GLYNDARIL HAZEL_STRASSBURG JAMEY_JOSEPH JAZMINE_AMODO_WHITE JODY_POTTS_JOSEPH JOHN_PINGAYAK JOHN_SONNA_BOY_PINGAYAK_III LOUISE_STRASSBURG MARCELLA_AMODO_WHITE MARVIN_AGNOT STEVEN_TIG_STRASSBURG TERESA_PINGAYAK TIG_STRASSBURG JOHN PINGAYAK Our elders tell us, "Take care of the land and it'll take care of you. If we don't, you're gonna be hungry." Same thing with the ocean out there. Our elders tell us, "Respect it. Don't challenge it, you're not gonna win." You have to be respectful for all living things, you're living in my land. It's one little spot in the whole map of the world. We have to live off this land, and the oceans out there, and the rivers. Hard work but if we can sustain that, we sustain our way of life. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG All the moose is usually up and down the river this time of the year. In the winter, moose aren't reactive to any type of calls or anything. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG They hear a moose call, they just wonder, "What the hell is that?" In winter, moose hunting, some ways is easier, but some ways is a lot more difficult. Luck isn't something that a person is born with, it's something that you build up and you work on all your life. Woo. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Cold! STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG I try and store up as much as I can for moose hunting, that's when I need most of my luck. All the moose tracks are going into the woods down in this area. Moose are too smart, you can't just stop on their tracks and follow their tracks in. My plan is to go back here and try and circle around the moose, the same way the wolves hunt moose. It's where he slept. My goal isn't to find and shoot a moose back here. I had to make a little more noise coming back here. If there is a moose between me and the river, hopefully it'll hit the open river. If there was a moose back there, he woulda came out. I see two sets of tracks right there. I think three of them did go across. There's a cow, calf, and a bull. Mating seasons over but they still hang out together. Not all of them but some of them, I think it's a safety in numbers type of thing. This is a dangerous country. There's always predators roaming around. Aw, man, little marten up here. Pack of wolf tracks following a moose track right here. There was a battle here. You can see where the wolves chased the moose out of the willows. Yeah. See the marten tracks around here? See the marten came in sniffing around where this moose and the wolves fought. See where they chased from out of the willows, wolves came in from all directions. Damn, he's dead in the woods right here. Got a calf. See that's just a little calf man. Looking for a bull, they kill anything. A young cow. Cow moose calf. Man, that's horrible. The first dead moose I've found this winter. I keep cruising up the river, I might run into these the wolves. I gotta get on this quick. Quick, quick, quick. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Whoa! JODY POTTS JOSEPH We came down here to the lower country. Today we're hunting ptarmigan. See if we see any sign or any birds. JODY POTTS JOSEPH The river just froze super jumbled. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Lotta ups and downs over ice and drift. Defiantly a challenging year using the river. JAMEY JOSEPH There's some pretty good drop offs in the other side on the bar over there, some of it's like six feet (1 meter) down, straight down, some of it is ten (3 meters). We'll see going across. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Get real slow okay? JAMEY JOSEPH All right. JODY POTTS JOSEPH All right. In my lifetime, I think, that I've seen is winter is coming later and so the river's freezing later. The ice conditions aren't as safe and so we have to learn to adapt to, safety wise, things that we're not familiar with in order to feed our family. So, what do you wanna do, babe? JAMEY JOSEPH Walk in right here, huh? Check it out. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Yeah. So, we'll just walk the trail for grouse tracks. JAMEY JOSEPH Yeah. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Are you gonna take the kids little twenty two? It's such a tiny little kids twenty two. I'm indigenous to this place. I'm a part of the landscape, I belong here, and home is everywhere. You know, wherever I'm at in this country out walking the land, I just feel like I'm at home. I'm not here to, like, shape the land or conquer anything, for me, it's more about just being a part of it. JAMEY JOSEPH Grouse. JODY POTTS JOSEPH What's that hole? JAMEY JOSEPH That's where the grouse go into the snow right there. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Oh, yeah. JAMEY JOSEPH They burrow down in the snow. JAMEY JOSEPH When I was a kid. JAMEY JOSEPH Walking in there and all of a sudden they start taking off JAMEY JOSEPH All around me. They were in holes all in the snow. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Uh huh. JAMEY JOSEPH They were all buried in the snow. JAMEY JOSEPH What the heck? JAMEY JOSEPH Nope. JAMEY JOSEPH That's not one of those holes. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Oh. JAMEY JOSEPH I bet that a squirrel fell out of a tree is what it was. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Really? JAMEY JOSEPH It was on a branch and the branch fell down and he hopped away from it. JODY POTTS JOSEPH At least you look good. JAMEY JOSEPH What's your name again? JODY POTTS JOSEPH Well, I don't see any tracks out here. It's just too open, you know. They're not in the open areas. We'll turn around and head back. It's so important when you're out there to remember that sometimes you might get lucky and other times you might not. But always be thankful for whatever you get even if it's just a nice view. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Okay! Here we go! JAMEY JOSEPH What are you doing? Ha, you got it. Ha, not me. I'm not that fun. Nah, I'm good. JODY POTTS JOSEPH So, we'll head back to the river and we'll just keep at it. MARVIN AGNOT There's our cannery right there. MARVIN AGNOT This is where we get our heating fuel. MARVIN AGNOT Okay. MARVIN AGNOT One drum at a time. It'll last in my house a couple months. That's $2,000 or so for oil and gas for the winter. Thank you, Jamey. I'll bring you some king crab. The heat in my home gets pretty expensive, anything to do with trying to get ahead with the little bit we can save is, man, that's priceless. MARVIN AGNOT Well, Glyn, look at the house. It's all, look at how rotten the plywood is. GLYNDARIL Oh, like shredded cheese, it's like shredded, shredded wall. MARVIN AGNOT Spring, summer, fall, and winter, out here the weather takes its toll. My house is rotten. This window is leaking inside and. GLYNDARIL Raining inside as much as it is outside. MARVIN AGNOT Yeah. The weather changes very quick around here. Within 12 hours, it could be flat calm and next minute we got a blizzard. Right now, it's a perfect time to catch up on my house work that's very much needed. It's pretty rotten. I bought that home there for my auntie Marta, my uncle who lived there many years prior. You know, they never painted it, and it was vacant for many years and all the moisture just absorbed into that plywood and got behind the caulk in that window then it leaked onto my floor. Then I started noticing that I got a hole in the floor it's like, man, I better get to it. Looks easy but we don't know till we get into it. Progress, yeah. All right. Let's see what happens here. I'm just breaking the window frame. Whew. Gotta take my hat off. Wow, right in the wall. Whew. GLYNDARIL Oh, yeah. This is all a whole lotta put, oh, woah. MARVIN AGNOT Woah. Yeah, this is going to come out really easy. GLYNDARIL This thing will go. MARVIN AGNOT There it is. There's the water that's trapped in there and leaking from the window inside leaking side here in then broke the window. Now that the windows out, I'll be able to see the studs. If the water rotted out these studs, my house will be in trouble. Oh, how's that looking there, Glyn? GLYNDARIL It all looks good here, it's probably a little soft spot right here but. MARVIN AGNOT Oh, that will be, it'll dry out. GLYNDARIL Yeah, once it gets sealed in. MARVIN AGNOT Yeah. Yeah. This Tyvek saved the day. It didn't rot after many, I thought it was going to be a lot worse from just looking at the plywood, you know, that really made me think of like, "Man, now what did I open up?" Cool like that. Should be very good for the night there, Glyn. Tomorrow will put the glass, it will be daylight. We'll open it back up and put up new window. GLYNDARIL Oh, yeah. TERESA PINGAYAK Careful, Patrick, Sonna Boy. JOHN PINGAYAK Be really careful. JOHN PINGAYAK Teresa, it's just right for our house. TERESA PINGAYAK I told you. JOHN PINGAYAK Wowee. Go ahead and put the stove there. JOHN PINGAYAK [speaking Cup'ik] Yes, like that. TERESA PINGAYAK When the electricity goes out in the winter, we look at each other and we say, "Uh oh." TERESA PINGAYAK We need a wood stove in this house. JOHN PINGAYAK Yes. TERESA PINGAYAK The heating fuel is like five dollars and thirty six cents a gallon. JOHN PINGAYAK Uh hmm. TERESA PINGAYAK No matter how far we are from what's happening in the world with fuel and all that, it's affecting us right here in the village. JOHN PINGAYAK I don't think the prices of the oil is gonna get smaller, it's gonna be bigger, and the wood stove is for a lifesaving investment for the future. All right. Sonna Boy, we'll have to get some driftwood, so we can go back and forth and bring some here for our, what? JOHN SONNA BOY PINGAYAK III Stove. JOHN PINGAYAK Loud. Stove! JOHN SONNA BOY PINGAYAK III Stove. JOHN PINGAYAK All right. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Caribou. I've been seeing their signs for like months. But I haven't seen any. JAMEY JOSEPH Yeah, it's pretty cool. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Today, I'm not hunting them. They're out of season. JODY POTTS JOSEPH But it's nice to see actual caribou, so I'm sure we'll see more soon so let's skedaddle. JAMEY JOSEPH All right. JODY POTTS JOSEPH The edible birds we're looking for, spruce hen, ptarmigan, and then also the grouse. Really looking for any signs of fresh tracks that will indicate there's one nearby. JAMEY JOSEPH There's a lot of rabbit signs, that's for sure. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Uh hmm. We're sticking to the trail and not going off into the woods too much just because this snow is just super deep this year. It's hard walking through when it's like thigh deep snow, you know. There's all these grouse tracks. These are the tracks where it walked and it turned around so it landed here, it walked this way and around, then it took off from here to there. And then it launched from there somewhere this direction. But now that we're seeing more tracks, Jamey can walk out in the woods and look for those birds. I'm gonna shoot over here and go on a trail. JAMEY JOSEPH See you on the other side, eh? JODY POTTS JOSEPH Good luck, babe. JAMEY JOSEPH There's sign everywhere, all over in here. Back here where I started and all over in here so they're in here somewhere. They were here at one time. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Pretty and waiting, my new name. See anything, get anything? JAMEY JOSEPH Nope. I see a lot of tracks but no birds. JODY POTTS JOSEPH We're just gonna keep covering country looking for those tracks. Babe, I see fresh tracks right here. It's like going on and off the trail. Oh, there it is. It popped up, babe. JAMEY JOSEPH I see it. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Damn it. I got it. JAMEY JOSEPH Nice shot. JODY POTTS JOSEPH My little twenty two, it misfired which is super frustrating but then I was able to get that bird. JAMEY JOSEPH A willow grouse. JODY POTTS JOSEPH There we go. It's a nice one. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Mahsi' choo. GLYNDARIL Hello, world. GLYNDARIL At least the weathers nice, right? MARVIN AGNOT Oh, yeah. MARVIN AGNOT It's just like spring weather out here in the middle of winter. MARVIN AGNOT Perfect timing for new window, new wall. Yeah, just try to find a two by four. GLYNDARIL The stud? MARVIN AGNOT Yeah, the stud. It'll take a while. GLYNDARIL Oh, look how rotten that is. See how soft that is right there? MARVIN AGNOT Geez, Glyn. These are the ones, oh. MARVIN AGNOT Right in my jaw. Whew. That didn't feel too good. You got me there. GLYNDARIL I got you. MARVIN AGNOT I'm a seasonal worker and I use my money that I make from my fishing to pay for fuel, for heat in my home. My material for the wall and the window, that became very costly. For this thing that I'm doing is really gonna help 'cause of the draft I'm gonna stop around the windows, 'cause I know those drafts because if the rain gets in there, so does the wind. Ha. Oh, yeah. There it is. GLYNDARIL There it is. MARVIN AGNOT There it is. Oh, yeah. MARVIN AGNOT This will go over the top of it and slide it. Slide it up. GLYNDARIL Oh, yeah. There it is. MARVIN AGNOT That is very good. Oh, yeah. Gliders ready. Okay. GLYNDARIL Coup de grace moment. Fin. MARVIN AGNOT Just push it right in. There it is. GLYNDARIL You wanna hold, I'm gonna run inside and come, pull in. MARVIN AGNOT I'll hold that and put in a couple of screws. Just grab right in the middle of the window there Glyn and pull it. Hold that, there you go. You got it? GLYNDARIL Yup. Go for it. MARVIN AGNOT Okay. I'll put another one there and it'll keep it from moving. There it is. GLYNDARIL It's a move. We got the easy part done. It'll give us time to work on this other half. MARVIN AGNOT It'll come together. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Looking like a cow moose. Perfect shot too. Broad side. Easy shot. Yup. Now I see underneath, it's good it's got a low hanging belly. There's a baby in there. Do your thing, big mama. TIG STRASSBURG Get off this god darn river, though. TIG STRASSBURG Wolves around. Now these wolves they don't care, not like me. The one that they killed down here that was just a calf. Some moose tracks coming in. I can tell, see this is just moose tracks, this one I can tell the wolf pack is on behind it. I'm gonna go back into the woods and follow this track back. I'm about ninety nine percent sure that there's a dead moose back here now. I'm seeing all the signs of a dead moose. That's not a good sign right there either, a big chunk of moose fur on this trail. Ah, horrible. This trail's getting a lot wider, this moose is starting to drop, they're dragging this moose down now. Yep, blood in here, think we're getting close. In these packs they got these big wolves, about a hundred, hundred twenty pounds (45, 54 kilograms) and those guys are like hankers. You know what I mean? You got two, three, four of those hang on it, the other younger ones are coming in, biting at it pulling, you know taking chunks out. You know, that's why I say, my rifle, it's the best death that any animal can have out here. And these animals die natural death out here, it's not nice, it's not a pretty death. There could be a wolf on it, it could be alone. I'm not totally sure. Uh oh. TIG STRASSBURG See the kill right there. Yeah, they got it. Yep, big cow moose. Definitely. These wolves, they're a vicious animal. This belly right here, that's a cow moose. They only do that to the cow moose, go straight into the belly, eat that fetus. Who knows how many calves, there coulda been one, two or three calves in there. Over the years they say one cow moose can have fifty, fifty calves. That's just one dead one, but futuristically you know, thirty moose probably they killed. Early last winter there was a bunch of wolves around town that were getting dogs and what not and I tried my best with them, I didn't have any luck. And I can't let this continue to happen. I know the wolves are gonna come back for this, there's a lot left to eat. I'm gonna hang some snares, put some traps and what not. Then next time they come through, even if I don't catch anything, they're gonna know that I'm after them. You know, they're not gonna feel safe anymore. JOHN PINGAYAK Ah, let's check some more down to the south area to find wood for the wood stove. JOHN SONNA BOY PINGAYAK III All right. JOHN PINGAYAK There was a typhoon in Chevak, Alaska. JOHN PINGAYAK When the wind subsided, I saw the big difference with the land. It's not like the land I've seen before. These are the type of wood that came all the way from the Yukon River. That typhoon flood that came, took all of this wood and deposited them right here. This is more interior than ever before. I lost a lot of things in Typhoon Merbok. But it materialized something that will keep us alive in the future. Okay, good. JOHN SONNA BOY PINGAYAK III It's gonna be a while before I get back from basic training with the National Guard. JOHN SONNA BOY PINGAYAK III I won't be here for a while. Gonna miss the fresh air and the outings with my grandparents. JOHN PINGAYAK [singing Cup'ik song] Chop the wood. Hold it. Split it in half. Light your match. Man, it's really hot. JOHN SONNA BOY PINGAYAK III Ah, ha hah ha. JOHN PINGAYAK Gotta fill this up, okay? JOHN SONNA BOY PINGAYAK III Uh huh. JOHN PINGAYAK Go. JOHN PINGAYAK We are going to be. JOHN PINGAYAK Warm for the rest of the year. GLYNDARIL I wonder if I could snap the, nothing beats brute strength. MARVIN AGNOT How you doing there Glyn, pretty good? GLYNDARIL Oh, yeah. MARVIN AGNOT Well, here we got a break, as you can see it's a little bit of rain. MARVIN AGNOT But no wind. Lot easier. GLYNDARIL The only thing that's predictable about this weather is it's un predictable. MARVIN AGNOT Doing the same thing on this side as I did over here. New window, new wall. As you can see, this is all totally doomed. GLYNDARIL Mother nature has snow, she has rain. She has cold and wind. MARVIN AGNOT There it is. GLYNDARIL You give mother nature time, mother nature will beat it down. Already starting to pick up and get windy out here. Starting to get a little white caps. MARVIN AGNOT Oh, yeah. You can see these two windows, the one I'm putting in there is longer so I gotta come out and move this over. GLYNDARIL The inside we thought it was bad but the floor, it was worse. MARVIN AGNOT Look at that, see the rot, wow. Look at this, that's the floor. See the floor? GLYNDARIL Oh, ya, ya. MARVIN AGNOT Disaster. MARVIN AGNOT That's why I didn't really want to get into this because I knew this was coming but, oh well, I'm getting into it, heavily into it. Well, I'm trying to find the floor joist. As you see, I gotta cut the plywood out because I gotta put new plywood here cause this is all rot. Well, that's what I'm gonna do. GLYNDARIL I'm just securing this Tyvek. Make sure it doesn't, go. MARVIN AGNOT I'm going to draw it out Glynn so I know what we're drawing. Twenty one and three quarters. GLYNDARIL Twenty one and three quarters. Oh. GLYNDARIL Like a glove. MARVIN AGNOT And like I say, it's no worries. GLYNDARIL Ladies and gentleman. MARVIN AGNOT There it is. GLYNDARIL And you know it's sturdy, it's holding me. MARVIN AGNOT Now, I gotta build a square box. GLYNDARIL For your window to sit on. MARVIN AGNOT Yeah. It's very hard living in the remote community because your mind wonders, with that comes negativity. And then I don't feel good. I have a lot of experience failing. GLYNDARIL Oh, yeah. Woo! Look at that. That looks good. MARVIN AGNOT Alcohol manipulated my way of thinking and it took me thirty five years to realize that. Took everything from myself, ended up with just a backpack on my back. And I'm getting everything that I lost back again. I got my outboard. My skiff. I got my house. That's it. And it's very big for me. Man it's felt right here. There it is. GLYNDARIL Perfect. Like a glove. MARVIN AGNOT Perfect. Happy Glyn, here you go buddy. Thank you. GLYNDARIL My pleasure unc. MARVIN AGNOT I'm so happy now. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Babe. JODY POTTS JOSEPH You see that wind whipping? You can hear it too. JODY POTTS JOSEPH The sound of the wind blowing through those trees across the river, reminds me of my childhood. Feels like home. So while Jamey's getting the fire going, I'm gonna start processing the bird. These animals are our brothers. We have to be humble, grateful and really have the mindset of reciprocity. 'Cause I can give you countless times where the animal just offers itself to you. And then that's when you take it really in honoring that relative for sacrificing itself so you can eat. That's the way I go out, that's my mindset and those are our traditional teachings. Sure will taste good. TIG STRASSBURG Seven, eight, nine. HAZEL STRASSBURG How many snares are you gonna bring out dad? TIG STRASSBURG Twelve. We'll start off with a dozen. We're not gonna set nothing on that main trail. So that way when the wolves come back in, they're gonna come in as a pack. They'll follow the leader in and then they'll get to the dead moose and they'll just start breaking pieces off and going to the sides. And that's when we'll hopefully we'll catch wolf in one of these snares. Let's go baby. TIG STRASSBURG See this dead moose baby girl? HAZEL STRASSBURG Much bigger than me. TIG STRASSBURG Definitely been a wolf in here. Oh, look there's track in it. You see all these little trails leading out baby? HAZEL STRASSBURG Yeah. TIG STRASSBURG That's where those wolves are gonna come in, they're gonna chew off a good chunk of meat. And then one's gonna go this way and he'll go lay down and eat it over there. Another one will take a big chunk and go lay over there and eat it. And that's the ones we want to snare off. Wolves, you know, it's just another animal out here just the same as us, trying to survive. I never ever want to extinguish the pack but they're getting a lot of moose and they're doing it really close to town. There's a hundred and eighty people in our community maybe. All of us are moose eating people. We don't have any more caribou herds. The fish aren't really back up this way. The wolves, gotta eat like us but they can do it farther out there in the country, doesn't have to be right here next to town. Wolves chin is right about knee high. That's how high you want it. If you can get this snare to drop right behind the ear, he's gonna be dead within five minutes. All right, baby doll, time to start sneaking these out there. Where should I put this one? HAZEL STRASSBURG Right here, I think. TIG STRASSBURG What do you think, it look good? HAZEL STRASSBURG Yep. TIG STRASSBURG We'll give this three days maybe. Think we'll get some snow here and once we get that fresh show it's a brand new blank page out there. Somebody's got to go out and read the story in the tracks. Who knows. TIG STRASSBURG All right, baby doll. Let's go take a look at our spot. Hold on. You hear that? Wolverine. Not is expecting. HAZEL STRASSBURG [speaking Central Denaakk�e language]Enaa Baasee' Doyonh. TIG STRASSBURG The wolverine. TIG STRASSBURG [speaking Central Denaakk�e language] Daa?tl'edze, teekkone. Those are three of the most powerful spirited animals in our culture right there. You know we got something, we gotta be thankful for it. Well, I got some skinning to do. HAZEL STRASSBURG Do we still need to go for the wolves? TIG STRASSBURG Yeah, absolutely we still gotta try and get those wolves. The wolverines aren't the ones killing the moose. The ones killing the moose are the teekkone. Oh, we go. Oh, heavy. He's full of that moose meat too, so he's fat. Little bit exciting? HAZEL STRASSBURG Yeah. TIG STRASSBURG That's called adrenaline rush right there baby. JOHN PINGAYAK No, not there. Oh, yeah, right there. Not crooked, you gotta do it straight. JOHN SONNA BOY PINGAYAK III It'll be at thirty two. JOHN PINGAYAK All the way through here? JOHN SONNA BOY PINGAYAK III Uh hmm. JOHN PINGAYAK Okay. Okay. TERESA PINGAYAK Need help? Oh, don't let it fall. JOHN SONNA BOY PINGAYAK III Is that, is that it? JOHN PINGAYAK Look at it. Look at it from the side, see how it is. JOHN SONNA BOY PINGAYAK III Looks nice. TERESA PINGAYAK Look it says inactive and active. Okay. JOHN SONNA BOY PINGAYAK III This lever goes to the door. TERESA PINGAYAK Let's say it goes south, okay? JOHN SONNA BOY PINGAYAK III And then, and then you gotta wait till it says active or when the needle goes west. You can take this lever and face it north. And then if you want to add more wood, you take the level and you again face it south. TERESA PINGAYAK Just say toward the door. Like you said. TERESA PINGAYAK Taringan? JOHN PINGAYAK Yeah. TERESA PINGAYAK And we'll ask each other again after half an hour. JOHN PINGAYAK Don't ask me again. TERESA PINGAYAK We'll ask Sonna Boy. Sonny Boy's a phone call away. JOHN SONNA BOY PINGAYAK III With this stove and with this wood, it's gonna help them out a lot while I'm gone. They wouldn't have to worry about going to the store and getting, getting little propane tanks and those little propane tanks don't come cheap around here. It's, it's totally worth it, totally worth it. Get ready to start the first fire, I'm pretty excited about this. JOHN PINGAYAK From this day, we're gonna have a warm house. And our family, I know they'll be coming here and stay in a warm place. JAMEY JOSEPH Better char them. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Jamey and I aren't rich by the American standards of wealth but I feel like we're rich just with peace. You can't really buy this, right? The view, with the Yukon out there, warm fire. Good life huh? MARVIN AGNOT Now that I've changed my way of thinking, I know good things come to you. I don't have to go very far to go and get it, it comes right to my door. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE Oh, really nice. MARVIN AGNOT It's like we know what we're doing, like we're regular carpenters, I was so happy when we think of what we did it's like man. Having Glynn here was a big help. Want to come inside and hang out for a second, it's nice and warm. HAZEL STRASSBURG Dad? TIG STRASSBURG Huh? HAZEL STRASSBURG What kind of tracks are these? TIG STRASSBURG That's moose. HAZEL STRASSBURG Oh. TIG STRASSBURG I live here in Allakaket, Alaska. Along the Koyukuk River. The confluence of the Koyukuk and Alatna River. Might be one of the coldest spots in Alaska. TIG STRASSBURG This country, it's tough and that's something that you can expect to go out and just have luck. LOUISE STRASSBURG What you do today? HAZEL STRASSBURG I went up the Alatna river and dad heard a wolverine growling cause it got its paw stuck into the snare. LOUISE STRASSBURG Still alive? HAZEL STRASSBURG Yep. LOUISE STRASSBURG Wow. TIG STRASSBURG We do get cold. Just gotta keep in mind that at the end of the night we're gonna be home to make a fire and survive. [SNAP IN] MARVIN AGNOT I'm so happy now. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE They, it's right over here. GLYNDARIL Whoa. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE There it is. GLYNDARIL There it is! There's our Island. Gonna dig for gold right out here. Well, clams, that's our gold. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE Low tide is at eight MARCELLA AMODO WHITE Slack tide half an hour. So, we have to start heading back within that half an hour. GLYNDARIL Onward and upward? MARCELLA AMODO WHITE Yep. GLYNDARIL Onward and over? JAZMINE AMODO WHITE Yeah. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE Okay, we could try right here. GLYNDARIL Got one. Oh. Aw, man, I was tricked. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE That's a baby one. JAZMINE AMODO WHITE A baby [speaking foreign language]! MARCELLA AMODO WHITE Oh, that's a big one right there too. Ugh. JAZMINE AMODO WHITE Two of them at a time. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE That's a good one. GLYNDARIL Boy there's a lot a dead ones. Hey Jazmine, you know how to tell which ones are the good ones right? JAZMINE AMODO WHITE Yeah. When they're alive they start closing up by themselves and from the dead ones they don't close at all they just stay cracked. GLYNDARIL Dinner. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE I like to go back with at least half a crate. Especially wintertime you want to make these trips count. But wintertime when the weather is cold is the best time to get the clams because that's when Toxic Shell Poisoning is at its lowest. Yeah. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE This is called qassaqing a clam. We call it qassaq because you eat it raw. It's the best way to eat it in my opinion. GLYNDARIL Oof. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE It's my favorite part. GLYNDARIL Better rinse these off and we can head home and then dinner. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE Yep.