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JAMEY: Well, we're getting ready to go ice fishing downriver.
Get the Sno-go warmed up and head out.
JODY: Don't get tangled!
Here, lie down.
JAMEY: Looks like it's gonna be a nice day.
Sun, sun out, and it warmed up quite a bit.
It's about 30 below right now,
so better than 60, that's for sure.
JODY: There you go, no chewing.
We are craving some fish,
and sometimes a craving is because your body
needs that nutrition.
Parker, no chewing!
Watch Parker!
Mushing out of our camp here to get onto the Yukon River is
always a little treacherous,
it's a little bit of an adrenaline rush.
All right!
Go.
All right!
(barking)
JODY: Woah!
No, Wendy, no!
I can't get this.
Hurry, babe, please!
JAMEY: Here, go ahead. JODY: I'm trying.
That's what I've been doing this whole time.
JAMEY: Hold on, babe, hold on.
Okay, babe, go ahead.
(barking)
You got it?
JODY: Okay, babe.
Watch out, watch out!
JAMEY: It's difficult managing eight dogs with one person,
especially if your, your hook is tangled up,
you got no way to stop them.
But it seems like she's doing good right now,
she's moving now.
Well, we better get going.
TIG: When I die, I don't want to die without knowledge
that I got in my head.
It's just part of our culture to constantly be teaching our
children how to be one with the land.
All right, boys, let's grab some birch from right here.
We gotta get some beaver sets.
Your Grandma-ma called me up,
and she said she want beaver meat.
I said, "Ma, that's the toughest one for me to catch."
But I'll try.
We gotta keep Grandma-ma happy, right?
TERRANCE: Yeah.
TIG: Beaver's one of the elder's absolute favorite
food out here.
Woo!
They're not able to come out here and do
this type of work anymore,
so it's very important for us young men to come out
and do this hard work.
This isn't easy, easy work.
You guys think it's easy?
EVAN: No.
TIG: Doing good, boys, doing good.
TERRANCE: I gotta really pay attention to my dad.
He's, he's a really good teacher.
TIG: How do you guys say beaver in Denaakk'e?
TERRANCE: I forgot.
TIG: You don't know how to say beaver in Denaakk'e?
TERRANCE: I did. TIG: That's our own language. TERRANCE: I just forgot.
TIG: It's....
Noye'e.
It's very important to teach my boys our Athabascan culture.
Our language is dying.
Go ahead, you guys, scoop that ice out.
We got a full day ahead of us.
More houses we set, the more luck we'll have.
Teaching the young ones how to come out into the woods and
live this type of lifestyle.
Show 'em that it's not easy work, it's hard work.
Take your time.
The type of stuff we've been teaching them
out here in the woods,
this can't be taught in any book.
You can't go to school and learn this type of stuff,
you know, this is the type of stuff that's passed on
from generation to generation.
You see, the beaver's head is about this big only,
and so, you know, we don't want too much.
The neck is what's going to kill them the fastest.
My Pops was tough on me because this ain't an easy life.
My boys, they definitely gotta learn how to hunt and fish,
and do all this different types of stuff.
You know, it's gonna help them down the line someday.
Sneak one more in, right there.
All right, well, let's let this soak for the night.
TERRANCE: Bless us with luck on our beaver snare.
TIG: Yeah, bless us, please! We work hard!
MARVIN: Community is important because we still need
each other's help out here.
Akhiok means my home.
MARVIN: What a nice day.
GLYNDARIL: Well, Akhiok thrift store.
MARVIN: Yeah, these will work here.
GLYNDARIL: Right here maybe?
MARVIN: Oh, yeah. Moving pretty easy, yeah?
GLYNDARIL: Oh, yeah. MARVIN: Oh, yeah.
This one will be good, Glyn.
I'm starting a greenhouse for the community.
Set it right there, then we'll get four of them.
Sometimes we do not get a plane out here for two,
three weeks at a time.
If we got this started,
we'll be able to resource our own produce.
We often go up to the dump.
Someone else's trash might be somebody else's
treasure out here.
GLYNDARIL: All clear.
MARVIN: Easy-peasy.
GLYNDARIL: The idea of having an actual greenhouse will bring
an abundance of food that will help the community.
That's an amazing idea.
We make due with what we have.
I can't wait to grow some tomatoes.
MARVIN: Yeah, that's what I'm, kind of, hoping we get started.
GLYNDARIL: Brussels.
MARVIN: You know, I'm glad you see that there, Glyn,
because it takes a person to get it fired up,
and you and I are doing it.
Once they see what we're doing, they're gonna see, man.
I hope they do.
GLYNDARIL: My uncle Marvin, he's a, he's a go-getter.
When it comes to helping the community,
that's like his number one thing in wanting to do.
MARVIN: Oh, yeah.
I mean, it's so much easier, Glyn, with two people.
GLYNDARIL: The freshness of food matters.
And then not only that, it means you'll be even eating
healthier because you'd be growing your own stuff.
MARVIN: All right, Glyn, what do you think here, buddy?
Coming together?
GLYNDARIL: Oh, yeah.
MARVIN: A little twist on it, but...
It's coming together.
GLYNDARIL: This is not the Taj Mahal.
It looks better than the Taj Mahal.
Now I gotta go home and eat something,
because thinking about a greenhouse has made me hungry.
MARVIN: Yeah.
CHASE: You have to be really prepared if you're gonna have
this type of life.
You gotta be prepared every time.
There's a lot of times you'll have to get up and go.
DANIEL: Weather's looking nice. CHASE: That looks pretty good.
DANIEL: And we'll prep up today and see how it goes tomorrow.
CHASE: Okay.
DANIEL: Do some reloading, sharpen knives,
sharpen the harpoon head.
CHASE: It's been three months since we've had some fresh walrus.
DANIEL: Very important to have a sharp knife.
And if you catch a walrus on the ice, you know,
you butcher him right there on the ice.
You know, if you don't have it sharp,
you won't perform.
CHASE: It's my first year being a striker, huh dad?
DANIEL: Yeah, you know, you're gonna be up front.
CHASE: I'm confident.
DANIEL: Chris' baby got sick the other day,
and so Chase is gonna be my front man.
DANIEL: Yeah, right of passage.
CHASE: I've been making my own bullets for the past
couple of years.
Grain by grain, it has to be right on.
We don't want to miss.
DANIEL: The walrus is very important.
It's been with us for a long time, you know,
from generation to generation.
It's one of the most important main diets.
It's a big animal.
When it's here,
we try to get as much as possible for those
long days to come.
CHASE: It looks perfect.
DANIEL: You're all done, boy? CHASE: I'm finished.
DANIEL: Ready to rock? CHASE: Ready!
JOEL: Following these animals, you learn a lot.
And it's just good knowledge for the old toolbox.
I'm trying to get my freezer full for the rest of the winter,
but the weather's definitely not helping that.
This is like, this is a lot of open water for right now,
which means the ice out here probably isn't very thick.
And the main lake is definitely open.
Our hunting grounds are really cut down.
We're gonna have to stay in the general area.
The chances of getting moose now are cut way down.
And sometimes you don't have a choice if you wanna go hunting.
If your freezer's empty and you're hungry,
you have to go hunting, you have to go fishing.
You know, the weather could be super bad,
but you still have to go out and you have to try.
JOEL: There's a little otter over there,
that's what's eating all the trout.
Pick up a little otter for dinner.
(gunshot)
Damn it. Dang, that guy's quick.
He's right over there.
♪ ♪
(gunshot)
JOEL: (bleep).
(groans).
Kinda stinky down there.
I thought I got him. Dang.
All right, I'll go back to moose hunting I guess.
He'll have a good war story to tell his buddies now.
JODY: You always have to be cautious and
careful traveling winter, summer, fall, any time.
You have to be very respectful of the power of this place.
JAMEY: Bingo! JODY: Bingo!
JAMEY: Bingo, jackpot!
JODY: It'll be nice, and hopefully,
if we catch something to have some fresh fish to eat.
So I'm just really happy to be out with my dogs and my family,
and, um, you know, it's a sunny warm day.
And by warm, I mean 30 below.
Cabin fever is a real thing for a lot of Alaskans.
Like any time that, you know, it warms up from 60 below,
man it's a day to get out and enjoy the outdoors.
So, it feels good.
We seem to have a lot of good luck here in the summer
catching pike, so hopefully, we'll get something today.
JAMEY: All right, thank you.
JODY: What else do you need?
JAMEY: I need a stick split back there,
because we didn't grab any willows on the way out.
Thank you.
I'm gonna go over there and drop one in and
make a fire, okay?
I'm gonna set this one on the bottom for burbot.
So this is gonna set right on the bottom.
Other one is for pike, it's gonna be up off the bottom.
Do a little jigging with it,
we can add some feathers on there.
Gives off a flash and that attracts them.
One line sitting on the bottom here.
This one, this one is for burbot.
It's more of a bottom feeder, and it's got bait on it and
it's just gonna sit on the bottom.
This one here is giving off a little bit of a flash,
and it's for a pike.
JAMEY: You have to be patient.
JODY: We are getting less salmon in
the Yukon River every year,
to where this last year there was no subsistence
fishing allowed on the Yukon River.
So, our family, along with every other family up and down
the Yukon River, are really lacking that variety.
And it's something that our people really depend on.
JAMEY: Huh.
JODY: Nothin'? JAMEY: Nothin'.
There we go.
JODY: Yeah, it's been kinda hard this year without being
able to get any fish.
So I really hope we're able to get some fresh fish,
have a nice meal.
Huh, babe?
JAMEY: Yup.
JODY: Well, should we call it a night and come back tomorrow?
JAMEY: Yeah. JODY: And try again? JAMEY: Yeah.
TIG: There's difficult lessons out here in life,
that's something that can't be taught in books.
And only you learn that by coming out here and
going through it.
Come on, boys.
So today, we're just gonna go and check out some snares.
All right boys, feeling lucky.
Feeling lucky.
I gotta go in with confidence.
EVAN: Dad? TIG: Huh?
EVAN: How can you tell if we caught a beaver?
TIG: Uh, it feel a little light when I tug on them.
EVAN: Oh.
TIG: Nope. It didn't even bump him.
Make sure he still springs good. Oh, yeah, see.
It'd definitely catch if there was one around.
The lesson of disappointment,
it is a very valuable lesson out here.
If we came out and we just, you know,
punched in a hole real quick,
put one set,
came back the next day and had a beaver,
it'd seem too easy for my kids, you know.
TERRANCE: Does the baby beavers taste better,
or does the adult ones?
TIG: Well, the baby beavers are gonna be soft,
so the older beavers they,
they're gonna be bigger, fatter, and have a lot
more meat on them.
TERRANCE: I'm a young Athabascan.
My job is to gather food for the family.
TIG: It's very important to teach my boys our
Athabascan culture.
It's a dying culture.
There's not a whole lot of people out here living this
type of lifestyle anymore.
Jiggle little little bit.
It's a lot of fun having my sons with me.
They're making me laugh.
It makes it all go by a lot faster.
EVAN: Hopefully, we got a nibble.
TIG: I hope so.
Oh, man, that got me excited.
Big chunk of ice stuck to it.
All right, good enough.
Ah, nothing.
I know a lot of disappointment out here.
Many times I've come out and checked my snares and
I have nothing.
Sooner or later we're gonna catch something.
TIG: Oh, yeah.
That's that beaver's last breath, you know you'd,
then you'd see the bubbles on the ice.
TERRANCE: A lot of bubbles.
TIG: Good luck boys, good luck.
Please.
TIG: Oh, no. She's still set.
Little whirly bird.
Huh, this one seems tight.
Yeah, it's kind of bent funny now.
Something definitely happened with this snare.
TERRANCE: Did wood hit it or anything?
TIG: No, I think we missed one, huh.
We might've gotten close boys,
I'll be damned.
Maybe we are doing something a little right.
TIG: I hope.
TERRANCE: I feel lucky 'cause there's,
there's a tightened one over there.
TIG: We keep trying.
Easy to give up, it's hard to keep going when you're
having a hard time.
It takes some true grit to keep going.
Disappointment after disappointment, you keep going.
But I don't know, you know, this is a learning process for
all of us, you know.
We're gonna figure it out.
TIG: We're doing the best we can, so just help us out.
You know, bless us with your presence.
JOEL: Freedom is definitely taking control of your own life.
It's on you out here, and I like that journey.
JOEL: All right.
Fresh wolf tracks right here.
He's right in the same area I was looking for moose,
so I think he's out here looking for moose too.
Everything's chasing the same animal around.
You can tell there's been moose around because they keep the
brush really low.
That's their meal of choice right there.
I think I'll go walk around and see if I can see tracks or
maybe see him laying down in the bushes somewhere.
Hopefully, I don't run into the wolf.
The lake's not frozen over, so our hunting ground is super
small right now.
See if I can find something anyways in
the little area we do have.
This is kind of a known spot that the moose kinda
hang out in, 'cause it's like swampy.
Seeing nothing.
No tracks.
This is like, this is moose country right here.
Pretty sure they know it's hunting season though.
Worth checking out at least.
It's like 30 degrees right now and it's the middle of winter.
It's super warm.
It should be like 20 below right now.
Hence, the lack of moose hunting ground.
It's actually been raining the last couple days,
which is probably the worst weather you can get
for moose hunting.
A pretty tough winter.
DANIEL: Started out with my dad, myself,
and now it's the boys.
It takes a family,
a whole generation to learn all these things.
We just gotta watch out for the ocean currents though.
DANIEL: There's been no walrus for the past couple months.
You know, it's a slow season this year.
And hopefully, we can get something out there.
(Daniel singing Akuzipik melody).
DANIEL: (bleep).
ALA: Over there, over there!
♪ ♪
(speaking in Akuzipik)
(gunshot)
DANIEL: Hey, there's one over here!
Other side!
ALA: Yeah.
It was over here. Right on the other side in...
DANIEL: Trial and error.
Well, we can always try again.
JODY: The Yukon is just a constant, steady,
powerful being in our lives.
We don't have roads out here, so the Yukon really is kind of
our super highway and center to our culture.
So pretty out.
Hope these clear skies don't mean another drop to 60 below.
JAMEY: Yeah, hopefully we got something in here.
Soaked up a lot of that, uh, overflow.
JODY: I pray this one will provide us with something.
JAMEY: Keep your fingers crossed, eh?
JODY: Not being able to fish this summer has really put a
huge change in our diet.
Chop, chop, chop.
I see water.
JAMEY: Uh-oh. JODY: Is that from the line?
JAMEY: Hope I didn't hit it.
Nah, it's right there. Stuck against the wall.
JODY: Oh, babe, your hands must be icy.
JAMEY: I can't get it. JODY: Do you want me to do it?
JAMEY: Hold on.
It's right there, I just can't get a grip on it.
JODY: Here.
JAMEY: You feel it against the wall right there.
JODY: Here, let me try, how far?
JAMEY: It's up right against the ice.
It's kinda iced in against the edge.
You feel it right there?
JODY: Uh-hmm. Uh-hmm. I got it.
JAMEY: Yeah. Nothing.
JODY: Nothing today, but maybe we'll get something tomorrow.
We just have to, kind of, wait things out and being impatient
and getting frustrated will only make things worse.
JAMEY: I think I'll get some more water for drinking.
JODY: This Yukon River provides our people with
so much throughout the year.
Just always so thankful for this river.
Through that inner connection of our surroundings,
our presence, is striking that balance is really important.
And through it all, remaining humble.
JAMEY: Okay, burbot's set.
Going down.
And then, for the pike.
JODY: We'll just keep coming back every day and hope
we get some fish.
JAMEY: Another day out here on the Yukon.
MARVIN: In the village of Akhiok,
community is important.
I hope the kids growing up have community input.
MARVIN: Yeah, it really snowed last night.
Very heavy.
Let me see what these are,
you see I found these in there too,
they're a part of it.
GLYNDARIL: You got the instructions to put
this together, right?
MARVIN: No.
GLYNDARIL: Ah.
MARVIN: Um, it, oh, it looks like it's self-explanatory.
GLYNDARIL: Eh, we're just gonna wing it.
You know how we do it.
MARVIN: That's it. GLYNDARIL: Akhiok style.
The basic idea for us right now is to get this greenhouse up
and built, because the winter and fall is truly the time that
you wanna make sure your stuff will stay grounded.
MARVIN: Oh, yeah.
GLYNDARIL: Because I've seen sheds blow over.
Mine did.
MARVIN: You good?
GLYNDARIL: We're gonna get it, we'll figure it out.
One thing we are is ingenuitive out here, we figure stuff out.
MARVIN: Really nice to have Glyn here with me.
Trying to get the community involved and putting this
greenhouse up is a very big help for our community.
There it is, Glyn.
This is it buddy.
We're all together.
GLYNDARIL: Right.
This weather here, it'll test you.
It'll make you learn.
MARVIN: Okay.
You got, um, slack here you can pull it.
There you go.
GLYNDARIL: There we go. MARVIN: Okay.
GLYNDARIL: We're covered.
MARVIN: Gosh dammit.
GLYNDARIL: That wind is what just what's.
MARVIN: It's not structurally sound.
I got nothing holding these down.
Oh, boy. Oh, boy.
Okay, push it down.
Pull, Glyn.
(groans).
This is gonna blow away and there's gonna be nothing.
dow.
That's just bottom line.
I cannot sit here and just watch it blowing in the wind.
GLYNDARIL: I honestly think it'll take us longer to take it
down then it would just to make a little slice here,
tighten this, pull this over, cause we're there.
MARVIN: I know, but I can't leave it up I'm saying.
It's just up in the wind, it's got nothing holding it down.
GLYNDARIL: The, the reason this isn't holding down is
because this is so flexible.
If I grab a rock from down here and put it under there.
MARVIN: Let's do it.
GLYNDARIL: It won't bend.
(grunting)
There you go. That's all you need.
Every now and then, he may get a little unglued,
and if too many mistakes happen,
it'll get to him and it could just make him want to
basically shut down.
But I will not let that happen because we need to
get this built.
MARVIN: Okay, let's just keep going.
We'll leave it up for tonight.
GLYNDARIL: If you let your frustration get to you,
then you're gonna hinder yourself with whatever job done
you're trying to get done.
You got it.
MARVIN: Wee! I think we got her.
Looks pretty tight on the top.
Looks a lot better than, it's just trial and error.
I'm still learning from Glyn and he is one hell of a man.
We had a little bit of trial and error putting together,
but we came out with a pretty good looking project.
GLYNDARIL: Cold or not, gotta finish.
That's the Akhiok way.
JOEL: Pedro Bay is beautiful, yet harsh.
And that is what I like about it.
The combination of those two things.
♪ ♪
JOEL: I don't see anything around here.
The moose aren't really moving around right now
'cause it's so warm,
probably just hanging out, eating bushes.
Climate change is obviously affecting this winter.
Definitely the worst conditions you could ask for.
Especially for moose hunting.
I think, I'll switch gears here and maybe go cut some trees
down for, uh, for lumber.
Make use of today.
The thing that makes me thrive out here would be,
being able to adapt to everything and just rolling
with the punches.
Well if I'm not gonna fill the freezer,
might as well fill the wood shed.
I got a couple, uh, good standing dead trees back here.
I'm gonna try to get this in a couple of sections.
Like eight foot sections.
Probably make, uh, two by fours,
and interior siding with it.
Tree was a little rotten on the bottom,
so I cut a couple feet off.
It looks like it's all good now.
Gonna limb it, see if I can get it in the trailer and
tie it down.
Being out here's always an adventure.
It's a lot of work, but it's definitely worth it.
It's so freeing and sometimes you gotta adapt and overcome.
Move this suckah!
Heavy motha!
Might only be like six two by fours, but I mean,
to fly out lumber is super expensive out here.
If you can even get it out here.
Looks good, it smells good.
It's pretty, like my dog.
Ah.
Let's go see if we can tow this thing home.
TIG: We're just stewards of the land,
we're just like shepherds out here.
We take care of this land good,
it's gonna take care of us good back.
High hopes! Woo!
It's been a few days.
We're gonna go back through and hopefully have some luck.
Maybe, I dunno, I hope so.
Hah!
EVAN: What the?
TIG: I'll be darned boys. We got us a smart one.
Look at that, he put a piece of food in our snare.
Thank you for sharing your baabe.
But I kinda wanted you and not your food.
Maybe he thought we was hungry.
I'm trying to teach my kids is it's hard work.
You gotta keep trying, keep trying,
they're not gonna give up.
Down goes the bait, down goes the bait.
All right, we just gotta keep working, keep trying,
there's other stuff I can show you guys.
Let's go learn something new.
Learn something different.
TERRANCE: I'm learning a lot of skills from my dad.
He's teaching me how to be a man right now.
TIG: So the elders told me, you know,
"you're not having no luck on the beaver house,
go take a look at a bear den."
Good, good eatings, best meat in the world,
absolutely love bear meat.
All right boys, get up, come on.
Pretty sure it's been awhile since we looked at this one but
I'm pretty sure the hole was on the backside back here.
We don't even have a rifle with us but,
we don't need a rifle to check a den, you know.
If there so happens to be one in there,
there's a way we can block it off and we can go home and come
back tomorrow with some more guys, some more help.
Get a good bear party together.
EVAN: Dad? TIG: Huh?
EVAN: Why do you think the elders says check a bear den if
you're not having luck?
TIG: 'Cause you're not having luck with that thing and so you
go out, you change it up and, you make the beaver think
you're going some other place I guess.
Sometimes you're taught stuff and you just
don't ask questions.
Elders are everything to us out here.
You know, that's our book into the history.
Everything we know is passed down through the elders.
Woo!
I think I found it.
We'll take a look, check it, put this stick in there,
when I put that stick in there what I'm gonna do
is look for movement.
If there's a bear in there, you know,
he's gonna start moving around.
I'm gonna start noticing this stick move and you're gonna
start seeing it wobble and then you get excited.
Ooh-wee!
99% of the time they're not gonna turn
around and attack you,
they're gonna shoot out, they wanna run away.
Have this axe ready, right here Terrance.
♪ ♪
TIG: Watch that stick.
Nothing, no movement. Nobody home this time.
But we're doing exactly what the elders say, you know?
They tell us to come out and try to change it up,
do something different, check a den.
That's what we just did.
Every day you guys are looking more and more like men!
That's just one thing I never, ever did hear from my dad was,
how he was, uh...
never-ever heard him say he's proud of me.
And so, that's something I make sure my kids hear.
Don't forget this tree, you guys, someday you guys
are gonna come out and you guys will be checking these dens.
You know, someday I'm gonna be too damn old to be
coming out and doing this stuff.
You guys gotta remember where these dens are at.
You can check 'em your whole life.
MARVIN: All right there, Glyn,
you got your little memento there,
we'll put that up there.
GLYNDARIL: Yeah this came from the buck that we got.
MARVIN: Take that string we'll just tie it to the high bolt
right there and right there,
and we'll string it right there and,
there you go.
It's a sign of good luck, Glyn.
That's gonna be our mascot.
It's all coming together, you can see it's all a
sign of happiness.
When you know how to tie knots, tie lots.
GLYNDARIL: The only one I know how to tie, a bowline.
MARVIN: Got our trophy here, Glyn, here you go.
There you go Glyn, there's our trophy.
There's the memento.
Now, we've got potential to build,
plant seeds there see what it comes with.
GLYNDARIL: That's my first buck.
MARVIN: Well, there you go.
That's a sign of all subsisting right there.
GLYNDARIL: It reminds me in a way of family because I'm gonna
be taking my kids out to hunt the way you took me
out to hunt.
MARVIN: There you go buddy.
GLYNDARIL: Continuing a family tradition.
MARVIN: Now that we've got the structure,
we could see what we can really do and this is very helpful now.
GLYNDARIL: Just one little step to help the community go a
whole lot further.
MARVIN: It's starting with us and I'm happy.
Very good job and very good day Glyn.
Thank you, buddy.
JOEL: No moose today.
So I spent a long day at the office today, out in the woods.
In the wilderness.
And my payoff was a nice warm fire at the end of the day.
Tracker's payoff is a little bit of lovin'.
Well, I didn't get a moose but we got a load of,
couple loads of firewood and,
you know a couple logs I milled into lumber so that's,
that's a pretty good day.
Wasn't a complete loss, and had some fun too.
Saw some wolf tracks though, and the wolf is probably
looking for the moose,
and I'm sure he'll find the moose before I do.
Huh?
Hopefully, he doesn't find you when I'm not around.
But, awful weather for moose hunting,
pretty much the worst weather you could ask for
in winter time.
Got to keep on keepin' on, huh, Tracker?
Might not have moose meat but we still got fire.
Got my dog and my cabin and my wood stove going,
everything a man could want.
JODY: Just nice to be home, we're gonna have some tea with
some water from the Yukon and chaga that we gathered from,
um, the trees around here.
Even though we didn't catch anything we will eventually
'cause the river provides for us.
Sometimes it's not just about pulling fish out of the river.
Sometimes it's just about being there and taking in
what the land is offering you.
Whether it's just that peace you find in your soul,
or getting water from the river,
or the sun setting in the distance.
I mean honestly it sounds cheesy but it's what
nourishes my soul.
As native people, our connection with the
land is everything.
Hot, hot, hot, hot.
My favorite time of day, coming home after being out
in the cold all day.
God, that temperature really dropped pretty quick today
after the clouds left.
JAMEY: Well, I was looking forward to some fried fish,
but maybe tomorrow.
JODY: Maybe.
Just because we haven't been lucky the last few days
ice fishing doesn't mean we won't be in the next
few days or in a week.
Our people were taught to never give up.
We have to persevere.
If we give up, we may not be there to get something
on the third, or fourth, or the seventh day.
Perseverance is really important in our culture,
we keep doing the hard work.
It's healthy for us to be out, getting this fresh air,
gathering water.
It's just a beautiful life and I'm extremely thankful.
DANIEL: Pretty much last chance of seeing a walrus.
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