My snare's halfway buried too.
So, we're helping 'em out and trying to make
another trail for them.
I don't know if they'll use it or not but,
it's better than it was.
EVAN: Yeah, that looks pretty good.
TIG: At least they got something to go towards.
I hope.
Oh yeah, there's a trail back here.
EVAN: It's a rabbit trail? TIG: Yeah.
EVAN: Wow. Is it fresh, dad?
TIG: Yup. EVAN: Wow, that's cool.
TIG: Look like a trail to me.
We only eat rabbit maybe three, four times a winter,
and so, when we do eat a rabbit, you know,
the kids really look forward to it.
Little bit of a special occasion, you know.
It's not a meal that we eat every week.
We should use the axe and drop some willows.
Get these rabbits moving around.
Get some food down for them.
TIG: Their momma told 'em, I guess.
EVAN: Do they eat anything else?
TIG: Later in the winter, when they can't get these
nice fresh ones anymore, they just start eating the
barks on the trees.
No!
EVAN: Whoa!
TIG: Well, they gonna enjoy that stuff.
Hopefully, it'll get them moving around in this area.
They really like the tops.
See these tops are really soft for them, easy to eat.
This should get them moving, come in this area.
EVAN: Huh.
TIG: Clean that one the same way, you know,
pat that trail down with your glove.
EVAN: Okay.
Oh, wait what.
EVAN: Dad! TIG: Just pack it down.
EVAN: Look, there's one in there.
TIG: Oh, it worked. EVAN: Yes!
TIG: And look, it's hanging up.
You did it, boy. Wow, look at that.
Enaa Baasee'.
EVAN: Enaa Baasee'.
TIG: Nice white fur.
Nothing got to it, just as we planned.
EVAN: Uh-hmm.
TIG: For any animal that we take, that's what we wish for.
Wish for a nice fast death for them.
Perfect catch, my boy.
EVAN: Uh-huh. TIG: Good job.
Well, let's see if we can reset this.
EVAN: Dad? TIG: Huh?
TIG: It's cold. He's got no more life in him.
When something dies, the life in us is what keeps us warm.
Only zombies are cold.
TIG: Yup.
EVAN: It feels good to bring home a rabbit to my family
so they can eat.
EVAN: My dad said, if I trap a rabbit, I'll get a girlfriend.
TIG: All right, there was hardly any damage to that snare.
EVAN: Uh-hmm.
TIG: It's a pretty good method. I like it.
TIG: Deadly.
I'm pretty excited to see that my son is growing.
He's cultural learning, you know, all the different things
he's doing in life.
He's starting to become more and more successful.
TIG: Good job, my boy.
EVAN: Thank you.
DANIEL: When the water comes in, when the ice comes in,
you have to take action.
DANIELLE: Hey, it's a dolphin or something.
DANIEL: Porpoise?
DANIELLE: I just saw it jump.
DANIEL: Yeah, they're real fast.
Hard to get.
Faster than seals.
DANIELLE: It's staying in the same spot.
Oh, right there, right there!
DANIEL: Oh, right there, that's a porpoise!
Let's go to this other point over here just in case
he might come right into the beach.
Whatever opportunity we can get, we take.
That's how a subsistence lifestyle works.
DANIELLE: Okay. DANIEL: Let's go.
DANIELLE: They're staying in the same spot.
DANIEL: Ah, they're coming closer.
We'll sit and watch here for a little bit, huh?
They might come closer again.
DANIELLE: I see 'em again. Right in front of the green.
DANIEL: They're way at the edge of that green color now.
DANIELLE: Damn.
DANIEL: Yeah, they're not coming in, huh?
DANIELLE: I don't think so.
DANIEL: That was exciting.
DANIELLE: Yup.
DANIEL: First time we see 'em on the beach that close.
DANIELLE: Yeah. Real close.
We usually only see porpoise out boating.
That was a little exciting.
DANIEL: That's what hunting is, it wouldn't be called hunting.
We'll see what's down there.
DANIELLE: Beach comb little bit?
DANIEL: Yeah.
We're beach combing for some seafood, uh,
so we can eat with our meals, you know.
Some people cook 'em and some people eat 'em
just like that, raw.
DANIELLE: I don't know the native word for this one,
but these red ones with the tails on them,
they're called, Aghnaghuq.
The more I go out with my dad, I feel like I learn
not only things about hunting but our language.
I'm starting to learn a lot more than I used to know
living in the valley.
DANIEL: Hey. Winner.
DANIELLE: Look what I found. What is this called?
DANIELLE: Mamaghwaaq.
DANIEL: Some days you might not catch a seal, you know.
We can go beach combing for some seafood.
That's all we might get for the day.
DANIELLE: At least we're not going home empty-handed.
I like going out with you, dad.
DANIEL: Yeah, me too. I enjoyed it.
I enjoyed every minute of it.
JOEL: The more you live out here, the more you realize
you need to be traditional.
Or you have to revert to these traditional ways,
basically just trying to exist out here.
So, we only have pike in one place here as far as
I know and it's this little lake.
They swim up in there I think to spawn or something then
they get land locked.
So, you can only kinda catch them certain times a year.
I'm hoping they're still in there.
I didn't shoot a seal today, but at least figured out where
the seals where at so the next time I can go back out there.
Now I'll go do a little fishing and then see if
I can't catch some pike.
I haven't been up there in a couple years.
I'm hoping there's a couple pike, you know,
floating around in there.
Little lake back here is probably only
half a mile or less.
And this is actually the creek that drains it.
Hopefully, we'll get lucky today.
Most time, pike are like an invasive species,
but they seem to just stick to this lake.
They're like a dinosaur basically.
They're very boney.
They're very mean, and they seem to live forever.
They really are pretty good to eat, and pretty fun to catch.
I got a little guy, there we go.
Oh, that's not a bad size, dang.
Oh!
I almost had that guy in.
I think the hook wasn't set in his mouth very well and
he got away right as I was getting him on the beach.
Man, he wasn't a bad size either.
He was like a couple feet long.
I didn't even know they were that big in here.
Hopefully, I can get another one.
There we go.
Come on.
Yeah.
No!
JOEL: Ah.
I think my barbs are all worn off on my hook.
Yeah, they are.
Dang it.
Got an old crusty hook on here.
So, I'm changing my lures.
That last lure, the barbs are almost gone, so I think that's
why the pike kept getting off.
Hopefully, this does the trick.
I'm gonna keep going a little bit.
I've caught a couple, but they keep getting off.
I'll keep fishing till I get something.
I got one.
(grunts)
Oh, the sucker.
Woo!
I finally got one to the beach.
That's a meal right there.
He's not huge but
he's definitely a good size for out here.
All in all, I think the land's doing well.
The fish are coming back.
The bears are out pretty strong.
I think we have more than enough seals.
It's good that, you know, the circle of life is continuing
and pretty good circle.
TERESA: So, you guys can go ahead and go with your Ada.
JOHN: Wow, look at all of this debris.
What I lost in Typhoon Merbok is my Weatherport.
SONNA BOY: Can't believe it floated way out here.
JOHN: That must have been a really strong wind.
We found it about two or three miles out of my camp.
The whole back came down.
This is broken.
SONNA BOY: This side broke off as well.
JOHN: Broken too? SONNA BOY: Yup.
JOHN: Man.
Oh, jeez.
JOHN: Weatherport played an important part of our life.
It's my shelter. That's where I sleep, eat.
All of my family would gather around and come together.
Everything I own there, all my tools and everything,
were all messed up.
SONNA BOY: Even this food in here, stinks.
JOHN: Yeah.
I lost a lot of things like generators and radios,
binoculars and, uh, all of our food and everything.
SONNA BOY: Almost as if like it was a nightmare, you know?
JOHN: I have an empty, empty heart about that.
Kinda sad.
JOHN: Sonna Boy. SONNA BOY: Huh?
JOHN: Look at that. Can't forget it, okay?
Bring it back and dry it up and use it again.
SONNA BOY: The Weatherport gone means that, like,
home is gone, for a little bit.
I think that there is hope in the future for
maybe the next Weatherport.
The whole foundation was still intact.
We can take it apart and haul it back to camp.
Just hope for the best in the future.
JOHN: Let's give ourselves a little time to heal
and then we'll come back together as a family to
salvage what we need to salvage.
TERESA: We just loved that Weatherport because that was
where we all gathered, ate together, talked together.
We had that Weatherport for almost 20 years.
And it's not gonna go away.
We're going to rebuild and we're going to
get back together again.
DANIELLE: Well, this is from the recent typhoon?
DANIEL: Yup.
This is the boat I got when you were a couple months old.
DANIELLE: Damn.
DANIEL: Had a lot of memory with that boat.
DANIELLE: That typhoon affected a lot of the villages.
It was pretty bad.
That was our biggest typhoon, huh?
DANIEL: Yup.
DANIELLE: It wrecked quite a bit.
DANIEL: Some of them, uh, even lost their houses, too.
If the weather keeps, uh, what it's doing now, you know,
it's gonna take everything away.
These storms are getting bigger and more and more frequent.
It's concerning to see what it's changing in this world.
Hope this doesn't happen to anybody else.
Well, it's, uh, just a memory now, right?
JOHN: Any material things we lost; they can be replaced.
TERESA: We're all in this together.
Though we need to build back what we had lost.
JOHN: We have to continue to subsist from this land.
We have to keep going. Go forward.
Don't give up. Be strong.
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