EVAN_STRASSBURG GLYNDARIL HAZEL_STRASSBURG JAIRUS_TINKY_WHITE JAMEY_JOSEPH JODY_POTTS_JOSEPH JOEL_JACKO JOSEPH_WHITE LOUISE_MOSES MARCELLA_AMODO_WHITE MARVIN_AGNOT SOPHIE_STRASSBURG STEVEN_TIG_STRASSBURG JOEL JACKO Come on. (bleep). JOEL JACKO I can't tell if I hit him or not. I came up on a bunch of seals laying on the ice. All I have with me is my twenty-two and with a small caliber rifle. JOEL JACKO I have to shoot him right in the head, be able to kill him because if I shoot him in the body, it's probably not gonna kill him. They knew I was sitting up there. So, they were all jumping in the water. So, I was kinda hurrying. JOEL JACKO I can see the water moving, so I think he's still there. JOEL JACKO There he is! There he is! JOEL JACKO He just came up. JOEL JACKO But I gotta get him to get onto the ice before i can shoot him. JOEL JACKO Or I might not be able to get him back. JOEL JACKO Man, he's being sneaky. Iliamna Lake, the home of freshwater harbor seal. We don't know where they go when the ice is all froze over. People say you, know that there's under water caverns and stuff but I'm not sure where they go. JOEL JACKO Went back under. Community here, we used to use the fur for everything. I'm trying to get back into that, I want to start tanning. You know it's something that I know my dad used to do, and he used to rely on it I mean that's how he made his money for a while. JOEL JACKO I've been here for, like, twenty minutes, half an hour now, JOEL JACKO And they haven't come back. JOEL JACKO I think they're gone. I might have to go up there and look for blood. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG All right. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Woo. HAZEL STRASSBURG Dad. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG What's up? SOPHIE STRASSBURG Uh, what are we gonna build today? STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG We're gonna get started on the woodshed today. We got all the boards cut out and everything. These are gonna be the walls. It's not gonna be built right here we gotta bring it over there. So, we gotta get it close to the house. Sound good? HAZEL STRASSBURG Okay. SOPHIE STRASSBURG Yep. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Watch out don't let me club you. We burn wood for nine months out of the year every year. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG It gets to be a pain in the ass a little bit having my wood buried under snow all the time so. HAZEL STRASSBURG This is heavy. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Don't get lazy on me now. So, I'm just gonna get a woodshed built something to get my wood out of the snow and the rain in the summer and keep my wood nice and dry ready to burn. Close enough. Build right here. Something your mama always asked me for. Your mama always wanted a woodshed she's tired of wet wood. Square up the end. All right my two eight footers (2 meters). STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG It's very important for my daughter to learn about building. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG I don't differentiate between the boys or the girls, my boys can do it my girls can do it. All right girls, this is gonna be the base of our woodshed right here. Should be easy peasy. Just a simple design. Just, you know, I'm no architect. I'm not totally a carpenter or a construction-er or anything like that so you know I'm just trying to do the best I got. Whoa. As long as I keep sticking pieces of wood together and screwing them down, you know something's gonna pop out eventually. Coffee time yet? SOPHIE STRASSBURG No more coffee for me. MARVIN AGNOT Well Glyn here we are. GLYNDARIL Yeah. MARVIN AGNOT On a beautiful day. GLYNDARIL Right. It's snowy out. GLYNDARIL But it's still kinda warm. MARVIN AGNOT A real nice day to start our green house. MARVIN AGNOT The green house has been open all winter and exposed to the elements. MARVIN AGNOT Glyn it looks like, um, over the winter that, uh, rain and weather damaged some of our pots holders here and don't look like they're gonna make it to the summer, so. GLYNDARIL We should just go ahead and take them all out though cause their rusty. MARVIN AGNOT Yeah. Well, we'll just start taking this stuff out as we can then, a little bit at a time. Start on this one. Ugh. Got it? GLYNDARIL Oh yeah. MARVIN AGNOT This has only been our second year of doing this. Glyn and I have learned quite a bit just from last year. Frozen solid. GLYNDARIL Frozen solid. MARVIN AGNOT It's so expensive to get freight from Kodiak we don't have a store here. GLYNDARIL Wanna start on this side? MARVIN AGNOT Yeah. All our produce is flown in here, regardless of if it's rotten or not you're gonna end up with it and there's a waste of finances that we don't have to waste on. Can't wait for the kids to start planting with you, uh? We get a community garden to come up plant and take care of it. GLYNDARIL Oh yeah right. MARVIN AGNOT And I just wanna be able to grow our own garden because of how fresh this stuff will be and the accessibility of it. Whoa. MARVIN AGNOT Watch out in case this falls out the bottom. GLYNDARIL Yeah. MARVIN AGNOT Cut our feet wide open. GLYNDARIL Tetanus! MARVIN AGNOT Yeah, it's a good thing we're changing these out. GLYNDARIL Here. Right here, right here, right here, right here. Let me, there we go. MARVIN AGNOT Get ready. GLYNDARIL One, two, three. What's next unc? MARVIN AGNOT Well, we can go get the pipe. GLYNDARIL Hardware store? MARVIN AGNOT Hardware store, we can go to the hardware store. Elements got to our metal beds and rusted them up so we just gotta adjust and build some new ones. We found some pipes up in the hardware store which we call the dump. Well, here's the spot Glyn. GLYNDARIL Welcome to the Akhiok hardware store we've got all thrift materials here to your left, we've got used white goods right here aisle two. MARVIN AGNOT Lotta stuff under there. GLYNDARIL Oh yeah. MARVIN AGNOT Break your gizzy. We're gonna build plant and bed walls with these hard plastic pipes. Plastic does last a hundred years, and this was originally our sewer line. GLYNDARIL Gotta reuse it. When you live in a place like this the best thing we can do is go recycle and repurpose things that are just gonna sit there. MARVIN AGNOT Cool like that. I try and help the community because we don't have a lot of money and I'm not saying we're all broke, but you know any little bit we can save, keeps that hole smaller in your pocket. Now we can just load these up put them on the cart and take them home to the garden and then start building. GLYNDARIL Teamwork makes the dream work. JOEL JACKO I don't see any sign that I shot him, no blood or nothing. JOEL JACKO What makes seal hunting very hard is that if you shoot them in the water, they're gonna sink. JOEL JACKO That's the whole reason I was trying to feed around the ice is so that, when you kill them, they're just already on the shore. JOEL JACKO I think that's my bullet hole right there. People used to hunt them all the time, for the fur the meat and everything. Nobody really hunts and traps as much as they used to. This is where that seal was sitting when I shot at it. Pretty cool you can kinda see where they'll come in and out of the ice. There's the waters shallow enough to even see the bottom out here. JOEL JACKO It'd be really easy to see the seals come in too. JOEL JACKO But not like they're coming back anytime soon. Well, I think I might do something else. (bleep). JOEL JACKO Seal just popped up right there. As I was getting ready to leave, he saw me and I saw him, we both got scared and he took off. Maybe I'll hunker down for a second. That scared the crap out of me. He was like twenty feet (6 meters) away. I think hunting seals takes a lot of patience. Really have to pee. Which is something I don't have a lot of, I feel like especially when I'm hunting, I like to hunt stuff on the move. JOEL JACKO Been laying on the ice for like forty minutes. JOEL JACKO They haven't come back up, and I'm starting to get soaking wet. All right, I think I might call it. Come back tomorrow or something but I think they need a little bit of time to relax. Think I'll pack up here and I'll head up to a different lake and I'll try to catch some lake trout or some rainbows or something. JAMEY JOSEPH Okay, there you go. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Nice. JODY POTTS JOSEPH We are trapping for marten. Marten is a small fur barring animal. JODY POTTS JOSEPH From the weasel family and they have really soft nice fur. JODY POTTS JOSEPH I personally like to use marten in making hats that we wear. I definitely use a combination of modern and traditional gear to stay warm and it's really important for us to be able to harvest these furs as our people have for thousands of years. That'd be a good spot. JAMEY JOSEPH Yeah. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Set a trap. I could put a box right there between those two trees. JAMEY JOSEPH Looks good. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Whoa. Son of, uh, I got, just got buried. This environment is pretty harsh, and this kind of gear will keep us from freezing or getting frost bite. We do have a relationship with these animals, we don't over harvest. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Jamey and I we go out with the best intentions. Safeties on. I like these conibear traps because their much more humane and it's an instant, um, end for marten. So, with that screen in the back air flow can move through and that's like old stinky fish tail. It'll just lure them right in, they'll be looking for food. I think it's set nice. That looks good let's move on to the next set. Keep moving babe? JAMEY JOSEPH Yeah. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Well, I've got both the walls framed out now. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Looks a little better. Whoa. Just trying to go about putting it up first then getting the roof but it's too high. Ugh. HAZEL STRASSBURG Gonna take you down first. HAZEL STRASSBURG I took you down! STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Come on girls. SOPHIE STRASSBURG Be there in a jiffy! I won. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG It's very important to have this woodshed and have my wood dry and ready to go. It gets down to negative sixty, negative seventy and so we do have extreme cold temperatures here. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG It feels real good to go back into the house where nice warm wood stove burning, you know. Nothing beats that wood stove heat. Whoa. Hard hat area. All right now what we gotta do is put the walls up. How's it looking girls? SOPHIE STRASSBURG It's good. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Just good? These kids are always learning, they�re always picking up on stuff. All right come on you guys. It might not seem like they're learning it or picking up on it, but they are. EVAN STRASSBURG Geez, that's a lot of nails. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Whoa. Pretty damn cool. EVAN STRASSBURG Yeah. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Next, I'm going to have to climb on top and get the sheet of tin on there real quick and call it good. Oh yeah that's awesome. EVAN STRASSBURG Wow. That's really good. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG These gaps are good, it's good for the wood to have some air flowing through it. Good job buddy. EVAN STRASSBURG Mm-hmm. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Another day it should be set to go. JOEL JACKO Just kinda trying to find a way through here, trying to get up to the lake to go fishing but the main route, it's opening up in spots and getting pretty sketchy. JOEL JACKO So, I think this is probably one of my last chances to get out on to the lake. JOEL JACKO You know get the spots that I can only get with the snow machine. I hope that the seals come back out I'll give it, you know a day or something to come back. JOEL JACKO But at this point, just try to take advantage of the ice right now. This time of year, with the snow and the ice, like it basically opens up everything 'cause you can kinda just drive where you want now. Gotta take advantage of that and try to go check out this lake that usually has fish in it in the summer time. Try to do a little fishing while there is still ice, and I can kinda get up there with the snow machine otherwise, basically I'll have to wait till like middle of summer to get up there again. It gets pretty sketchy around right now. Oh, (bleep). JOEL JACKO Agh! Ugh. (bleep). Whoa. Came out of nowhere! Oh, crap. Man, people do this for fun? Why do I put myself through these ordeals? I think because I like pain and misery. I do kind of actually like to be miserable sometimes. It's not that I like it it's that it makes everything else better. The reward is better because of the misery. Dumbbell Lake. We're gonna try to catch rainbows, should be some rainbows or dollies in here. Would like to catch something, my life. Ho. Agh. Aw, man, there's a little water seeping through here. You can always smell the fish in there. I'm hoping that there's trout in here, we shall see. Oh yeah that's a good depth. Good depth. Ew. So, I'm gonna bait up the hole. Throw some salmon eggs in there. These eggs are pretty potent so the fish will smell them from ways away so if there's any fish around will find the bait and then they can come catch 'em. Maybe tomorrow or something. Be back in the morning. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Well, the trap looks good. JODY POTTS JOSEPH But since we're here I do wanna go look for some chaga. JAMEY JOSEPH Okay I'll uh, clear the trail. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Sounds good. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Jamey and I work really well together because we both individually get after something and then it all ends up working together. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Jamey is going back to do some trail work because there's a lot of trees that kinda get weighed down by the amount of snow we've had and block the trail. JAMEY JOSEPH We accomplish more when we split up. JAMEY JOSEPH She'll go off, do one thing or I'll go off and do another. It's important to maintain the trail, keep it clear of hazards. JODY POTTS JOSEPH I am gonna take advantage of us being in this birch forest to hunt for some chaga to make some tea. Chaga, it's like a growth, like a fungus that grows on the tree, and it actually is really potent antioxidant. And sometimes it can be hard to find. I think I see a piece of chaga about halfway up a tree there. Gosh that's high, I'm gonna have to try to find a pole try to knock that off. Hey James, stop! I found chaga behind me, in that tree. JAMEY JOSEPH Jody actually located some chaga, but high up in a tree. I wish she would've found something a bit closer to the ground. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Does it reach? Oh yeah! JAMEY JOSEPH Right there, babe? JODY POTTS JOSEPH Yup, oh, right. JAMEY JOSEPH Oh. No. JODY POTTS JOSEPH I believe in you. JAMEY JOSEPH No. There you go. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Where'd it go? JAMEY JOSEPH Right here. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Yay. We got some chaga. JAMEY JOSEPH Yeah, it's starting to get dark all the sudden. JODY POTTS JOSEPH We got our traps set. You worked on the trail huh? JAMEY JOSEPH Yup. JODY POTTS JOSEPH We head back, have a cup of chaga. JAMEY JOSEPH Sounds good. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG All right big Ev, final stretch. EVAN STRASSBURG Tell me when you're ready. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG All right ready. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG We're gonna need one more sheet. EVAN STRASSBURG Okay. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Woah. EVAN STRASSBURG We need to build a woodshed so the wood can stay dry. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG We do have a decent amount diesel monitor that heats our house but that kinda like a secondary heating source. Diesel is super expensive out here in the village. Think it's like ten or eleven bucks for a gallon of diesel. All right let me see Ev. That's far too expensive. Okay watch it right. You know we do have seven children running around, we got two of them still in diapers yet so we gotta have this house warm all the time so need that woodstove burning. Now you know buddy. It's pretty damn sketchy, even for myself. Ah. Oh (bleep). STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG I'm gonna come down, the hard way. Oh my, woo. EVAN STRASSBURG Oh. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Evan. EVAN STRASSBURG Huh? STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Go down and try pull that end over. EVAN STRASSBURG I am. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Yeah. EVAN STRASSBURG Is this good? STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Uh, almost. Yeah, right there. EVAN STRASSBURG Is it slippery? STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Yeah, very. EVAN STRASSBURG Careful up there. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Oh yeah, I'm trying. Watch out now. EVAN STRASSBURG I am. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Woo. EVAN STRASSBURG You doing good? STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Yeah, doing about as good as I can be. Whoa. Evan! EVAN STRASSBURG Huh? STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Catch me. EVAN STRASSBURG You're too big though. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Come on boy, catch me. EVAN STRASSBURG Where's your nail gun? STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Oh, (bleep). Oh no. EVAN STRASSBURG I see it. EVAN STRASSBURG I can't reach it though. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Uh oh, hopefully I'm a little bit taller than you. Ha. How's it look boy? EVAN STRASSBURG It looks good. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Wow, can't believe we made this. Looks pretty darn good. EVAN STRASSBURG Yeah, it looks real good. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG All right go get your bed, start moving in. EVAN STRASSBURG Go get my bed. MARVIN AGNOT So, we just get two more. GLYNDARIL Yeah, two more. MARVIN AGNOT Yeah. GLYNDARIL All right. MARVIN AGNOT I hope this is the last of the winter cold snow. GLYNDARIL Oh yeah. Mother nature can't make up her mind. MARVIN AGNOT We'll just keep building our bed here, then we'll be ahead still, huh? How's that sound? GLYNDARIL Sounds like a plan, I mean, get it done I mean, we gotta do it anyway. MARVIN AGNOT Good to go? GLYNDARIL Yup, good to go. MARVIN AGNOT And with this greenhouse, I'm trying to set it to where it's easier to maintain. Okay Glyn, we'll see what happens, okay? We're gonna start with either one I guess, right here, huh? GLYNDARIL You're straight up. You're good. MARVIN AGNOT All right, now we'll just build the walls. Started crossing, hold it right there Glyn. GLYNDARIL Got you. MARVIN AGNOT It's gonna save us money and it's also gonna give us fresh produce. Because the benefits are great, we just gotta make it come together. GLYNDARIL There it is. MARVIN AGNOT Look pretty good? GLYNDARIL We got a wall here. Far side? MARVIN AGNOT Yeah. GLYNDARIL Our plan is to, in a way maximize our growing area, by taking out some of the old stuff and putting in, new to us stuff. Ready? MARVIN AGNOT Yup. Where do you wanna go with it? GLYNDARIL Right about here. This will help us. And not just us as my family, but us as the community. MARVIN AGNOT There's our foundation. GLYNDARIL Awesome. From poop pipe to planter pipes. MARVIN AGNOT All in a complete cycle. One way or the other. Ha. We'll put the top on. GLYNDARIL Let's get the top on. MARVIN AGNOT We're gonna put the cover back on our hoop house. GLYNDARIL All right. MARVIN AGNOT Okay. And then Glyn and Marcella and the kids are gonna go down and get some clam shells to enrich the soil for when it's time to put the plants in, which is getting very close. We're pretty good right there Glyn. GLYNDARIL Oh yeah. MARVIN AGNOT That's all we need now, dirt and some sun. Good progress. GLYNDARIL Hoorah. JODY POTTS JOSEPH You ready? JAMEY JOSEPH Yeah. JODY POTTS JOSEPH So, the traps have been out for several days now. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Typically, you don't go out and check them every day because you basically you don't want to disturb the area and put too much human scent down. JODY POTTS JOSEPH We set the trap, we let them sit for a while. JODY POTTS JOSEPH And now it's time to go check them and hope we catch a marten. JODY POTTS JOSEPH It's empty, we'll keep moving. Check our next trap. JAMEY JOSEPH Yeah. JODY POTTS JOSEPH It's really rare for you to catch a marten in every trap, every time you go out there. Maybe if you catch one or two, you're doing really good. Whoa! JODY POTTS JOSEPH Wow, that's a nice one! That's a blessing. It's nice small female. JAMEY JOSEPH Well, we got enough for a hat now. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Definitely feel very blessed, now I have enough marten to make my hat so I'm really happy for that. You ready? JAMEY JOSEPH Go ahead. JODY POTTS JOSEPH We have this sacred relationship with the land. And the land provides us these gifts. And for a marten to be able to make me a hat and keep me warm while I'm out on the land, I think we have to honor it by using them in the right way. I'm as equally a part of this land as the marten, as the fox, as the wolf. We work together in order to survive. JAIRUS TINKY WHITE Yes. Yeah. GLYNDARIL Come on kiddos. Oh yeah, look at all these shells. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE Oh yeah, look right there. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE You guys, grab some of those, fill up your bucket and then we'll head over this way. GLYNDARIL The plan is, we're gonna get some clams for dinner and we're gonna get some clam shells for the greenhouse. Gonna smash them up and, uh, a little extra calcium inside of our soil. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE Gotta get when the getting's good. GLYNDARIL Yeah. JAIRUS TINKY WHITE Another shell and another shell. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE Good, go put it in the bucket. JAIRUS TINKY WHITE And another. JOSEPH WHITE That is a lot. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE In Akhiok people weren�t into trying to grow their own produce and stuff. Now we're like transitioning into a newer generation because now we actually have a community greenhouse. GLYNDARIL This will help us with the greenhouse, making that soil nice, rich and ready to grow more. We are self-sustaining. GLYNDARIL We want to be able to do this, so we are not dependent on the outside world. We live by the tide out here. When tides low we come out and get our food. That's the hope with the greenhouse. That we can, uh, substitute with the little time that tides high, we still got food we can tend to. We still got food we can get. JAIRUS TINKY WHITE Hey look, I found a crab! I found a crab! MARCELLA AMODO WHITE Oh, you did find a crab. GLYNDARIL Oh yeah, you did, look at that. JAIRUS TINKY WHITE It's okay crab. It's a little baby crab. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE Yup. I think we got plenty of clams, don't you think? GLYNDARIL Oh yeah, last few shells and we can head back. All right. Thank you, mother nature. JOEL JACKO Well, I don't see any seals sitting out there right now but, maybe they're just not out yet. JOEL JACKO Same conditions as it was yesterday, so I don't see why they wouldn't come back out today. JOEL JACKO There's only one way to find out. JOEL JACKO I don't see any signs of the seals, but it does look like there's a little more ice out there. I'm hoping there's still a couple openings for the seals to come out. Oh crap, it's, uh, really thick. I thought this was broke up ice, but I mean it was broke up ice but all re-froze. Ain't no way to get through this stuff. It's super thick but it's like, I mean you can see right through, it's like glass. Yeah, I think, uh, that might be it for seal hunting. I didn't have any luck here, but I'll check on the holes, see if there's any fish swimming around, any activity. Oh yeah, baits gone. So, the baits gone, that's a super good sign that there's fish around. Hoping they're down there still. Ice fishing is like the most simple thing ever 'cause all you need, is, you know, a stick, a hook and a freakin piece of line. And it's kinda the most fun I feel like, 'cause you can like see the fish and you're so close to it. I got my cured salmon eggs. Yeah, there's lots of those little tiny, we call them sticklebacks. And their all over in these lakes. You can't eat them, I mean, they're just like a nuisance almost but I'm hoping that's not what ate all my eggs last night. Oh (bleep) there's a big (bleep) trout down there. Oh (bleep), it's a nice rainbow, nice rainbow down there. Oh man, he's a, he's a beauty. Oh, got you (bleep) sucker. JOEL JACKO Oh yeah. Oh, yeah. And he looks good. A good eating size I would say. A little bigger would be nice but he's a keeper. I'm gonna call it a day. Getting a little cold. Might come back tomorrow and try again. It's good to know that there's fish in there. So, I think I'll head home and, uh, cook up my catch and that'll be it. One more adventure in the books. MARVIN AGNOT Well, we got our shelves Glyn. We'll just start putting some soil in this. GLYNDARIL I'll start on this one? MARVIN AGNOT Yeah. GLYNDARIL Okay. MARVIN AGNOT Okay, that's a lot of soil. You know, I never imagined becoming a gardener, I just seen it elsewhere in villages and it inspired me. It's just important to have your own garden and, uh, become more self-sufficient. Pour them right down the middle of the bed here and I'll just come along here behind you, and I'll just mix whatever in there. And, and then we'll plant. GLYNDARIL All right. MARVIN AGNOT Oh yeah, look at that Glyn. Marcella and Glyn and her family are really into this right here. Very good. GLYNDARIL Ready for some plants Unc. MARVIN AGNOT I'm ready Glyn. That's why I can see we're gonna be able to make this a success because of their involvement and what we are trying to contribute back to the community. GLYNDARIL My wife started these at home, these are green peppers. The vegetables that I'm looking forward to are the green peppers, the tomatoes and I may be a little biased to this one but the collard greens. MARVIN AGNOT The greenhouse is growing Glyn. I hope to see that this becomes a bigger and better part of our community. I see the rewards of what it can give back if we stick to it. GLYNDARIL Oh. MARVIN AGNOT Final step here Glyn. We. GLYNDARIL Woo! We got ourselves a garden. MARVIN AGNOT We got a success; we fulfilled our mission Glyn. Woo. Let's go eat. LOUISE MOSES Better start lining up. Who's first in line? STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG All right, let's do this. Line up. LOUISE MOSES Line. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG All right, right here. HAZEL STRASSBURG [inaudible] LOUISE MOSES Now pass it on. [inaudible] Cool, thank you. How do you say one? LOUISE MOSES [speaking Denaakke] K'ee?ekk'ee. HAZEL STRASSBURG [speaking Denaakke] K'ee?ekk'ee. LOUISE MOSES One. Ah, are you okay? LOUISE MOSES [speaking Denaakke] K'ee?ekk'ee, neteekk'e, tokk'ee. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG How we doing Wesley? We doing good, boss? How's it looking back there? LOUISE MOSES It's filling up. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG All right good. Well, let's all grab one piece each, go in and make a fire, huh? LOUISE MOSES Grab a block guys. HAZEL STRASSBURG I get this log. HAZEL STRASSBURG Best log of all time. HAZEL STRASSBURG Look at it, dad. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG What's wrong, Wes? LOUISE MOSES You want some? You need to help? STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Hey, all right, you need to learn how to work boy. LOUISE MOSES Hey. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Good job Wesley, happy guy. LOUISE MOSES Yeah. Early start, even if momma's helping you. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Time for me to replace my old, grungy hat. It's a really good feeling I think, like being able to make my own warm gear and stuff. So, these tails will go on the top of my hat. The tails kinda are a nice decoration and they also signify wealth. So, I'm gonna put three, not that I'm wealthy but I'm rich in family and love and time outside. This marten hat is more meaningful and special because we trapped the marten, I tanned the furs. This hats gonna keep me warm for years to come, which I think is the best way to respect the animal we trapped. Success out here really means like maintaining that relationship I have with the land 'cause the land provides for us. Done. You know, it's a lot of work. See how it feels. Yeah, it feels good. But it's a good lifestyle. This is the original indigenous fashion. JOEL JACKO I hardly ever get fresh trout now. But, hopefully after this outing, be a little more common occurrence 'cause now I know where they're at. It's half the battle, 'cause the other half's catching them. I missed the seal, but you know you learn what not to do. Like don't be shooting them with a twenty-two at, you know, from five-hundred feet (152 meters) away or whatever it is, but I mean, the whole thing was exciting too so, good learning experience. Oh yeah, pretty good. I don't want to brag or anything. To me it's a little bit sad that people aren't really hunting and stuff like they used to 'cause there's not a whole lot of this cultural significance kinda being passed down. JODY POTTS JOSEPH There's a lot of things that skipped a few generations because of colonization and trying to force assimilate our people. But there's people in our communities doing their part to reclaim our culture way of life and our identities. MARVIN AGNOT Now with to build the foundation for becoming self-sufficient. We're doing it all for our own benefit and for the benefit of others. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Our people been here for a long time and it's very important as the next generation moving up, that we continue on these traditions and cultures. JOEL JACKO Good dog, what are you doing, huh? This was like a whole epic journey I feel like to get to this point but, I mean I like it. It's, uh, it's, uh, it was kinda why you live out here. To be self-sustainable and self-sufficient, that's, that's very gratifying to me. [SNAP-IN] JODY POTTS JOSEPH We're using this box because it's the best way to set that trap, so the trigger will get sprung and it'll trap the animal. I need three marten for a hat and I need a new hat 'cause I'm, I borrowed my mom's beaver hat. So, my other hat will be destroyed after a couple more trips. That's what I'm hoping for. We're mostly trapping just to get enough furs so I can make us some more winter gear. This environment is pretty harsh, and this kind of gear will keep us from freezing or getting frostbite, so it's really important. These are fish fins, and they actually have some meat on them and their pretty, pretty stinky, so they'll really lure in the, um, the marten. We trap for animals in the winter, mostly because that's when their fur is the thickest and it's also when we can track animals in the snow and it's just the best time to trap. JAMEY JOSEPH How the traps, uh, work luring the marten is the bait in the back. You wire the bait to the back and, uh, it works out because it's in a box and the birds can't get to it or the mice or squirrels or what not. JODY POTTS JOSEPH All right, well I baited the last box. JAMEY JOSEPH Okay. These boxes make it quick and easy. A quick and easy set. Where if you come across tracks or a good place to set it up, doesn't take long to set one of these up. Oh, you smell that huh? JODY POTTS JOSEPH I think we're pretty much ready to go. I'm gonna go grab my parka so we can head out, okay? JAMEY JOSEPH All right. I'm gonna get geared up too. Right now, it's kinda hard to find any fresh sign because, uh, it, it snowed recently, so there's a lot of powder. We might have to break trail and, uh, do some trail clearing as well 'cause we'll get some down trees here and there. [END]