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(grunting)
DANIEL: The unity within the village,
having this culture.
Subsistence is our way of life.
For thousands of years,
we've been getting food from the Bering Sea.
CHRIS: Oh. We're looking for, uh,
walrus or bearded seal.
Hope we can find some.
CHRIS: Yeah.
DANIEL: The sea ice is very important to us out here.
DANIEL: Food is scarce right now, catching game,
and we want to try to bring home as much food as possible for the village.
(theme music playing)
JODY: The same blood that ran through my ancestors' veins,
runs through my veins, so I have this strength and
power to get through anything.
How's your feet? You good?
We're up in the high country of the White Mountains.
Country that I'm really familiar with.
Well we're up here where I usually, uh,
come to look for caribou,
but can't really see more than a couple hundred yards.
My son Denali and I have been caribou hunting together,
since he was just a tiny little kid.
There's no store in our village,
we need to fill our freezer,
especially with winter coming on.
The caribou are really central to our culture and
our food source and existence actually.
When we get meat, you know, we always share with the elders and
people that need it.
Huh.
That's not how we do things.
When I get a caribou I leave nothing.
It all gets packed out, so,
seeing this with just the head taken off?
I don't know it's kind of, it's hard to see stuff like this.
They left a lot of meat to waste,
but ravens ate good I guess.
The visibility is really low.
You cold?
DENALI: No.
JODY: Whiteouts can be extremely dangerous because
everything kinda looks the same.
Getting disoriented out here in these kinda elements,
there's very little room for error.
It's really hard to know where you're at and
find it back to where you started at.
But when I'm out here I always feel my ancestors' presence.
My people have hunted this herd of caribou for millennia.
Are you cold?
DENALI: Hmm. JODY: You okay?
DENALI: Yeah.
JODY: When my kids and I are out on the land I always remind
them that they're walking in the footsteps of our ancestors
and that they're here with us.
That will always be a grounding force.
(gusting winds)
Woo.
This wind is definitely really brutal.
I'm just glassing that mountain over there,
I don't see anything moving.
The caribou are probably hunkered down somewhere,
but you never know, they could pop up.
Caribou are always on the move.
It's a lot different than hunting moose.
There'll be nothing and then next thing you know,
ten minutes later there's a big herd coming through.
And so I guess we'll just maybe walk a little bit more.
The caribou are probably in a lower elevation so we're gonna
go where there's less wind and look around there.
Keep your eyes peeled.
They're always on the move.
JOEL: There's no one to rely on,
there's no one to go to help to.
It's just you and Mother Nature, and, you know,
I want to live life on my own terms.
That's why I live out here.
All right, Anzlie.
You ready to target practice?
ANZLIE: Yeah. JACQUELINE: Yeah?
You're gonna do good.
JOEL: I'll probably shoot from out here.
JACQUELINE: You got the chalk in your pocket?
ANZLIE: I think so.
JACQUELINE: Today we're going to get Anzlie ready to go on a
spruce hen hunt with us, and she's never shot a gun before.
We'll be happy if we get some spruce hen,
but the main goal is just to have Anzlie experience this
for the first time.
Hunting is a key to subsistence lifestyle and survival out here,
so I'm hoping that she has an interest in it.
JOEL: Put a little dot right in the middle.
There you go, yeah!
First rule, never point a gun at anything you don't want to shoot.
So try to keep it pointed at the ground or up in the air,
where that bullet's not gonna hit anything, okay?
ANZLIE: Yeah.
JOEL: Hunting's not something you just pick up overnight.
The weapon safety is definitely the first part of this,
and most important.
You ready to shoot?
ANZLIE: Yeah. JOEL: Okay.
Well we're gonna get in our shooting stance first, okay?
You're gonna lay down.
And then you look through the scope,
and you'll see an "X" in there.
Right where you wanna hit on the target.
ANZLIE: Okay. JOEL: You see the X?
ANZLIE: I see it. JOEL: Okay.
Don't put your finger on the trigger yet.
You want me to shoot first?
ANZLIE: Yeah. JOEL: And then you can try it?
ANZLIE: Yeah. JOEL: Okay.
Hopefully we can kind of get her over her fears,
she'll take a couple shots.
Her just trying, I think, is the biggest step right now.
JACQUELINE: Watch what he does.
(gunshot)
JOEL: Like that. JACQUELINE: See where it went?
ANZLIE: Yes. JOEL: See? Wanna shoot it?
ANZLIE: Yeah. JOEL: Okay.
Move your hand up a little bit.
Okay, up more.
Is it on the target you wanna hit?
ANZLIE: Down. JOEL: That?
ANZLIE: Now up far. JOEL: Huh, up?
ANZLIE: Yeah, up.
Down, down.
The middle, huh, this way.
Oh, there!
(gunshot)
JOEL: Oh, you got it! JACQUELINE: Good job!
Put it on safety.
JOEL: Ah, see! JACQUELINE: Put it on safety.
JOEL: Put it on safety. JACQUELINE: Let's go look!
(laughs)
Look, that's you!
You did it babe, good job!
Hunting is just a skill that she's gonna need to know and learn,
so she can become comfortable with it as she gets older,
and know how to harvest animals,
and to be self-sufficient.
Will you help us look for some spruce hen?
ANZLIE: Yeah. JACQUELINE: Yeah?
Okay, let's do that.
JOEL: C'mon.
(laughs)
JACQUELINE: Let's go.
MARVIN: We still harvest off the land,
but the native ways are dying off because of lack of the knowledge.
Good morning there, Glyn!
Ready for this excursion, buddy?
GLYNDARIL: Oh, I'm ready.
Man, I haven't had ptarmigan in oh, what,
I think the first year I got here?
MARVIN: Well, that's quite a spat.
GLYNDARIL: Oh that, what was it, cream of mushrooms stew with
the ptarmigan in there?
Oh, it was so good.
MARVIN: Oh, man, that's...
GLYNDARIL: Can't wait to have some of that.
MARVIN: I hope we get some.
We're gonna do a little ptarmigan huntin',
I'm gonna show Glyn where to go.
I'm all about teaching the way of life and the way I grew up,
to make his life a little easier.
All right buddy, here we go.
You ready?
GLYNDARIL: Being from Los Angeles,
and not necessarily the best parts, to come out here,
living off the land, learning how to, uh,
subsistence hunt, as the natives have done it.
Things that have never even been a thought in my mind.
And I want to continue to learn how to do more and
provide for my family.
(singing in native language)
MARVIN: All right.
(singing in native language)
MARVIN: Okay, buddy, you ready?
I got the pack for the birds.
GLYNDARIL: All right, let's rock and roll.
(singing in native language)
MARVIN: It's that time of the year that, um,
the birds are turning white.
It is the best time to hunt right now because there's
no blending in from the ground, as you can see it's all brown
with dead grass.
GLYNDARIL: Right there. MARVIN: Yeah, right there... GLYNDARIL: White ptarmigan.
MARVIN: Is the ptarmigan right there, Glyn.
Right there's ptarmigan, you just find a spot you can
rest on, find a good spot.
There he is, he's just, he's gonna sit there.
(gunshot)
MARVIN: Just down here?
Okay.
I don't know where they went.
Maybe I would watch and see where they go.
GLYNDARIL: Yeah, it looked like they flew kinda towards that way, I didn't...
GLYNDARIL: Oh, right there, right there!
MARVIN: Let's come out the wind Glyn, and you can shoot.
(gun clicks)
(gunshot)
GLYNDARIL: To the left? All right.
(gunshot)
MARVIN: There you go, you got one.
GLYNDARIL: Oh! MARVIN: You got one, Glyn.
Knowing Glyn for the 12 years that he's been here in our village,
he's coming a long way from living in the city.
Glyn is adamant and open to me teaching him.
There you go, Glyn.
Did you rip his chest out?
GLYNDARIL: Oh, yeah, got half of it.
Looks like we can probably get maybe half to a...
MARVIN: And that's the meat. GLYNDARIL: That's the meat.
MARVIN: Yeah, that's the...
GLYNDARIL: Hopefully I can salvage some of you,
you're my first one.
The first ptarmigan I've ever shot.
Living here it's a learning experience.
I do not know everything.
About living here, I know next to nothing.
But the joys that I get to have of working with my hands
and knowing that I am providing for my family.
All I can say is it's freedom.
Yeah, now let's go get some more.
MARVIN: There you go buddy. Cool, I got it.
You got your first bird.
JOEL: Harvesting animals is definitely the main key
to survival out here.
If you can't hunt, you don't eat, and then you die.
JACQUELINE: Your first hunt.
Are you excited?
ANZLIE: Yeah.
JACQUELINE: Ready to see some spruce hen?
ANZLIE: Yeah.
JOEL: Okay, hopefully we'll see 'em sittin on the ground,
but they might be in the trees.
You know what a spruce tree is?
ANZLIE: Uhh...
JOEL: Like these green ones, see this is a spruce tree.
The spruce hen eat these little green needles on there.
ANZLIE: What do they look like?
JACQUELINE: You know what they look like.
JOEL: They look like little chickens, kinda.
JACQUELINE: They're like brown little chickens.
JOEL: Spruce hen are a part of the grouse family
and they're, uh, one of, uh,
the main animals we eat in the winter time.
I think it's important for Anzlie to start learning how to hunt now.
You have to be able to hunt your own game
'cause you gotta eat somethin', and, uh,
there's usually plenty of animals out here.
Uh-oh.
JACQUELINE: Oh my goodness.
Ah!
What we're gonna do?
ANZLIE: I don't know.
JACQUELINE: How are we gonna get across that?
ANZLIE: Maybe make a bridge. JACQUELINE: Maybe make a bridge?
JOEL: Uh, make a bridge? JACQUELINE: Hey, careful.
You don't know how...
JOEL: Don't get wet.
JACQUELINE: You don't wanna fall in, Anzlie.
JOEL: Oh, look. There's a log up there.
See that?
ANZLIE: Oh, yeah. JOEL: Yeah.
JACQUELINE: Perfect.
JOEL: Maybe we could walk across that?
ANZLIE: Yeah.
JOEL: Step on this, Anzlie.
There you go.
Oh, that log doesn't really go all the way across the river.
JACQUELINE: Oh, it must just not be frozen because there's
just more water flowing through it now.
Anzlie babe, we can't walk through the water and
I don't want you to fall because if you get wet this time of year,
you'll be so cold and you can get hypothermia.
We're not anywhere close to where we can have a change of clothes or
get help right now.
So I really need you to pay attention.
And hold dad's hand while we're crossing, okay?
JOEL: All right. You guys think you can get on a little mound right there?
JACQUELINE: Yeah.
JOEL: And then I'll help you across.
Uh, it's pretty sketchy going across this, this log.
I'm not sure.
JACQUELINE: Was it slippery?
JOEL: Yeah.
Oh, it looks like you can walk up the thing right there.
Well, yeah, get down to here and then we'll reassess right there, but.
JACQUELINE: Okay.
JOEL: If you can get to that little island,
I'll hop her across and then try to get her to
the other side of the log somehow.
JACQUELINE: Sounds good.
There.
So this time, while Anzlie is out looking for spruce hen with us,
it's different than other times.
Normally, you know, she's just kind of there and observing.
JOEL: Yeah, I think we just walk across up here.
JACQUELINE: But now we're identifying different trees and
she's learning safety along the way about hunting and
also about staying warm and not wet.
(grunts)
JACQUELINE: She's learning a lot.
That's important.
Ready, one, two, three.
(grunts)
JOEL: Come on.
(screams)
(laughs)
(grunts)
JACQUELINE: Oh, well, this is much better than that log.
JOEL: Yeah, we would've, someone would've gotten wet for sure.
JACQUELINE: Someone, yeah. I would've fallen in.
JOEL: No birds yet, huh? JACQUELINE: No.
JOEL: Oh, look at that. ANZLIE: What?
JOEL: Something ate a spruce hen right there.
JACQUELINE: Hopefully it wasn't the last one of the woods.
JOEL: I bet there's more around, there's usually is.
JACQUELINE: They're normally together.
JOEL: Yeah. I'll go walk around the woods and
you guys just hang out for a minute.
JACQUELINE: Okay, that sounds good.
JOEL: Uh, it's gonna be too much for Anzlie to walk through the woods.
JACQUELINE: Yeah, there's a lot of trees and branches.
Okay, we'll stay here.
JOEL: All right, wish me luck.
JACQUELINE: Good luck.
JOEL: We're kinda showing Anzlie the basics of, uh,
spruce hen huntin'.
You know, how to find 'em, what to look for, that kinda stuff.
So it's kinda important I get a couple birds so I can, uh,
show her how to, you know, how to process the bird after you get it.
Oh yeah.
Looks like something got a rabbit right here.
Probably landed or took off, little bit of rabbit fur,
little bunny foo-foo did not make it.
Yeah, you never know what you'll find out here.
Yeah, it's like a puzzle, you know?
You gotta figure out what ate what, what came from where, and, yeah,
I'll be sure to tell Anzlie about this when I,
when I get back to her.
She'll be super excited.
(laughs)
(gun clicks)
(gunshot)
JOEL: All right, gonna go grab it.
Oh, yeah. Right in the head.
(gunshot)
JOEL: Phew.
Got another one.
All right, pretty good.
I got a couple birds, think I'll take 'em back to the girls and
cook up a little spruce hen soup for dinner.
JODY: When I'm out on the land I feel a lot more connected to my ancestors.
Grounded in, you know, these values and this way of life.
(gusting winds)
JODY: Are you warm?
(sighs)
So much nicer down here out of the wind on that summit, huh?
DENALI: Yep.
JODY: So up in the high mountains,
there's a big wind storm and it was just really brutal.
The visibility was really poor and
obviously no caribou up there.
The caribou are probably in the trees where there's less wind
and extreme weather.
They're like us.
Who'd wanna be hanging out up in that country?
Where it's storming?
I actually see a bunch of caribou tracks on that hill
over there like they're crossing.
Like this is where the caribou are moving through.
We're gonna hike down in there and just keep movin' and, uh,
see if we find anything.
Growing up, hunting this caribou herd for so many years,
I kind of am a little more familiar with their migration patterns,
of how they think and move.
You know, you always just kinda go with what the experience brings you,
what nature brings you, what reveals itself.
Just being ready and being open.
Just rolling with the punches, and just to never give up.
How are you feeling?
DENALI: I'm good. JODY: It's getting dark.
It'll be dark soon; we're gonna be working into the night...
CHRIS: It's important for me to, uh,
carry on this experience that I learned from my dad,
what he learned from his grandparents.
No other way we could live.
CHRIS: Hope we get a walrus or a bearded seal.
CHASE: Everything's different.
You never know what you're gonna see.
DANIEL: Where's all the game? CHRIS: I don't know.
DANIEL: Young ice, thickening up.
CHRIS: All right. DANIEL: Hooah!
(gun clicks)
(gunshot)
(gunshots)
DANIEL: Holy cow.
(laughter)
(laughs)
(laughter)
DANIEL: We're, uh, fortunate to have them around.
CHRIS: Oh!
(laughter)
GLYNDARIL: Here, you have to know how to do things yourself.
'Cause you're not always gonna be able to be dependent on other people.
MARVIN: Move real slow, Glyn.
They're not gonna be moving and they're very hard to see.
MARVIN: I'm surprised we didn't see no deer out here today.
GLYNDARIL: Yeah, that's a surprise.
Oh, over here, over here.
MARVIN: Oh, right there, yeah, Glyn.
Yeah, right there. Oh, oh!
GLYNDARIL: Hey, hey, hey, don't move, don't move.
(gunshot)
MARVIN: Got him, Glyn, yeah!
Oh!
Yeah, you got two, Glyn, look at that!
Yeah!
You couldn't even tell that they were side by side.
What a cool catch.
Good job there, man,
there you go.
GLYNDARIL: Hoo! Can't believe I did that.
Two birds with one shot.
Now I've got food from our personal grocery store.
GLYNDARIL: Oh, can we get it?
That's a buck, he's just staring at us.
MARVIN: That is a buck.
We don't have the right gun there for that,
the caliber's too small and I don't wanna wound it and
run all over the countryside to try to get it.
GLYNDARIL: You know what?
I'll go switch the guns out and, uh, go from ptarmigan to deer.
MARVIN: I'll keep an eye on it.
GLYNDARIL: Okay, I'll be right back.
MARVIN: Me helping him learn what I was taught,
brings back a lot of good memories of my dad.
There was not one time in my life that my dad said
we would not make it because he was a very good provider and
a very good teacher.
And I feel very honored that I could pass on some knowledge to,
to younger generation.
GLYNDARIL: Hey, Unc.
MARVIN: You know, I don't bring this up to nobody.
You know, Glyn, this is what I used to do with my dad.
You know, be happy to show you how to, how to sneak up on them.
GLYNDARIL: You lead, you lead and I'll follow.
MARVIN: Right there it is, Glyn. GLYNDARIL: Oh, yeah.
MARVIN: You wanna crawl right over there and we'll go up there, okay?
Come on.
Gotta go right up in there, buddy.
Turn sideways and shoot right in the neck.
(gun clicks)
Take him, Glyn. Take him.
(gunshot)
MARVIN: Load her up, Glyn. Come on, load her up.
(gun clicks)
There you go.
It's right on top of the mountain.
Wait, it's gonna come out in the open.
It's gonna come out, wait.
Go ahead, take him!
(gunshot)
There you go!
Yeah, there you go, buddy, you got him!
There you go! Good job.
Woo!
GLYNDARIL: Two shots.
(sighs)
MARVIN: Are you gasping?
And we still gotta go up there, buddy!
GLYNDARIL: Man, but that's a happy go up there,
now I know I'm going up there to get something!
(laughs)
(sighs)
MARVIN: Teaching Glyn something that I was taught,
my dad would say, you know, "I've taught you well."
Good job, Glyn.
Good job.
GLYNDARIL: I think to the left of the alders.
(grunts)
MARVIN: Oh, there it is right there.
GLYNDARIL: Yeah! MARVIN: You go, buddy.
(laughs)
There you go, Glyn.
You got a buck there.
Very big deer, very big.
GLYNDARIL: Thank you for your offering, big man.
MARVIN: Cool like that, Glyn. I see you got some fat on it.
GLYNDARIL: Oh, yeah.
MARVIN: And this is what we get for just how many here anyway.
I'm happy.
So now you know how, and the way to come up on deer, buddy.
GLYNDARIL: Oh, my wife is gonna love this.
When I get home, I'm gonna tell my wife and kids,
"Hey, me and Unc, we went out, we got ptarmigan,
but dad also got a deer."
Yes, it's gonna be feast time.
(laughs)
GLYNDARIL: I've never learned how, I just.
MARVIN: Would you like me to show you?
GLYNDARIL: Yeah, sure, I'm always game.
MARVIN: Okay, I'll show ya.
This is how I learned. So you see that?
GLYNDARIL: Oh, yeah.
MARVIN: So I just reach in right there, you just cut this right here.
It should come right out.
See how the intestines move?
GLYNDARIL: Yeah.
MARVIN: Now we'll just break all the stuff free.
There you go, there you go.
Let's turn her sideways.
And it should pull right on the side right there.
There you go, buddy.
Came right out, you see it?
It pulled right out of the hole.
There you go.
GLYNDARIL: I'm so thankful that my Unc took me out today.
Marvin showed me more things living out here and
what this life is about, than I've learned from most anyone.
He's a leader, he's a person that, uh,
he wants to teach everybody and help everyone.
He does his best to give it his all, whatever he's doing.
He is a person who wants nothing but the best for this village.
Just let me say, Unc, thank you.
You have no idea what you did for this,
this kid from Compton, you have no idea.
It's an honor and a privilege to have like a, uh,
you're like a good uncle, you're that special uncle.
MARVIN: Well, thank you, Glyn. Good job, buddy.
GLYNDARIL: Thank you.
GLYNDARIL: There was no deer roaming around in Los Angeles.
DANIEL: I don't think we'll lose any traditional values
been taught to us time immemorial.
Pass it down to the next generation.
DANIEL: I'm looking for, uh, seafood
that wash in while it's, uh, low tide.
Something to eat with, uh, our dinner.
In our village, we collect our food from the sea.
Food is scarce out here, you gotta be resourceful.
DANIEL: Everybody loves sea vegetables in my family.
Yeah!
Whatever the weather gives you, you take.
DANIEL: Along the beach, I found a little porpoise.
DANIEL: She was almost crying.
DANIEL: It's humbling moment.
I can still remember it like it was yesterday,
and it's still beautiful to this day.
DANIEL: Early bird gets the most.
JOEL: Freedom is definitely a lot of work out here but
I enjoy that, and it also gives you a sense of accomplishment.
JACQUELINE: Dad's gonna kinda walk you through what we're gonna do.
JOEL: You ready?
Gonna make a little cut.
ANZLIE: Then I'll, I'll, can you cut the leg off?
JACQUELINE: It's important for her to see, you know,
this is how we get our food.
Look at all the feathers going everywhere.
ANZLIE: It's a bird party. JACQUELINE: A bird party.
JOEL: Ah.
That's pretty much all the meat right there.
ANZLIE: What's that? One of the wings?
JOEL: Mm-hmm.
All those pine needles he was eating, see that?
JACQUELINE: He's eating the needles,
that's why they're in those, um, spruce trees.
That's why they call them spruce hens.
JOEL: Yeah, gonna cut the skin off here.
Gonna cut his little leg off now.
Looks like I'm taking his pants off.
(laughs)
Pretty funny, huh? Chicken foot?
JACQUELINE: Do you want to try it?
ANZLIE: No. JOEL: No?
Anzlie is definitely a very strong-willed child.
Like she's just gonna do what she wants to do,
once she makes her mind up.
JACQUELINE: Do you see the heart?
JOEL: That's good. We can eat the heart.
ANZLIE: I'm not going to eat it.
JOEL: The heart's good, it's just a muscle like.
ANZLIE: Throw it in the water.
JOEL: The most important value I would like to instill
in Anzlie is just really being self-sufficient, self-reliant.
All right, that's it.
This is all the guts.
We don't eat the guts, right?
ANZLIE: Throw it in the water.
JOEL: Bye! Oh! Stuck to my glove!
(laughs)
JACQUELINE: One bird down.
JODY: Any time I face challenges in my life,
I have always looked to being on the land and
the values of our ancestors.
JODY: We're not really seeing much,
but I'm seeing a lot of caribou tracks around.
They're pretty fresh.
Caribou are continually migrating through
this little valley here.
Getting meat for the winter will sustain our family for a long time.
JODY: Yeah.
You wanna test it with your bun, with your rubber boots first?
Okay.
I have mukluks so, if I fall through, it's not so good.
We don't hunt for sport or for pleasure.
Really, we hunt because it's our way of life.
It's feeding our families and our community.
Our way of life has always been sustainable 'cause
we lived in balance with our surroundings.
Look, there's a little herd.
Okay.
♪ ♪
(gunshot)
JODY: It dropped.
I'm very thankful.
JODY: We need to get moving.
♪ ♪
Creator blessed us with a caribou.
So, I'm gonna get to work.
Aim it that way, aim the head lookin that way.
Yeah.
We aim the head of the animal in the direction
we're taking the meat to feed the people.
DENALI: Came right off, look.
JODY: Caribou this size, feed us for a few months.
This one, we're gonna definitely be sharing with some elders.
One of the beautiful things about our people is sharing
is a big part of our culture.
The kidney has lots of good fat around it,
so that's like, Indians' favorite.
DENALI: Yup.
JODY: Pretty good piece, it's like a delicacy.
Native people love the kidney, specially the grandmas.
What's your favorite part Denali?
DENALI: Uh, nose or tongue.
JODY: We got the second hindquarter off.
There we go.
Because of our culture and our way of life, Denali,
he knows that he has a family and a community
and responsibility as a young warrior.
DENALI: If you carry one or two legs, I'll take everything else out.
JODY: Sounds like a good plan, babe.
DENALI: All right.
JODY: I'm putting this skin and all the meat and
everything to good use.
You got all the little leg pieces, babe?
DENALI: Mm-hmm.
JODY: To see when we get meat and do it in a good way,
have this relationship with the land and the animals,
like what that builds in the character of my children is
really powerful and I think that it'll benefit them their whole life.
JACQUELINE: You like it? JOEL: It's amazing.
JACQUELINE: Yeah, what a day, huh?
JOEL: Mm-hmm.
JACQUELINE: We did it good, I'm really proud of you, Anzlie.
Learning everything that,
that you need to know about hunting 101, right?
JOEL: Mm-hmm. JACQUELINE: Started with...
JOEL: Target practice. JACQUELINE: Target practice.
JOEL: Shot the gun. JACQUELINE: Mm-hmm. Good times.
JOEL: Learned all the parts of the gun.
JACQUELINE: Safety.
JOEL: Learn the weapon safety rules.
JACQUELINE: And then, we went on the trail and
looked for the signs of spruce hens.
Dad got two spruce hen, that was great, huh?
And then, you even got to help process the meat, right?
Wow, it's really good. You sure you don't wanna try it?
ANZLIE: No.
JACQUELINE: Do you not want to try it because you saw the bird
being processed and like cut up?
ANZLIE: Yeah. JACQUELINE: Yeah?
You know that's how all of our meat,
that's the process through all of the meat that we eat.
ANZLIE: Chicken wings? JACQUELINE: Chicken wings?
Yeah.
I like it we can, when we can all do things like this.
JOEL: Yeah.
JACQUELINE: And it makes me feel good.
You know, to know that you can provide food like this,
and go and get it and use the land like that.
I think it's really important that Anzlie keeps, you know,
going with us, and after this I think, then it, what,
what do you think would be?
JOEL: Moose hunting.
(laughter)
JACQUELINE: Big. JOEL: Wanna go moose hunting?
JACQUELINE: Big advancement from spruce hen.
What do you think would be the next step after spruce hen hunting?
ANZLIE: Worm. JACQUELINE: Worm?
JOEL: Worm?
We'll get some worms to go fishing.
JACQUELINE: Yeah, we can do that.
JOEL: Mm-hmm. ANZLIE: Turtle.
JACQUELINE: Turtle? JOEL: Turtle hunting?
JACQUELINE: We don't have turtles.
JOEL: Oh.
Never gone turtle hunting before.
(laughter)
JACQUELINE: Turtle hunting.
GLYNDARIL: A nice slow-cooked deer roast.
MARVIN: Oh, man.
No wonder that's what I smell.
JAIRUS: If I go hunting, I'm gonna get the king.
I'm gonna get the king deer.
MARVIN: You're gonna get the king deer?
JAIRUS: Mm-hmm. MARVIN: Is that the big buck?
JAIRUS: Uh, yes.
MARVIN: Pretty soon, you're gonna be over there with your dad.
Your dad is gonna take you hunting.
GLYNDARIL: I'll teach y'all guys how to gut a deer,
just like Uncle Marvin taught me.
My way of life living here, compared to living in the city,
is immensely better.
We all know what's going on in the world now.
My oldest son saying, "Hey, I want to get a toy gun,"
as compared to me in my childhood I wasn't allowed to even
play with any toy guns because they looked too much like real
and people were getting shot who look like me.
I don't have that here.
My kids, they're allowed to just be kids and play around.
People can't quantify that in wealth.
I wouldn't want to live in any other place.
MARVIN: All right.
Well, Glyn, I have to thank you for, um, coming along
on this trip that we did today.
And, you know, it shows that you are very capable of
fulfilling that mission.
I'm happy, buddy, you made my day.
GLYNDARIL: Thank you too, Unc, thank you.
(gusting winds)
DANIEL: Hi, sista.
DANIEL: Whatever we get out here,
we share with family members and people that don't hunt
all that much like the elders.
My mother-in-law, my father-in-law loves birds,
so they'll have a couple meals out of them.
DANIEL: Makes me happy that we share with all the other people.
It's the whole village,
this culture, this subsistence way of lifestyle.
DANIEL: It's our tradition to feed our community.
We, uh, help each other out in our village here.
You know, that's the way it's been generation to generation.
(laughter)
DANIEL: We share with all the other people.
Passing all that knowledge and experience to the next generation is, uh,
one of the most important things you can do in life out here.
It's a way of life and I want to teach that to my boys.
And hopefully, they'll do the same with their kids.
MICHAEL: They've been providing us food, all the boy.
All of these years.
CHRIS: Bye, love you. BOTH: Bye!
DEBORAH: Bye, you!
DANIEL: I'm a provider!
That's the way we live out here.
We've been living like this for thousands of years,
maybe even longer.
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