AMIYA_STRASSBURG CHASE_APASSINGOK CHRIS_APASSINGOK DANIEL_APASSINGOK EVAN_STRASSBURG GLYNDARIL JAIRUS JON_AVALNUN LOUISE_MOSES MARVIN_AGNOT STEVEN_TIG TERRANCE_STRASSBURG DANIEL APASSINGOK Each journey is different. Even to this day, I'm still learning. DANIEL APASSINGOK Ready for travel? JON AVALNUN Yeah, man. DANIEL APASSINGOK Long ride! DANIEL APASSINGOK [speaking Akuzipik] Aatakqun? DANIEL APASSINGOK [speaking Akuzipik] Haa uuwip! Haa uuwip! Passing your knowledge down to the next generation. DANIEL APASSINGOK It has to come from somewhere. I'm excited to go out and about. Going out to camp. My two sons are with me, Chris and Chase and one of their buddies, Jon. Find what you can out there and try to get food. Whatever is available for us to hunt. DANIEL APASSINGOK Good place for birding and looking for seals. DANIEL APASSINGOK And look for ivory. Camp is pretty much all the way at the other end of the island. 70 miles away. This island is 100 miles long. You have to watch the weather real good if you're gonna be going by boat, especially. You gotta take what the weather gives you. The sea has no mercy out there. We've been fortunate up to this day that we've been going there and coming home. DANIEL APASSINGOK [speaking Akuzipik] Taagavek navek whangkuta taaga pilghakut. DANIEL APASSINGOK [speaking Akuzipik] Taawa? DANIEL APASSINGOK [speaking Akuzipik] Taawa? DANIEL APASSINGOK Uuwauk! Haa! Asingiitameng. DANIEL APASSINGOK There's a big bump right there. DANIEL APASSINGOK Yeah, right there. DANIEL APASSINGOK Uuwik! Uuwik! DANIEL APASSINGOK Let's go! Let's go! Hahaha! That's the way to do it. DANIEL APASSINGOK Home away from home, boys. CHRIS APASSINGOK Yep. CHASE APASSINGOK Yep. DANIEL APASSINGOK Finally get here. DANIEL APASSINGOK [speaking Akuzipik] Seghleghhalek! DANIEL APASSINGOK [speaking Akuzipik] Nuukaqu. DANIEL APASSINGOK [speaking Akuzipik] Qawaagniiq. DANIEL APASSINGOK [speaking Akuzipik] Esnighqwaq. DANIEL APASSINGOK I can't wait. DANIEL APASSINGOK That was a good ride. DANIEL APASSINGOK Wasn't too wavy and windy, eh? JON AVALNUN Pretty smooth ride. DANIEL APASSINGOK A lot of memories come by when I get to camp. When I first started going out, I use to go out with my brothers. We didn't even have a cabin then there first. Now we got a cabin there. Like a family tradition now you know. Been a family tradition for a while. All right, finally here. DANIEL APASSINGOK Warm up. DANIEL APASSINGOK I'll turn the stove on. Home away from home, guys! DANIEL APASSINGOK Tired. Hopefully the weather is real good tomorrow. Ah, do some bird hunting. See if we can find some ivories. MARVIN AGNOT We all know, until we don't know. That's why we get stuck out here. That's where I've learned that I've failed because I didn't know. MARVIN AGNOT Oh, yeah. Look at how fresh that looks. How many hooks you got Glyn, 30? GLYNDARIL About. MARVIN AGNOT Well I do know, nice and red, they'll eat these. GLYNDARIL I know, right? MARVIN AGNOT Good fish. Very good, red salmon. MARVIN AGNOT Dig in the freezer and pull out some of your subsistence fish. To subsistence fish, halibut. Ha. So now we're just gonna bait our hooks. See Glyn, I try to go through skin twice. GLYNDARIL I got you. MARVIN AGNOT Two hook, past the barb, then it's harder for the predator or halibut or fish to pull the bait off. GLYNDARIL Baiting fish is a lot easier than bating worms. That was my first experience. Oh, that was the last one. MARVIN AGNOT Yeah, that's it buddy. We are all prepared. To have fresh halibut this time of year is really nice. Anything fresh from the sea. This is what I love to do here, especially with like Glyn. To have someone along with me that can carry this on and show that this is what we need as vital part of our way of living. GLYNDARIL Ready to get some halibut. For me, I try to go out there and learn as much as I can with whoever is willing to teach. This is all new to me, you know, we don't go fishing in L.A. This is things we don't do. MARVIN AGNOT Subsisting's always been a way of life and it still is a very big part of it. You get one halibut, man you got a meal for months. GLYNDARIL To have Uncle Marvin here with me, showing me how to go. Showing me the directions and what to do out here. I couldn't ask for a better teacher. MARVIN AGNOT I learned this from commercial halibut fishing outside here. We are on Kodiak Island which is the southernmost village on Kodiak and we get winds from all direction. And we get tide that moves 10 feet up, 10 feet down every day. This doesn't look too bad here Glyn. GLYNDARIL Oh, yeah. MARVIN AGNOT We caught halibut here last year and we're in a spot where the tide moves in and out. Could be a spot where foods moving on the bottom. GLYNDARIL There we go. MARVIN AGNOT I hope we get something here. Because the farther we get out, the rougher it's gonna get and I'm gonna have to buckle all the way back into it. Just spread them out just a little bit more Glyn. There you go. We got the baits on the center and back as well with the tide. GLYNDARIL We're on the bottom so I'm just letting it drag on the bottom and hook in. MARVIN AGNOT And that anchor should grab. GLYNDARIL Oh, yeah. MARVIN AGNOT That's it. GLYNDARIL Well, go put in our order. MARVIN AGNOT There it is. We'll let it soak for, at least 12 hours anyways, so tomorrow morning we'll go and pull it and, you know, hope we got halibut. GLYNDARIL That's how you put in a grocery order out here. STEVEN TIG We're all animals of this country. With every death of an animal brings new life to another one. STEVEN TIG Woo. Days are getting warm, boys. EVAN STRASSBURG Yup. STEVEN TIG My Uncle Charlie built this cabin, he always had the intention of building another porch on it right here, but he never got around to it. So, he usually comes up after the ice goes out which should be in about a month. STEVEN TIG So my uncles gonna be up here and I want to surprise him with a, with a porch. You can still see the bear tracks You can see some fingerprints. Last spring a grizzly came, and this is an outwards opening door. So he was trying to push in the door and he couldn't and, yeah, he was pushing and pushing and he couldn't get the door open. You can see the bite marks right here on the doorknob where he bit it and pulled it open. Those grizzly bears, they're real smart. Smart enough to where he figured out the doorknob on there. Hopefully with an extra door out here and another deterrent, I'll try to keep them out. I hope. EVAN STRASSBURG One board down. STEVEN TIG I'd taken a wrong turn down life's path, you know. I didn't have my uncle's full respect. It took a while for me to gain that back and I worked on it and I worked on it. Now that I got his respect back, you know, me and him see eye to eye. We get along good. I definitely want to help him out and do as much as I can for him. Watch out baby, might buke you, I buke you. Oh, timber. EVAN STRASSBURG There's a spider right there. STEVEN TIG Already? EVAN STRASSBURG Yeah. STEVEN TIG If you see them crawling around you know it's definitely getting close for everything else to wake up. The spring time, the land is waking up. Everything is moving around, scurrying around. We start to see a lot more tracks. All the bears are out. These bears they come out of their den, and they sit on top the hill in the sunlight during the day. Get their blood running again. Get their heart running again. Getting ready to go out and find some food. Coming through baby, watch out. Coming through little one. I don't got any extra lumber or anything like that and the nearest lumber store is probably about 400 miles away. By airplane, snow road, all that. Coming through boys. What I got is what I got. And I definitely gotta make sure I put full use out of everything. Go ahead and stand this wall up boys, get this one ready. Get it looking good, looking good. All right, oh. STEVEN TIG Oh, oh oh oh. Come on. STEVEN TIG Keep it down. Right up against the door frame. Like a glove, boys. Looks good. STEVEN TIG Held true. EVAN STRASSBURG What's oh true? STEVEN TIG Held true. It didn't move. My uncle, he done a lot with me and so, I'm just trying to repay him a little bit and it's looking nice. Can't believe it's coming up so good. I'm glad I got my boys with me. Wouldn't been so nice if I didn't have my boys with me. I've been enjoying my time with my boys. They seem like they're learning. They don't realize it but they're picking up on little things. EVAN STRASSBURG Like, a centimeter more. EVAN STRASSBURG Yeah, that's good, that's good. STEVEN TIG That's good? EVAN STRASSBURG Yeah. STEVEN TIG I don't go a whole lot of carpentry skills to teach them. But what I do know, I want to pass down to them and hopefully they can start cutting up some wood and making their owns types of things too. All right boys. Now all we gotta make is three walls. The fourth wall is on the house already so. All we gotta do is get this measured out. Get the door framed out and get this wall in and we'll go about figuring out the roof. Yeah, it's looking good though, boys. Let's go ahead and come over and measure these out. This will work to keep the bears out and make my uncle happy. CHASE APASSINGOK Feels like finding gold, but within your family and friends. CHASE APASSINGOK [speaking Akuzipik] Satelgaqs. CHASE APASSINGOK There's ducks coming. CHASE APASSINGOK There's ducks coming, wait, just wait. CHASE APASSINGOK They might come right in front of us. JON AVALNUN Holy cow. JON AVALNUN Getting real close. CHASE APASSINGOK Oh damn. JON AVALNUN Drop 'em. Drop 'em. Hey. Hey. CHASE APASSINGOK I'm gonna throw my shotgun. JON AVALNUN Haha. CHASE APASSINGOK Or should I just throw myself over. JON AVALNUN Go jump in the water! JON AVALNUN I thought you were going to drop one, alright. CHASE APASSINGOK I thought so to. JON AVALNUN Especially when they turn their body towards ya. CHASE APASSINGOK Ahh. JON AVALNUN I always try to hit them in the wing. JON AVALNUN When they're over the lane. CHASE APASSINGOK We don't always have to be seriously about everything, you know I mean. We know it's important for us to get more than enough food for ourselves. , there's two more coming. They just landed. When you're out here, it's real important to have fun with your friends and family. That's camp life. We gotta enjoy time we're spending here. Okay, we have one coming this way. It's coming straight for us. JON AVALNUN I think these bullets are too small. CHASE APASSINGOK You gotta have a lot of patience for this kind of bird hunting. One last check. Look like there's nothing. Try to get up early in the morning, huh? CHASE APASSINGOK The birds are probably sleeping now. MARVIN AGNOT I will overcome, which I have overcome. It broke me wide open, but I feel free. MARVIN AGNOT All right Glyn, you ready. GLYNDARIL Oh yeah. Oh, what a beautiful day. MARVIN AGNOT Oh, what a nice day. We're good to go, hope we get one. GLYNDARIL We got our skate and baited it. Put it all in the water yesterday. Today we're gonna go see if we got some, uh, seafood. MARVIN AGNOT We'll just come right alongside. Oh man, I hope we get halibut. GLYNDARIL Oh, yeah. MARVIN AGNOT It helps with Glyn, being around and to teach him and he's big, he's strong. MARVIN AGNOT He's nice to have around because of the girth he carries with him. Makes my job a little easier, especially if we are in deeper water. Hold on, let me get ahead of it. Then it's easier to pull, while I'm pulling into it. Good? GLYNDARIL Yep. No bait. MARVIN AGNOT No bait. GLYNDARIL That's a good sign. GLYNDARIL I don't like halibut hooking by myself because there are monsters in this water that I am avidly fishing for. Oh, starfish. No pulling. Oh, it feels heavy though. I don't think I should be pulling up the anchor yet. No, there's something on here. GLYNDARIL I can feel something. MARVIN AGNOT Like something exciting, I hope. GLYNDARIL Oh. It does feel heavy. MARVIN AGNOT Still going that way? GLYNDARIL Yeah. MARVIN AGNOT Oh, yeah. We're still going that way. It helps when I back up, huh? GLYNDARIL Yeah. You don't want to slip while you're trying to pull something with a lot of weight. So, you take your time. MARVIN AGNOT Going straight up and down. GLYNDARIL Straight up and down. A bullhead. MARVIN AGNOT Bullhead. The old timers used to eat these. My grandpa used to eat these all the time. I remember as a kid going and getting these for my grandpa right out in front of the village. Look at this predator, he ate his own kind. He's a bullhead. GLYNDARIL Bullhead that ate the bait. MARVIN AGNOT Bait inside its mouth. How you doing, Glyn? GLYNDARIL Doing good, feels like a workout. MARVIN AGNOT Well, there's our anchor. Look like we don't have nothing. No halibut. But our bait is still good, so that was not the problem. We just didn't have the spot, I guess. They got horns. GLYNDARIL Yeah, they're very sharp. MARVIN AGNOT And they're harder. They're very sharp. They're like a needle. And you don't want to get poked by that because you will get infected. 'Cause I imagine it tasted pretty good. I've never ate it. It's a matter of what you eat and what you look at, I guess, right, so now you decide what you're eating. MARVIN AGNOT It's just something we're just going to throw back overboard. Too bad we didn't get a halibut. There's a porpoise right behind us. There they are. GLYNDARIL Think they like the low humming of your engine. MARVIN AGNOT Yeah, it's pretty cool there. GLYNDARIL Yeah, it is. I come from a place where this is wall-to-wall people. Houses, all congested. There is no such thing as quiet where I come from. There was no such thing as looking at the stars at night. Living in a place like this, forces you to slow down. MARVIN AGNOT Here, look at this. We got no traffic. We just come and go with the tide. Well, we don't really need a minus tide to check this rock out right here. To see if we can get octopus. GLYNDARIL Oh, yeah. It's right there. MARVIN AGNOT And since we're out here, we're gonna look. And that's the rock, growing up as a kid, I always gotta check this. MARVIN AGNOT We don't need minus tide for this one. As you can see, there's this hole here and it's got all this little straggle. And the octopus burrows underneath this rock and we just stick a hose down in there. Blow it in there then the octopus that's in there, it'll come crawling out. This trip, I didn't bring the equipment, but I was just trying to show Glyn that you don't need a minus tide and if you're going away on a day and tide is low, you know, you can always check this one rock. GLYNDARIL Doesn't look too promising. There's no crab shells or anything right there to show that anything's been eaten. MARVIN AGNOT Nothing, Glyn? GLYNDARIL No. MARVIN AGNOT But I had to try, you know, you never know. GLYNDARIL Oh, yeah. MARVIN AGNOT It's not always got an octopus but it's always worth checking. You got a lot of ocean and it all looks like there's fish down there, until you go pull one up. We'll set it in a different spot this time, out deeper. Back when I was a kid, there was an abundance of halibut. One single hand line and in an hour, you would have three, four halibut. Now it just takes longer to get 'em and find 'em. So, I'm not complaining, we still get 'em but like I said, takes a little more effort. Yeah, we got a good grip our anchor, we're happy. We'll just let it sit and fish. GLYNDARIL Cool like that. MARVIN AGNOT It is cool like that. STEVEN TIG People aren't the only ones with a spirit. All the animal, all the land, everything. This whole country we live in, is one big living organism. We're just a part of it. STEVEN TIG We got some walls. Looking good. STEVEN TIG It's not looking too bad, you know. Getting closed in here. It's looking like a porch. STEVEN TIG Make it nice and tidy around here, kinda clean up a little bit after that bear thrashed around here and got everything all over the place. With this porch, I'm hoping the bear wouldn't be able to get into the cabin as easy, with two doors to go through. I got the walls up. They look good. They got squared out. Now I gotta figure out this front wall and get the door frame in and all of that. I'm gonna go ahead and just make another four-foot frame, 'cause those are pretty easy to make and throw that in. Now that I'm looking at it, I think we could'a just framed out that whole front wall and we would have saved a lot of cuts probably. Ha. But I'm figuring it out. Next time I build something, I shall know. We shall know. We're all learning together out here. I'll never, ever in my life, know everything so as long as we're out here, we're, we're learning something. How's it look, baby? AMIYA STRASSBURG Good. STEVEN TIG Good enough? Oh, good enough for a hug. Get up. AMIYA STRASSBURG Never. STEVEN TIG I got stuffs to do. Just having these children around, having these kids come out, it does get in the way, it does slow progress on everything but, you know, I don't have nothing waiting for me. I got all my children here. All my worries are right here with me so, you know, I'm just gonna go ahead and finish the project and get a roof over it. Make that a little more sturdy. STEVEN TIG We're getting close. My first time ever making anything out of frame. You know, usually, I just kinda slap stuff together as I go along. Pretty much what I've done here where a little more controlled chaos. STEVEN TIG Can't blow it down. EVAN STRASSBURG Pretty solid. AMIYA STRASSBURG Put me up there. STEVEN TIG What? You're too heavy, you might break it AMIYA STRASSBURG I'm not! STEVEN TIG When they're asleep and it's quiet, life doesn't seem normal at all. Pull. It gets difficult but it's a fun life. You know, I couldn't imagine life any other way without having all my children around. AMIYA STRASSBURG Hey! AMIYA STRASSBURG Get me! STEVEN TIG All right. No more monkeying around. You're gonna break my whole house down. DANIEL APASSINGOK Each person has a unique ability in life to do something. Something you have to be determined to do. DANIEL APASSINGOK Beachcombing for some beached ivory. DANIEL APASSINGOK You know, they got real good color. They can be completely white to completely black. They have a many different varieties of colors that come out in the middle. It washes up all along the coast. All the way down. Right now, it seems to be a little slow compared to last year. You know, last year, we had a record-breaking 82 pounds . I don't even know if we have four or five pounds yet. One of the unique things about beachcombing for ivory is that only people on this island, that are born from this island and this village can take beached ivory. Walrus ivory is tusks. You know, they come off out there in the ocean. Thick chunk or whole piece. Takes a lot of time for them to wash up on the beach, usually over the fall/winter season, that's when they wash up. A little slow right now. Whatever we find, we put to use out here. You know, every now and then, I find a buoy to use for the boat. You know, whenever it's lost at sea. You never know when you might find something. Wow. DANIEL APASSINGOK Bones will wash up first before the ivory does. That's a good sign when the bones are starting to wash up. Ah! DANIEL APASSINGOK Finally find something. Good chunk of ivory. Ah. Oh, nice color. Hey, what do ya know! DANIEL APASSINGOK Look at that! DANIEL APASSINGOK Another one. Ah. DANIEL APASSINGOK Found them in the same spot. They're beautiful. All the colors coming out of it. Real nice color. DANIEL APASSINGOK Some kind of a tool-looking piece, got flattened right there. Maybe it was the start of a tool. Maybe an ax handle or something. And this one looks like it's been under the sand, under the water for a long time. Good to make all kinds of earrings and small animals out of this one. Cut it right here and you can get a lot of nice color out of it. It's a beautiful ivory, you know, you can work on it, carve it, or, you know, sell it as a whole piece. It's not really about making money when you're camping, you know. You, you go out there to enjoy time with family members and financial part of it is just extra. I'm real happy for these. I'll go tell the boys, they're washing up over here. Maybe find more ivory. DANIEL APASSINGOK Put that one in my pocket. Maybe find more, huh? DANIEL APASSINGOK Nice spot. CHASE APASSINGOK Oh, there's gonna be a lot of birds, man. JON AVALNUN Yeah, this was a pretty good spot last year. JON AVALNUN Looks a little wore down, we might have to patch it up. CHASE APASSINGOK Oh, yeah. Looks like the waves might have broke it down. JON AVALNUN Could make a good cover right away, all right? CHASE APASSINGOK Okay. Don't take too long. CHASE APASSINGOK This blind, it's our go-to spot for bird hunting. CHASE APASSINGOK We go to it, every year and we're, we're gonna fix it up. JON AVALNUN Probably make it a little wide huh? CHASE APASSINGOK Yeah. Using the rocks and the logs. It looks more natural to hide behind or not to be seen. All right. Okay. JON AVALNUN Hopefully them birds start tracking now. CHASE APASSINGOK It's a really good place because you're on top of a hill and you can see almost everywhere around you. You can see the water. You can see the land. Oh, there's three geese coming. All right. Come on, come closer. JON AVALNUN One, two, three, four of them. CHASE APASSINGOK Ah. You can't just shoot anywhere or anyhow. You gotta be precise, it's so important to try and stay locked in. CHASE APASSINGOK The evening wind is about to start, man. JON AVALNUN Pretty soon. MARVIN AGNOT You don't have to be very successful to make it out here because you just got to really get there. It's all accessible. If you're willing to go and get it. MARVIN AGNOT All right. Here we go, buddy, you ready? GLYNDARIL I'm ready. GLYNDARIL No other place to be. MARVIN AGNOT On that last round we pulled, we didn't get anything. MARVIN AGNOT So now I found a different spot. MARVIN AGNOT Out deeper. MARVIN AGNOT At least one halibut. MARVIN AGNOT We'll be happy. MARVIN AGNOT When we build up enough gumption again because of what we didn't get. To go back out and do it again. MARVIN AGNOT I had to add a little more anchor line on this. MARVIN AGNOT Yeah it was a little deeper. All right. GLYNDARIL Oh, yeah. I'm pulling the anchor up first right now, so once the anchor comes off the ground, it'll be dead weight. You'll feel more of the pull. Oh, let me take this off. It got hot already. Let me hop in. That's some work. There's the anchor. MARVIN AGNOT Yeah, now we're on our halibut skate. This is it. GLYNDARIL There we go. MARVIN AGNOT Well, the bait is gone. Well, the skin stayed. Oh, just a little bit of skin left. Oh, well. Kinda leaky looking right now. GLYNDARIL Yeah, can't win them all. MARVIN AGNOT No, can't. Maybe we'll get one on the last hook. I got something. Uh-oh! MARVIN AGNOT Got something coming, you got a cod. You got a cod salmon! GLYNDARIL Hurrah! MARVIN AGNOT Nice cod, Glyn. GLYNDARIL Oh, that is a nice one. Real nice cod. MARVIN AGNOT Well, friend, we gave it a shot. Sure enough that was a cod that came up on the last hook but it was better than a bullhead. Man, I thought we would have had a halibut. Maybe we were a little early or a bad spot, I don't know. That'll hold us over to the next meal cause it's not like we're gonna eat halibut and cod every day. We just get it when they show up cause of summer and I can't wait for that. GLYNDARIL Homeward bound. MARVIN AGNOT Fishing requires a lot of patience because it's not always there. Could have been the halibut, but cod, I'll be happy with because it's fresh. CHASE APASSINGOK It's always who you are, you still feel like a kid. First experiences, learning about the land. There's still a lot to learn. CHRIS APASSINGOK Hi, guys. CHASE APASSINGOK Hi, how are ya? CHRIS APASSINGOK What did you guys see? JON AVALNUN Couple of geese and some ducks were passing. CHASE APASSINGOK Never seen a whole flock yet. CHASE APASSINGOK If you can see the animals, they can definitely see you. CHRIS APASSINGOK It's real tough, you have to be real still. The animals are smart. CHRIS APASSINGOK Flock of geese. CHASE APASSINGOK Good flock. CHRIS APASSINGOK Come on man. Damn. They never came close enough. JON AVALNUN There's a goose coming from over there. It's coming this way. CHRIS APASSINGOK All right. CHRIS APASSINGOK Got a fry. CHASE APASSINGOK Really happy to bring food back home to the cabin. It's just about the feeling when you're out there. Catching the birds, the food. It means a lot to me. CHRIS APASSINGOK Thought I was gonna miss. CHASE APASSINGOK Yes. STEVEN TIG In our culture, all the ravens that they fly around, those are our great-grandfathers. It's a good sign of good things to come. EVAN STRASSBURG Have a board. STEVEN TIG Oh. Thank you. STEVEN TIG Next up is gonna be putting on the roof. STEVEN TIG The finishing stretch now. STEVEN TIG This isn't the ideal way to build a roof, but it's getting the job done. EVAN STRASSBURG Is that scary? STEVEN TIG Not one bit. All right. Uh oh. Ha. I made that one real crooked. It's up though. Solid as the mighty oak. Yeah, now that I'm up top, I can see that it's really crooked. You know, I'm not contracted. I'm not been hired to do this by anybody. It's just for my uncle and my family. I'm no professional carpenter or anything like that but, that's the way I was taught. You learn by your mistakes out here. You just gotta live and learn and keep working ahead. If I took my hat off, I'd have some wind in the hair. Whatever hair I got left. All right. We're not gonna use any plywood underneath. We're just gonna go straight to tin on top and call it good. Get this door in there. It's just the way our people have always been. If there's a simpler way to do something. A way to do something that's gonna save you some time and get more out of your day. Our people are gonna move with it. Doesn't look the greatest but it's our own. Something we did ourselves. TERRANCE STRASSBURG You need help, Dad? STEVEN TIG No. Usually, I put some more braces and stuff in here but, I run out of material. I'm lucky that I saved that lumber earlier in the build cause without it, I wouldn't be able to get this roof on. Oh. STEVEN TIG I'm gonna go through. Oh . STEVEN TIG Yep, I'm going through. STEVEN TIG I've got to hurry up and get this. STEVEN TIG Down good enough. STEVEN TIG All right, where am I going? All right. That's, that's gonna make noise all night. But for what I need right now, this is close enough. Kinda the motto of this whole build, close enough. Next, the door and we're gonna call it good. Perfect. I want to add a little bit of finishing touches to it, maybe hang up some old tools or get some of the stuff off of the ground. I wanna make it look a little more welcoming. A little more like home. LOUISE MOSES Wow. STEVEN TIG What you think, momma? LOUISE MOSES Nice. I love how you set it up. Able to find everything now. I was looking for the axe earlier. It's always laying on the ground. STEVEN TIG Yep, everything's always scattered around after that bear got into everything so. STEVEN TIG I figured final little touch would be hang up all the stuff. Got the beaver snares ready. Got the ice pick ready for next year. Everything we need right handy. LOUISE MOSES Awesome, I love it. It's a huge change. STEVEN TIG I guarantee you, that bear's not gonna figure out to get those keys to open this door knob. We're all family here in Allakaket. If somebody needs this camp, if someone is cold, somebody got hurt and they needed to get in there. I definitely don't want them to be locked out. But the bears, they're not gonna be able to go about and unlock that door knob so, yeah, I think this is gonna to keep the bears out. My uncle, he's helped me all the way through my adult life, you know. Since I moved to Allakaket, he's always been helping me. He's given me a lot, you know. I've always just taken, taken, taken. I never really give back much. But this is something, you know, he's gonna be able to come see all the time. He'll know that me and my kids, my family, done this for him. It all came together. Wouldn't be able to get it done so fast if it wasn't for the help of all my children. All my children. He's given me so much, it feels good to give back a little bit to my uncle. DANIEL APASSINGOK Need to find ivory. CHASE APASSINGOK There could be some ivory buried under that sand. DANIEL APASSINGOK Quite a bit of bone all over. CHASE APASSINGOK Yeah. DANIEL APASSINGOK No chunk yet? CHASE APASSINGOK Uh-uh. DANIEL APASSINGOK No luck? CHASE APASSINGOK Not yet. There's a lot of bones, but I'm not seeing a lot of ivory. But there's always a chance there's gonna be something. You just gotta keep looking. CHRIS APASSINGOK Oh. CHASE APASSINGOK Ahh. CHRIS APASSINGOK Oh, Baskin. CHASE APASSINGOK That's a white tusk. CHRIS APASSINGOK It's some kind of sinker or something. CHASE APASSINGOK Something. Wow. CHRIS APASSINGOK Yeah. That was a tool they use to find back in our ancestor days, you know. DANIEL APASSINGOK What did you find? Oh. CHRIS APASSINGOK Looking like a whale harpoon. DANIEL APASSINGOK All ivory. CHASE APASSINGOK Looks like a Unkuvak tusk. DANIEL APASSINGOK Yeah. DANIEL APASSINGOK Looks like a harpoon head. The making of a harpoon head. Looks like it wasn't finished. It amazes me, a real simple tool like that, they harvest real big animals like walrus and whale. You know, it might be touched by one of my ancestors. DANIEL APASSINGOK It has some pretty good value. CHRIS APASSINGOK Wow. DANIEL APASSINGOK I like to see my boys enjoy this. They'll probably do this on their own when they grow up and have family together, you know. Something to look forward to every year. MARVIN AGNOT Is that your instrument? GLYNDARIL Hey, no wrestling. The secret to a good, fileted fish is not letting me do it. Yeah, my wife is the one who taught me how to filet fish. I ain't saying' I'm the best at it. Ah. MARVIN AGNOT Yeah, that's gonna be some good home cooking, I can't wait. Oh, I always feel happy, especially when I come around, Mar's like to cook all these stuff. And she makes all these different ways of cooking it and that's she learned a lot from her mom and her nationality is put into how we just cook it. I bet you can't wait for the summer too, huh? You gonna go halibut hooking? JAIRUS Halibut hooking? MARVIN AGNOT And camping maybe? JAIRUS Well, we're gonna go, we're gonna go seal hunting! MARVIN AGNOT You're gonna go seal hunting. JAIRUS Uh huh. MARVIN AGNOT Oh, I can't wait to have that. Oh, thank you. GLYNDARIL Oh, it's very well. Very well. MARVIN AGNOT That's what I've been waiting for. So cool. GLYNDARIL This is the best feeling I could have. Provide for my family. No better feeling. MARVIN AGNOT Hmm. Very good Marsh. I happy to see the kids, happy. That's very big for me to see. What it's all about, family. And to be part of their family, makes me feel good. STEVEN TIG You know, I wouldn't of ever been able to make it this far if it wasn't for a strong family behind me. I'm hoping all my hard work pays off and gives my kids a little easier life. GLYNDARIL With raising my kids, especially where I come from. The hardest thing that I've learned was trying to raise a man when you weren't exactly sure what to teach. Learning from my wife's culture. GLYNDARIL I'm teaching my kids how to survive and help put food on their table. CHASE APASSINGOK Family really means a lot to me �cause it lets me know that I have people I can go to. DANIEL APASSINGOK Some people think that having money is a, being wealthy. To me, mine is being with family and teaching my boys subsistence way of lifestyle. Help them grow. Grow up to be who they are today. CHASE APASSINGOK We might as well keep looking, huh? DANIEL APASSINGOK Yeah. [SNAP IN] CHASE APASSINGOK Have a flock of snow geese coming. When we're going bird hunting, and the fog rolls in. It's actually kind of a good thing. When the fog is there a lot of the birds will try to stick to the coast and it will be a lot easier for us to shoot. Couple of ducks coming. I don't know if they'll hit us. JON AVALNUN A seagull. CHASE APASSINGOK CHASE APASSINGOK [speaking Akuzipik] Seagull. A dear seagull. But they're good tasting. It's ducks. Hey, hey, hey! JON AVALNUN I thought that duck dropped. JON AVALNUN What the heck. Gonna check the lakeside real quick. CHASE APASSINGOK When we're hunting, we usually have one person that stands up and goes to look around with the binoculars and see what's coming for us. JON AVALNUN Oh, get down. JON AVALNUN They're coming CHASE APASSINGOK Hi. JON AVALNUN There's about fifteen of em'. CHASE APASSINGOK They're coming. CHASE APASSINGOK Come on! Ahh. What are they doing? There's gonna be more. Long way. Those are ducks. Small ducks. JON AVALNUN They're broke over here right now. CHASE APASSINGOK Yeah. Kinda feel like we might have a better shot over there. JON AVALNUN CHASE APASSINGOK Yeah, I'm ready. Oh. Let's get going before it gets too late.