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TIG: Everything in this world has got a spirit
in our tradition.
The land has got a spirit, the river's got a spirit,
all the animals got a spirit.
The raven was the creator in the beginning.
The bear, he's a powerful animal,
he does hear us, he does see us.
The wolverine is the chief of all the animals,
he was the boss.
We're all from the same country.
We're all connected.
EVAN: Dad? TIG: Huh?
EVAN: What do we do if we catch a wolverine?
TIG: Um, we work him up, do him as best as we can.
It's a really powerful animal in our culture and tradition.
The word for the wolverine in our Denaakk'e language
is doyonh.
This is ultimate respect when we're dealing with the doyonh.
My name is Steven Strassburg.
A lot of my friends call me Tig.
It started out when I was a small child.
I used to growl a lot.
And so they called me Tiger, that went to Tigger,
and that got shortened down to Tig.
Ever since as a young boy we've been taught how to survive
off of this land and thrive out here.
And it's all I know to teach my children.
My girlfriend Louise and I, we got seven children
aging from 4 months to 13 years old.
I'm able to sustain seven kids
because I've got the woods feeding me,
I've got the river feeding us.
♪ ♪
We got a very strong tribe. This is unforgiving country.
And our people have been able to thrive in this country
for thousands and thousands of years.
Oooh, you smell that, boy?
EVAN: Ugh, yeah.
TIG: Ooh, even the traps stink.
This stuff'll gag a maggot for sure, you know.
(Evan coughs)
Curl your toes up.
EVAN: My nose.
Ugh!
TIG: I've been working on my middle son, Evan, lately,
trying to get him to be able to catch his first wolverine.
Wintertime is typically the time we're gonna go out
and get our furs, when the hair is prime on them,
nice and thick, that'll keep us warm throughout the year.
Ohh! The stinker, the better.
♪ ♪
LOUISE: How you girls doin'?
HAZEL: Doing good.
LOUISE: It warmed up today to 50 below.
You girls want to do the rabbit snares right here?
HAZEL: Yeah. SOPHIE: Yeah.
AMIYA: Yeah.
LOUISE: Look! There might be some rabbit tracks
over here by this tree.
There's a good little spot where the rabbits have been sitting.
When the rabbits get caught,
this will close around their neck, like so.
My name is Louise Moses, I am 33 years old,
and I live in Allakaket, Alaska.
I am Iñupiat Eskimo and Athabascan.
I have seven kids with Steven.
(kids yelling, laughing)
Never quiet. (chuckles)
SOPHIE: A lot of tracks out here.
LOUISE: Lot of good sign, we might luck out, out here, huh?
SOPHIE: Uh-huh.
LOUISE: We're not having much luck yet
with birds and everything around here,
so we're gonna try for rabbit.
Make sure it's nice and tight around the stick,
'cause if we catch a rabbit, it'll be hopping along,
and this thing's got to be right up against the willow.
So, we want to stick it right over that trail right there.
SOPHIE: Okay.
LOUISE: It's important for us to all work together.
My boys are out trying to trap,
and I'm doing the same with the girls.
Help them provide food for the family.
JOEL: Try to fight Mother Nature,
it's probably gonna bite you in the end.
Everything seems to be a little harder out here.
♪ ♪
Today we're headed up the lake to, uh, Pile River.
My dad's old trapper's cabin's up there,
so we're gonna check it out.
♪ ♪
Right now is a good time of the year
to hunt lynx, foxes, beavers.
'Cause their fur's nice and thick,
and then they got the, they got some fat on 'em, too,
which is, is pretty good eatin'.
I'm coming up on the mouth of the Pile River.
It's actually like an offshoot.
I was trying to get up, up this little slough,
but it's all froze over already.
So we're gonna have to park down the beach.
♪ ♪
Come on!
So we made it to Pile River, or a slough of it anyways,
this kinda runs over here to the side and connects to the river.
But the river's, uh, it's starting to freeze right now,
you can't really get a boat up it.
It's pretty dangerous.
We're gonna walk up the slough
and see if I can find the start of this trail,
start cutting it out to the cabin.
Main goal is just to figure out what the cabin needs
for repairs and everything.
It would be nice to come up here and spend a week or so at a time
and just do some trapping.
♪ ♪
Bear tracks.
There's like fresh bear tracks here,
that's probably, maybe a day old.
I didn't bring a gun big enough for a bear,
but he's probably headed for the hills.
He could be hungry, too, which isn't good.
Hope we don't run into him.
A hungry, cold bear.
♪ ♪
I'm super glad Tracker's with me,
he lets you know when there's animals around,
especially bears.
I take him wherever I can.
♪ ♪
I kind of found the start of the trail, looks like,
and it's like super overgrown.
And then the snow fell and pushed all the trees over
and made it worse.
I guess that's what you get
when you only come up every six years.
(chainsaw revving)
♪ ♪
Living out here, it's pretty physical.
Just cutting this trail out, it's like a huge amount of work.
Everything gets so overgrown so fast.
That's why I'm cutting it out, though,
so next time it's not so hard.
♪ ♪
That was pretty rough.
I didn't realize the trail was so overgrown.
Ready, Tracker?
My dad's cabin's still probably a mile upriver.
I guess we'll just, uh, keep heading up.
♪ ♪
DANIEL: We the people in the village own this island.
All the freedom that you have, to me, it's everyday life.
♪ ♪
Four, eight.
Twelve.
So it'll be here.
I've been wanting to build a shed for a long time.
Our rides get pretty old fast out here.
They rust real fast.
The ocean spray.
Very important to have ATVs and snow machines out here.
They're transportation.
Agh!
CHRIS: We're working on getting the lumber for the garage,
you know, but lumber has to be flown in from out of town.
Got to wait for a month for one plane.
CHRIS: Yup.
DANIEL: Bring it home!
DANIEL: It might be a survival source at times
when the elements are pretty bad.
Let's do this!
♪ ♪
CHRIS: I've done some carpentry
but, you know, I'm still learning a lot more from my dad.
DANIEL: Nice warm day to do this, boys!
CHASE: Yup.
We're used to working in bad weather.
DANIEL: How much you want to bet?
Ah, 10 foot!
I told you.
CHASE: I didn't bet on anything.
(Daniel laughs)
DANIEL: I want to try to put the foundation in today
so it can be nice and solid.
DANIEL: Eh! Perfect!
Step by step, we're gonna build this garage.
(drilling)
DANIEL: Ah!
Leveled off. Call it quits. Take a break.
JODY: Indigenous people really have to learn to navigate
walking in two worlds.
Our traditional cultural way of life,
but then also modern way of life.
It's all about balance.
(chainsaw buzzing)
Paul Bunyan!
Come to mama.
Well, got this down.
JAMEY: Nice.
JODY: Today we are going to build a shed.
It's just gonna be a real rough cut,
just something to protect the firewood
and the tools from the snow and elements.
We've had a major drop in temperature.
Whoa, ninja skills.
We'll be definitely burning through more firewood.
When we have a woodshed, we'll be able to stockpile wood.
♪ ♪
JAMEY: Let's start building.
JODY: Sounds good.
Days are short.
We don't have much daylight to get work done.
We don't even see the sun in this area anymore.
I would say the pressure's on.
♪ ♪
(chainsaw revving)
JAMEY: The design of the woodshed is just something fast
that I could throw together.
We're just gonna throw it up real quick
before the heavy snow hits.
Just like Lincoln Logs, the weight will hold together.
Having something simple like this,
I don't have to haul lumber in, I don't have to pay for it.
It's on my property, so I just help myself to it.
I'll go in the back. Okay. DENALI: You go in the back.
JAMEY: I go in the back, this way.
DENALI: You go in the back. JAMEY: Yes.
I like to have Denali to work with,
somebody to talk to, you know, joke with, laugh,
how we tease one another, it's just our sense of humor.
Happy?
DENALI: No.
JAMEY: You happy? DENALI: No.
JAMEY: We're just messing around.
(chopping)
JODY: We're just throwing this together
from the logs on our land,
and, you know, it's just a kind of more sustainable way to live.
My parents built our house, our log home,
with the logs they harvested from our land.
Pretty much everything that my family had came from the land.
Looking good, you guys.
JAMEY: I'd say, uh, two more, two more rounds.
JODY: And then we'll have a nice jail for you.
JAMEY: How did you get out?
(laughs)
Yeah, I'm gonna have to make this a little more secure,
keep my wild Gwich'in in there.
JODY: The only way a Koyukon can keep a woman.
(Jamey chuckles)
JAMEY: Get back to work.
(laughs)
♪ ♪
TIG: We just pay full respect to everything out here.
And that's a good way to keep your luck.
Alright, here's the dangerous part, boy.
These Conibears, in my mind, my opinion,
this is the most dangerous trap I use right here.
It took me about two or three years
before I'd finally got the confidence
to go ahead and set one of these guys up.
Living this lifestyle, everything's a danger,
and everything's got to be a calculated risk out here.
You know, anything can get you messed up.
See?
You go through this one, down through this one,
you take it back up and you tie it to this one, boy.
EVAN: Okay.
TIG: You paying attention? EVAN: Yeah.
TIG: And then, it squeezes up like that, see?
Once you get it so far, you just grab it with your hand,
and get this safety set on there. Oh!
h! Ooh.?
EVAN: Yeah.
TIG: Danger, even that can hurt you right there.
For my sons, this is tough country.
There's nothing easy about it.
This is just a country we've been born into,
this is all we know.
When I first start trapping wolverine,
I set 15 different traps for him, and I couldn't catch him.
And I talked to your Grandpa Charlie,
he'd laugh at me.
He'd say, "Look, they say that first one
you're gonna really have a hard time catching,
but after you catch your first wolverine,
the animal will know, and it's gonna start getting easier."
Alright, now, you know, we let him sit and soak
for a couple days.
We'll come back and hopefully we'll have some luck.
DANIEL: I learned from my dad, the elders of the village,
to read the conditions the weather gives you.
♪ ♪
CHRIS: Go ahead.
Time to put the floor up, and get the walls up.
DANIEL: Start squaring it off.
Tape measure. Corner to corner.
Perfect.
Screw it on, before it moves.
DANIEL: Try to, uh, beat the weather here.
See how far we go.
CHASE: The sooner we get the floor done,
we can start building out the walls.
DANIEL: This way.
Blizzard warning!
DANIEL: Pain in the ass to work in these conditions.
DANIEL: This side came in good.
Almost there.
Yeah! Frame is up!
Now it just needs a ceiling.
Time to have some coffee.
Starting to look like a garage.
♪ ♪
JOEL: My dad talked to these elders
to find out where trails were,
and they'd give you a story about everything,
and tell you where stuff's at, and why it was there.
Storytelling is a big part of the land.
♪ ♪
I made it to the river, Pile River.
We're gonna make our way up towards my dad's old cabin.
We might be able to stay on the side of the river
now that it's all frozen, and there's overflow and everything,
but you break through here, though,
you're, uh, you're done for.
Hopefully the ice is thick enough to walk on,
but the thickness of the ice changes
because the water's moving,
so you don't know where it's thin and where it's thick.
In summertime, this is like
the most dangerous part of the river.
Kinda right here it changes directions.
So this becomes a big eddy,
and it'll suck you down, roll you around.
You know, when I was a kid, me and my parents,
I was like 12 years old, we were coming down the river
from our cabin in a boat,
we hit one of these sweeper trees,
and the current is so strong it flipped the boat over.
I just remember being like 10 feet under the water
trying to like dig my way out.
I didn't know how to swim.
♪ ♪
And I looked up, I could see two lights,
and someone grabbed me by the back of the jacket
and pulled me out onto the boat.
I looked around, there was no one around me.
We ended up getting back to the house and I asked my parents,
who pulled me out of the water?
And they like looked at each other, like, neither one of us,
we were on the other side of the boat.
Pretty sure an angel pulled me out of the water.
And now, here we are.
Back on the, uh, the river
with my first close encounter with death.
Sure won't be my last. Hopefully there's not one today.
Oh. Damn.
That is not very thick.
Like an inch.
♪ ♪
Come on, Tracker.
♪ ♪
(creaking) Oh!
JOEL: Oh, it's cracking.
Whew. It's too thin.
I hear cracking.
As soon as I stepped onto the edge of the ice,
I broke through, and it's, it's about an inch thick.
Might be able to scoot across here.
This is like the very minimum thickness.
Tracker, get out of here!
Get!
♪ ♪
Get, get, get!
(creaking)
Oh.
Ho ho ho!
The whole thing dropped.
Dang.
Hightail to the cabin, Tracker!
JAMEY: Older people always talked about hard times
would come if you're not prepared.
You could always survive off the land.
It's like a song in itself.
And it calls to you.
(drill whirring)
♪ ♪
JODY: Good. That's it?
JAMEY: That's it. JODY: Cool.
JAMEY: We just secured the, the top pieces.
Might get some high winds in the summer.
I'd just like to secure the top so it doesn't slide around.
Next is the door.
(whistles)
To make the door, I'm gonna need to rip two logs in half
so I have four halves.
I'll have one on the inside, one on the outside.
♪ ♪
Easy does it.
JODY: Bingo.
♪ ♪
JAMEY: How wide do we want this door frame?
Pretty wide, huh?
Here you go. Got it?
♪ ♪
Ready to cut the doorway opening.
So here we go.
(chainsaw revving)
JODY: I like this kind of work,
this beats being in an office 8:00 to 5:00.
Been there, done that, and this hands down beats that lifestyle.
♪ ♪
Woo-hoo.
Pretty much all we have left is the roof,
and then I can cut some notches and flatten out that part.
Pretty cool.
JAMEY: One...
JAMEY: Two. JODY: Two.
♪ ♪
LOUISE: Out here in the cold,
you just got to remember it doesn't last forever.
Hard times doesn't go on forever.
Nobody lives forever.
Nothing lasts forever.
It's just a change of seasons and how we handle it.
♪ ♪
TIG: It's been a few days,
me and Evan set this wolverine trap.
It's tradition for the men to be out here in the country,
out on the trapline.
My grandfather trapped it, my great grandfather trapped it,
my brother trapped it.
So, I'm feeling real hopeful today on this check.
♪ ♪
EVAN: Oh, this looks bad, what happened?
TIG: We missed him.
The bait's still in there,
no idea what the heck happened here, boy.
This trap is sprung.
How the hell did he do that?
He just got out of my country and left.
EVAN: Has that ever happened to you before?
TIG: No.
TIG: He's not gonna come with this set up in a tree like this.
He's trap-smart, you know, that's what they call it
when you miss an animal, and you know, he knows this set.
We're gonna have to try something different.
I'm trying to teach my boy how these guys think,
and at the same time, he's out here learning how we think.
Woo!
Chill-ay!
Chilly, chilly, chilly.
♪ ♪
LOUISE: My boys are out trying to trap
and I'm doing the same with the girls.
They're all learning to catch different game
and bring it home, and provide for the family.
You guys remember where your snares are at?
HAZEL: Yep!
There was probably one back there, and there.
LOUISE: Okay.
Me and my girls went out a few days ago,
we set four rabbit snares.
Today we're gonna go out and check them.
Hopefully have some luck.
Whose is the first one?
There's nothing!
HAZEL: Yup.
LOUISE: How many we got now? SOPHIE: Uh....
LOUISE: Three more? SOPHIE: Four.
LOUISE: Oh, no! Look at that!
SOPHIE: Oh, no! What happened to it?
LOUISE: I don't know.
Looks like we lost one, though. Maybe a lynx got into it?
AMIYA: Sophie, look!
AMIYA: A bunny, we catched one!
SOPHIE: (gasps) We caught a bunny!
LOUISE: What? Where do you see it?
AMIYA: Over there!
It's my rabbit trap!
LOUISE: Congratulations.
Amiya just spotted out the bunny rabbit that we just caught,
lucky little girl,
she's the one that caught it in her snare, too.
LOUISE: Okay. Let's see.
SOPHIE: Look, it's a white bunny.
LOUISE: Yeah.
You guys want to eat some rabbit soup?
SOPHIE: Yeah. AMIYA: Yeah.
LOUISE: Awesome.
AMIYA: If we get a rabbit, we get a rabbit stew.
LOUISE: Okay, you'll bring it home?
Dad's gonna be all excited.
It feels amazing to be able to go out with my girls
and bring home some meat ourselves.
♪ ♪
TIG: My boy, he's gonna learn
that you're gonna have to work at stuff,
you're gonna have to keep persisting,
try and try and try again until you have some luck.
You just got to make it look different, try different bait.
EVAN: Ah, that stinks. TIG: (laughs) Yeah!
EVAN: Hopefully we catch it someday.
TIG: We will. We're not gonna give up,
and we're gonna get you your first one.
It is a big honor to try and trap one of these,
even teaching my son out here in the woods.
It's a big honor.
Alright, hang on, boy.
EVAN: Okay, I am.
TIG: Another day, wolverine, we will see you again.
CHASE: I want to help this village.
Coming to each other more, help each other out more.
We can come to one as a community.
DANIEL: The winds are too strong for just the two of us
to put up the roof up without anything happening.
Call some friends and family members up.
We're gonna need some help.
Hey!
Hey, buddy.
WIYU: What's up?
DANIEL: The weather is gonna get worse.
It's gonna get colder.
The storms are gonna be more.
CHRIS: That's how we do it in the village,
we have all these people that we ask for help.
They could ask for help, I'll go help them.
♪ ♪
WIYU: This side? DANIEL: Yup!
DANIEL: That's how we do it out here.
Thank you.
WIYU: Anytime, man, anytime.
DANIEL: Yeah, thank you.
(laughter)
(drilling)
CHRIS: No way, it will not. WIYU: No.
DANIEL: Extreme weather, blizzard warning.
JOEL: Freedom is definitely a lot of work out here,
but it also gives you a sense of accomplishment, too,
when you build something out of nothing.
♪ ♪
It's a, uh, disaster.
It's way worse than I thought that was gonna be.
Hopefully, I can stay the night in it.
♪ ♪
Oh.
Dang.
Well, there's a woodstove, chimney might not be usable.
The windows are gone, the deck is gone.
Now what?
So the original plan was to see what the cabin needed
for repairs to make it stay-able.
Whoa.
But I don't think it's worth saving at this point.
Whatever was living in there scratched the back of that.
Pretty gross.
Squirrel or something.
That mushrooms in there?
♪ ♪
As a kid, we used to come up here for weekends and stuff
and go fishing, but I think those days are long gone.
I'm disappointed,
I thought it was in a little better shape than it is.
Yeah.
Good.
That one's, uh, not so good.
I don't really want to stay here for the night,
but I don't have a choice now
because it's too late to head back.
It's pretty much clean.
Well, as clean as it's gonna get.
I'm gonna cut this tree down for firewood.
(chainsaw revving)
Fire's like the most important thing
in a winter camping situation.
So we have wood for the night.
Quite a bit of work living out here,
especially if you want to go explore and do stuff
that's away from your house,
because of the weather and how cold it is.
♪ ♪
Yay-uh.
I'm gonna try to cover these windows with this cardboard
to keep out the cold.
Here's a big old pile of fluff the squirrel left me.
I'm gonna try to use it for insulation.
Hopefully, it doesn't blow tonight.
Living out here, you have to be willing to adapt.
There we go.
It ain't pretty.
Maybe it'll keep some heat in.
♪ ♪
It's probably not as warm and cozy as it was 30 years ago,
but it'll get me through the night, I think.
Not too shabby; or really, really shabby.
I thought maybe we could disassemble it
and then reassemble it somewhere else,
but too many of the logs are rotten at this point,
and it's just not even, not worth the effort.
We'll be warm tonight, Tracker.
JODY: Anytime I faced challenges in my life,
I have always looked to being on the land
and the values of our ancestors.
♪ ♪
The last couple days it was almost 40 below and super cold.
But today, it's actually warmer.
It's a good day to finish this up.
These rafters are looking pretty good, babe.
We're almost there.
JAMEY: See that top log angled,
it's not perfectly straight, it angled out,
so my measurements are off.
JODY: I mean, hand me the axe
and I could chop some out if you want.
JAMEY: Alright. That way it'll drop down a little bit more?
Sledgehammer?
JODY: Not giving up when faced with adversity or challenges
is really the takeaway from our ancestors.
♪ ♪
You want to test it?
JAMEY: Yeah. JODY: Oh, yeah.
JAMEY: Much better. JODY: Much better.
JAMEY: That's all it was. Here you go.
JODY: Yeah, women rule. No. (laughs)
JAMEY: I'm gonna cut this down.
This other, this one's not secured yet.
♪ ♪
(bleep)
JAMEY: Agh. JODY: Whoa, are you okay?
JAMEY: Yeah.
I get a bit of a rush, kinda get tunnel, tunnel vision,
and just slips and trips and forget about the hazards.
That's when you hurt yourself or hurt someone else.
JODY: When you're out here where there's no medical services
anywhere nearby, you definitely have to be extra careful
and cautious, but you also have to get stuff done.
So, do your best to be safe,
but there are always risks out here
no matter what you're doing.
JAMEY: It's windy, so you have to be careful,
'cause the wind will catch it, flip this, flip this tin up,
where you get sliced pretty good.
So hang on to it, keep a good grip on it.
JODY: I think we should stay upwind from it.
JAMEY: Yeah.
So we'll start on this side.
Just hand it straight up to me.
There you go.
How much overhang do I have down there, Denali?
DENALI: Yeah. JAMEY: Pretty good? You happy?
Okay, here.
JODY: It's such a blessing that the three of us
can work together so well and get this structure done.
It's more than just this little simple structure
of this log woodshed with materials from the land.
It's also the time that we get to work together as a family.
♪ ♪
Good job, babe. We did it.
JAMEY: Pat myself on the back.
JODY: So cheesy.
Well, I guess now we get to fill it up.
JAMEY: Get to it.
JODY: Let's do this.
We don't normally stockpile wood
because we didn't have any way to protect it
from getting buried in snow.
But now, you know, we'll have a couple of weeks' worth of wood
here at our camp with this woodshed.
And so now we're safe for the winter.
It just feels good.
I'm really happy with this, this is a nice shed.
It's gonna serve us really well.
And it's fun working together.
JAMEY: Yeah.
JODY: My brain, your strength, what a combo.
JAMEY: What? JODY: Oh!
(laughter)
JAMEY: Oh, boy. JODY: Oh, boy.
DANIEL: Life is hard out here,
helping each other out within the village.
We've been doing this for generations on end.
Can't survive here alone.
♪ ♪
WIYU: What's up?
DANIEL: I've got something for you, Wiyu.
DANIEL: How you like 'em? They look purty.
WIYU: They're decent.
DANIEL: 13 sheets, eh?
WIYU: 13 sheets?!
They're brand new.
The stores are nearly 150 bucks a sheet.
I'll do 10.
DANIEL: Might as well, eh?
WIYU: I think you could do it with 10.
As long as your cuts are straight and you don't screw up.
(both laugh)
WIYU: Two, four.
DANIEL: Bartering is very important among the village.
WIYU: You got help to unload? You'll be good?
DANIEL: Yeah, the boys are up there.
(hammering)
CHASE: Ah, man.
We got the first wall.
DANIEL: Okay.
Ready?
CHASE: Yeah.
DANIEL: Makes me feel happy.
Touches my heart to be with the boys all the time.
And teaching them, being in our culture
since they were very young.
DANIEL: They're becoming young men now.
Pretty soon they'll have their own household,
and I hope I, uh, passed enough knowledge
and experience to them.
DANIEL: We got all the walls and roof up,
gotta hang those doors, and I'm done.
Looks purty!
JOEL: It's very important to be self-reliant.
Living off the land is a good place to start.
♪ ♪
My dad's old hunting cabin,
it's, uh, kinda all around a loss.
Stayed the night and then head home.
Still a good trip up here.
Nice being up in the woods.
Oh, spruce hen!
♪ ♪
There he is.
♪ ♪
(gunshot)
♪ ♪
JOEL: There's another one.
♪ ♪
(gunshot)
Alright. Go grab 'em.
Tracker. Good dog.
Let's see if we can find 'em.
♪ ♪
Alright.
Nice full-grown bird.
Spruce hen soup for dinner!
♪ ♪
I'd say that I thrive living out here.
Most people think it's probably harsh
and you're just trying to survive, but...
I'd definitely say that I'm thriving living out here,
and enjoying it.
Tracker, drop it.
Good dog.
Alright.
This is what feels good and natural to me.
Wouldn't want to be anywhere else.
DANIEL: Yeah.
DANIEL: It's been an exciting week.
40-knot winds, blizzard, -2 degrees.
Finally have my own garage.
That feels real good.
DANIEL: Hey!
There it goes!
Garage is done!
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Piece by piece, day by day, hour by hour.
Worked out altogether.
Last day!
Testing, testing, one, two, three.
First Honda in the garage.
DANIEL: It's something me and my boys are gonna use
for a long time to come.
You know, it's not gonna be working
out in the storm anymore.
TIG: Say "gguh."
AMELIA: Gguh.
TIG: Yeah, that's how you say rabbit in Denaakk'e.
AMELIA: Gguh.
TIG: You know, me and my boy, we went out,
we didn't have no luck at all.
We came home, we found out my little girls and their mother
had gotten some food for us.
So, yeah, I thank the little girls for feeding us today.
Makes me very proud to come home
and see that my little girls are feeding me.
Go ahead and hack these feet off.
Gguh, gguh.
WESLEY: Gguh.
TIG: Take this opportunity, get all the kids around
and show them how easy it is to work up one of these rabbits.
It don't take a whole lot of time,
you know, 5, 10 minutes you can have this ready for the pot.
Mmmm.
Baasee', girls.
Look how good you're gonna feed us.
What do you say on the first day of the new month?
ALL: Rabbit rabbit, gguh gguh.
TIG: Yeah. And then you'll be good luck all month.
LOUISE: You guys gonna remember all this?
HAZEL: Yeah. TERRANCE: Yeah.
TIG: See, that's my main goal in life, in general,
is just continue to teach my children
to how to live this lifestyle.
Ooh!
Mmm!
Baasee', gguh.
GIRLS: Baasee', gguh.
TIG: At the end of the day that's all we got,
is our tradition and culture.
LOUISE: You're feeding us, Amiya.
TIG: Yeah, look at that, Amiya.
Me and this guy came home
with nothing but goose eggs in our pocket.
But you know, my little girls,
they go out, and you see now we're eating good.
We've got no 401k, we got no retirement plan.
All we pass on is our tradition,
our culture, and the land that we got.
Enaa baasee', Amiya.
ALL: Enaa baasee', Amiya.
LOUISE: Thank you!
TERRENCE: Enaa baasee'.
TIG: Mmm.
The land that I got, I don't own it,
I'm just taking care of it for my children.
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And once they get it, they take care of it for their children.
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