EVAN_STRASSBURG JAZMINE_AMODO_WHITE JOEL_JACKO JULIANA_AMODO_WHITE LOUISE_MOSES MARCELLA_AMODO_WHITE MARVIN_AGNOT STEVEN_TIG_STRASSBURG STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Damn. Sprung the snare. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Missed 'em. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Whatever it was. Something coming in this way. I set these snares for wolf, for some reason this year I'm noticing a lot more wolf tracks a lot closer into town. We've already found two dead moose within ten miles (16 kilometers) of town. Cows and calves that's our next generation's food. Wolves they're pretty much talking food right out of our mouths. An active wolf pack it's a key part of our ecosystem but such a large pack killing so many moose close to town, it's upon guys like me to keep these animals in check. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Well, the wolf pack came through, they came back down river but kinda true to my luck everywhere I've gone and set anything they've stayed away from that area. They're not coming into anything I'm setting. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Just continue trying, I guess. I'm out here looking for wolves but at the same time I'm also looking for a bull. Moose seasons open it's still a good opportunity for me to get some meat for the rest of the year. Kinda look like a bull moose right there. How its toes are split apart. There's definitely a cow and a calf in here but I think there's a third one, a bull also maybe. With the wolf pack moving up and down the river they're scaring off a lot of moose, they're not in the areas where we can easily access them. They just get into really tight, hard to get to areas. Lot of tracks, think positive. Well, I've been out here all day I'm not having any luck, no wolves, no moose. I don't wanna go empty handed but I'm starting to lose day light so it's about time I start heading home. Hey some ptarmigan. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Got one! It's not much but it's something. The kids like to eat this one. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Happy little blessing. Wouldn't mind if I got one more. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG I am a kule hunter. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Poor hunting. Haha. Kule is poor. Haha. JAZMINE AMODO WHITE Is this just a regular church service? MARCELLA AMODO WHITE Yeah. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE Make sure the dogs don't come in. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE This is the Protection of the Theotokos. Which is a Russian Orthodox church. This church was built in 1926, I believe. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE We've always been told that we have a strong spiritual bond here. Our church is the heart of this community. Every outsider that has visited our village the church just tends to always intrigue them. It literally calls them in. It's very important that our church still remains open, even if it's just a single person that comes up to church. A single person can pray for the entire community. So, we don't attend just for ourselves. Keeping a spiritual life is just as important as keeping our subsistence way of life. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE The morning minus tides are here. We wait all winter long for this time to get here. Me and my girls are gonna get the church prepped and ready then go out and hit up the minus tides see what goodies we can find. We're hoping for octopus. We should be back in time for. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE Our church service. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE Uncle Marvin is waiting for us. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE We don't want to keep him waiting. Good morning uncle. JAZMINE AMODO WHITE Hello uncle Marvin. MARVIN AGNOT Good morning, a beautiful day for us to go on this adventure. MARVIN AGNOT Are you guys happy? MARCELLA AMODO WHITE Excited. MARVIN AGNOT We gotta go an hour before the tide change. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE Awesome sounds good. MARVIN AGNOT I'll push this out. JAZMINE AMODO WHITE Hopefully we get lucky, if we get an Octopus my mom says she's going to teach me how to cook one up. JAZMINE AMODO WHITE And I'm super excited to learn. MARVIN AGNOT I'm very happy to be able to show Jaz and Julz my ability and my knowledge of the subsistence way of living. When I see the appreciation and being a part of their growth, man that's priceless. JAZMINE AMODO WHITE Hope we get lucky. I like to eat my octopus pickled that's my favorite way to eat octopus. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE You can cook it and eat it that way, some people can it and we also use it for halibut bait. Don't ever want anything to go to waste. MARVIN AGNOT I'm just gonna park the skiff here so it'll stay off the beach. You guys got the, got your hose? JAZMINE AMODO WHITE Yes. MARVIN AGNOT Hope we score. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE Haha, yeah. MARVIN AGNOT See the clam shells right there, is that a good sign? JAZMINE AMODO WHITE Yeah. MARVIN AGNOT Yeah. Well, here's our rock. I thought when we were back there, I'd seen these clams that look like a hole but. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE Yeah. There's usually is a big burrow right there. MARVIN AGNOT I thought that was. Yeah, let me take a gander. Let me see this hose here. The octopus like to live under rock. How we get the octopus out from under the rock is we stick the hose in there and you blow air in the hole and stir up and they'll come crawling out. Oh water. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE Don't feel anything squishy. MARVIN AGNOT Well, he's not home. Okay, well let's walk down there and check out the others. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE Sounds good. MARVIN AGNOT Okay, yeah. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE Still got some time. MARVIN AGNOT We'll get one. JOEL JACKO So, I got a stash of logs across the lake. When I cut these logs, I threw them on the ice and everything's melting now. So, I kinda need to get them off the ice before they fall through the ice, JOEL JACKO And I can't like, retrieve them. I got a couple projects I gotta finish at the house, I can't do that without lumber. Those logs are basically for siding my interior walls. There's no longer trees near the house so that's why I'm going miles away now to find these trees just for milling. These are a bunch the logs I cut about a week ago before it snowed. I don't actually remember how many logs I got but it looks like seven or eight. But I gotta try to tow them back with the sled and the snow machine is not really big enough to be, you know, towing logs around. I'll go ahead and give it a shot see how it goes. Ugh! Oh man. Agh! Heavier than I remember. Oh! Ugh! Oh man! I don't know this is pretty freaking heavy. Agh. Might be too much for the little tundra. I'm not, I'm not liking this so far. I mean it's gotta be three hundred pounds (136 kilograms). Here's nothing. About twenty feet (6 meters), three miles (4 kilometers) to go. I don't think this is going to work. JOEL JACKO This isn't even the steepest hill I have to go up. I have to figure out something else to do, I think. I'm like halfway home. Ugh! Agh! Oh, that's stuck. Ugh, If I was using a four wheel this wouldn't be a problem. There wasn't snow a week ago. I should've probably tried to get them out then. Ugh. I'm just gonna build my house out of hay. Agh. Ugh. All right. I can get the sled out, turn it around, I don't know if this is worth it. I've got like eight more logs out there. I definitely don't wanna do this again. I'm done hauling logs, I'll just go get the mill and I'll take it down to where the logs are, I'll just mill them in place. And I can haul just the boards, you know the usable lumber so think we'll go to plan B. MARVIN AGNOT There is a hole here I could, that's a good hole there. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE So, when he lets the hose go if there's a octopus is in there, he could. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE When the legs are moving around, it'll, you'll see movement on the hose. MARVIN AGNOT No disturbance. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE No fluctuation in the water. MARVIN AGNOT No, there's no disturbance I think he is not home. Well. MARVIN AGNOT There's a couple there we could walk down there. MARVIN AGNOT There was no octopus on these first couple rocks that I checked but, um, we'll just keep looking along the beach and hope we get an octopus. JAZMINE AMODO WHITE A bidarkies mom! MARVIN AGNOT You found one? JAZMINE AMODO WHITE There's big bidarkies. MARVIN AGNOT Oh, big bidarkies. Oh, those are really good to gnaw on. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE I got my knife. JAZMINE AMODO WHITE Oh, can I get it? MARVIN AGNOT There you go, you spotted it. Bidarkies are a part of our way of subsisting. MARVIN AGNOT The chitons that are on the beach stuck to the rock. Very tasty. Yeah, here you go fresh, fresh. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE May not have found octopus yet but were getting bidarkies. We're scoring regardless. Gathering food from the land as a family is very important. Very meaningful. JAZMINE AMODO WHITE I like to eat them raw. MARVIN AGNOT Yeah, that's the, right off the beach. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE Fresh right off the beach. MARVIN AGNOT It's an acquired taste but we love it. JAZMINE AMODO WHITE I call the tongue. JULIANA AMODO WHITE I want the tongue. MARVIN AGNOT You want the tongue? Haha! I'm so happy to see that our family tradition still goes on and how they still enjoy it because of how we practice our ways of living off the beach. Tasty? JAZMINE AMODO WHITE This is really good, I like it. MARVIN AGNOT We're gonna walk right over the top of this uh bar right here, there's a couple rocks right over there I say we go check. Nothing under that one? JAZMINE AMODO WHITE Hmm no. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE The roles of women, they've changed some. When I was growing up my chores were more so homebased. But nowadays there seems to be a lot more female interest in wanting to get out and explore and learn how to do other stuff. JULIANA AMODO WHITE I think I found a hole over here. JAZMINE AMODO WHITE That looks like a hole, actually. JULIANA AMODO WHITE Mommy, is this a hole? MARCELLA AMODO WHITE Do you know what to feel for? MARCELLA AMODO WHITE You're usually able to feel something squishy then you feel something just sticking to the hose. Oh, I think something's in there. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE It's not going in very far though. There probably was something in there at some point. MARVIN AGNOT Well, nice try. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE Being able to go out with my daughters, I hope that instills an empowerment in them, you know, don't be afraid of failing. Letting them know that girls could go out and do anything. MARVIN AGNOT Let's go back to the skiff and go check out. MARVIN AGNOT A couple other rocks before the tide change on us. JAZMINE AMODO WHITE Okay. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE Maybe we'll have better luck over there. MARVIN AGNOT I hope so, tides still low enough. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Nice night, might as well go take a ride. LOUISE MOSES Yeah. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Get away from the kids a little while. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG I like going out in the nighttime and checking my traps. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG The wolves they're a nocturnal animal, darkness gives me another chance of running into them on the trail. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Today, I'm going to bring Louise with me, I like to call her Lucky Lou. Lot of times when I'm having bum luck, I take her with me, she'll change my luck right around. Another cow moose. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG No doots. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Had some luck tonight. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Well, continue on I guess. LOUISE MOSES The growing wolf problem around Allakaket is pretty scary. You know we have kids walking to school and it's a danger for them. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Wolf is super smart. They're the apex predator out here in our woods. Going after wolf, it's not easy. Trying to go after an animal that specializes in how to get around without being detected. It is dangerous, we don't know what to expect out here. Let's go take a look. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG There's something right there. Oh, right there look. Got a wolverine. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Still alive. Get behind me, over here Louise. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG [speaking Central Denaakk'e] Enaa baasee'. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG This is good. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG If I can't catch teekkone. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Why not catch doyonh. LOUISE MOSES I'm not supposed to see any of this so I just gotta look away while he handles whatever he's doing. It's a really powerful animal, we're not supposed to be around when guys are working on the furs. In our tradition, we're just respectful of the men that do these types of things. If I want him to have luck, I know I'm not supposed to look or anything. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Okay. Might as well go get the machine. LOUISE MOSES Steven. LOUISE MOSES I don't know what I was thinking following you into the woods. LOUISE MOSES In the middle of the night. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Life's funny like that sometimes. LOUISE MOSES Too much trust in you. JOEL JACKO Woah. JOEL JACKO So, the sawmill looks like it's pretty much buried in slush and I'm worried that it's frozen to the ice, also getting this thing out of here is going to be a huge pain, I think. Man, this is a disaster. Looks like all the slush kinda melted into water and then refroze on top but underneath this little bit of ice is actually just water. I thought that the track was going to be frozen into the ground, but it actually might not be. Kick this log off of here it's actually just my test log. The main plan is to basically just get this out of here and get it moved over to where my stash of logs is. Because obviously can't mill here anyways. Sawmill its super heavy. The power head is the heaviest part, so I pretty much have to move the power head in one piece. Kinda more worried about my sled then I am the mill at this point. Ugh. Defiantly crushed the sled. I'm gonna pull the little feet off, make it a little light, a little easier to move. I think I'll probably have to make two trips, can't get any more on that trailer so, I'd like to move this track in one piece, but I don't think that's going to happen. Gotta get it out of here first. Ugh. Agh. Phew. So, this is a good reminder of why I have to get those logs out now and get the mill out because the ice is thawing out like super quick. And we barely have any ice to begin with. Once the ice does start to go it'll be gone in a matter of a couple days. So, I really gotta get everything done pretty soon. All right. I got, I got the mill out of the ice. I mean now all I gotta do is haul everything over, uh, to the new location. I'll run this down make one more trip I think with the tracks, and I think that'll be it and I can set it up start ripping boards. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE No luck on this big island, hopefully we'll have some luck on the smaller one. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE It took us a while last year to find them. MARVIN AGNOT I'm just gonna park down here so our skiff stays off the beach. MARVIN AGNOT You got the hose? JAZMINE AMODO WHITE Yes. MARVIN AGNOT Oh, cool like that. Well, we'll walk right over to see this rock right over on the point over here. JULIANA AMODO WHITE Yeah. MARVIN AGNOT Yeah, we're pretty close to this one. You want me to carry them? JAZMINE AMODO WHITE I got it. MARVIN AGNOT Hope we get one. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE Yeah. As long as rocks are showing then we have. MARVIN AGNOT We got hope! Nothing. Yeah, looks pretty quiet. Well, we'll just walk around and find those other rocks. Well, this is pretty big here, there's more rocks over there we can check. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE Oh, there's one right there! MARVIN AGNOT Oh, cool I see it. Do you see it? JAZMINE AMODO WHITE I see the leg. MARVIN AGNOT Oh, yeah. I can see his legs right there. We found one! Woo! Marcella seen it, looked right down and the same rock that I walked right by so I must need some new glasses. Yeah. I'm gonna throw that away so it has an easy way of climbing out. There you go you wanna get it? JAZMINE AMODO WHITE I can do it. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE You wanna stick the tip under that rock part just don't touch it though otherwise it's gonna sink. MARVIN AGNOT You got it, I'll look for another hole. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE Lot of small ones, yeah? JAZMINE AMODO WHITE They're tinky sized. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE It's a tiny one, enough for a meal though. MARVIN AGNOT Oh, yeah, that's enough for a meal. Plenty big. Go watch your mom, she'll show ya. MARVIN AGNOT Pretty soon you guys are going to be doing that too. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE Watching my brothers and my mom process an octopus on the beach is basically how I learned. If you watch it enough times, then you know what to do. Awesome, nice and clean now. MARVIN AGNOT There you go, good job, Mars. Way to go. Well, good job kids, I'm so happy, now you guys can have a good treat. Your fruits of your labor on a beautiful day. Now, we'll beat the time, as you can see the tide is coming in. We got the foam on the beach. MARVIN AGNOT We'll go make sure we can reach our anchor. As you see, tide came in and I just put a short anchor line. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE Sounds good. MARVIN AGNOT All right. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE Call this a successful day. Go ahead and head on home and be time for church. JOEL JACKO I got the last of the mill together. That was not smooth. I mean I had to get it stuck multiple times but I'm glad I got everything here. JOEL JACKO Get the mill set up, start ripping. It's time for the pain. I'm gonna try to stand this thing up now. All the weights on this end, so you're just basically man hand, like there's not another way to like lift this up. Huh, all right. So now I got, all I gotta do is put the blade on. I'm just gonna make sure everything's running so that, I don't have to mess with it tomorrow, you know if I need parts then I can grab them when I go home. But it was also on its side for a long time and that's not like great for motors so. Looks good. Yeah. I mean it's running. It's moving. I'll be back tomorrow, start ripping. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Oh, (bleep). STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG I caught a wolf somewhere. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG See this, this wreckage right here is from the, from my trap. See, I had my trap right here. Okay, he's dragging it down the trail. Might still have him. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Never ever want any animal that we hunt to suffer and so, I need to find it quickly. You wait right here, ma. I gotta go cruise across the river. You're good right there. LOUISE MOSES Okay. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG I'll be right back. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG I lost him. I thought that was the drag mark, that's not it though. Hey, right there! You see the eyes? Right there! STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG [speaking Central Denaakk'e] Enaa Baasee'. Thank you. That is not easy animal to catch. Truly, truly blessed. Truly blessed. Hopefully, you know, I got these wolves off the river now. A lot of times you get one of them and they're gonna stay off the river after that. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG They're not gonna come back to the area as much anymore. Beautiful black wolf. Look at his belly, full too. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG That is a moose killer for sure. Perfect wolf. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG [speaking Central Denaakk'e] Enaa Baasee'. I'll take good care of you. I got nothing but love and respect for the wolf. The way I'm gonna take care of it, the way I'm gonna handle it, it's all out of love and admiration for this animal. My brother, he was a big wolf hunter. You know, it took a lot to make that guy proud. I don't think I ever heard him say, you know, that he was proud of me or anything, but you know I feel like he'd be smiling, seeing that I'm finally actually having a little bit of luck. It wasn't for him with his hand on my shoulder right now. I have a lot of people�s hand on my shoulder right now, that aren't with us no more. A lot of people that you know I love that aren't here no more, and I like to think they're with me when I'm out in the woods. I gotta hurry up, my hunny's waiting. But this ain't nothing out of the normal for Louise. JOEL JACKO All right, it's time to get to work now. JOEL JACKO So, when I put these logs here, I mean there was like no snow, it was literally on ice and so, this is like all winters snow basically on top of them right now. I got my, all my logs ready to go. Ready to just kinda get rolled on to the mill. It'll be good to get these ripped up and get them home. And then I can keep building, finish the house. So, most of these logs I'm just making siding, so you'll probably get like maybe ten boards out of a log. Some of the off cuts was cut them up and use them for firewood. So, nothing really goes to waste. I kinda always forget how time consuming milling is. It's just all day 'cause all you're doing is just pushing this thing back and forth, back and forth. Right now, a lot that's going through my mind is like, what's a better way to finish my house then to mill all this lumber. There's gotta be a better way to do this. But there's not, I can't even get lumber out here if I wanted to right now. It is so expensive. One log down. Everything is much harder out here, but the reward is much greater also I feel like. Once you get this lumber on the walls and you get it sanded and stained, it looks so good. I will have a one of a kind house. All this pain and misery that I'm going through, at the end of the day you have story to tell, accomplished something. No, you're not out here nine to five, like nothing to show for it. Ugh, it's getting cold out. Man, we kinda lost the sunshine, the snow rolled in. You don't like the weather in Alaska, you wait ten minutes. So, I got, I'm like halfway right now. I got, uh, three logs to go. I want to get these logs done before this snow starts piling up. Afraid of that. JOEL JACKO I think I just snapped that blade. Oh yeah. Yep. Yeah, I see it's snapped right in half. These blades are pretty old, so they don't last too long. I'll switch another blade out, but I want to get these logs done before the snow start piling up. You gotta be careful when they snap 'cause they can, I mean they're pretty flimsy and they just want to kinda explode outwards 'cause it's spinning so fast. Cut you pretty good and I'm in the middle of nowhere, so. Luckily, you know, it didn't kinda come out towards me. It just kinda stayed inside the guard, which is good. Yeah, I think it fits, all right. So, I think with this lumber, I can basically finish a couple rooms in the house which means a lot. I am excited just to get back into the building part. This house, it means quite a bit to me because I've been working on it for so long. I had like zero money when I started building this house, and zero skill. I feel like it's molded me as a person kinda just 'cause of the blood, sweat and tears in that thing. Having a self sustainable house, it's a challenge and I do like the challenge. I don't want an easy life. I don't want a sheet rock house. I want a one of a kind house. I want a hard life. Oh, it's nice, the sun came back out. I'm gonna hook this trailer up and get outta here. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE Jaz, go get ready to put the octopus in, you gonna come and help. JAZMINE AMODO WHITE Yeah. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE So, the waters boiling, good you want to take the cover off as soon as I bring the octopus over. Take it off. And then we just let it boil. JAZMINE AMODO WHITE How long do you let it boil for? MARCELLA AMODO WHITE Um, I keep on coming it and testing it by poking it, just to see if the fork goes through. JAZMINE AMODO WHITE I'm excited. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE It almost feels like I should know a whole lot more being Alaska Native than I really do, but my mom was ashamed to be Alaska Native. I'm not ashamed to be Alaska Native, you know, I can sit there and say it proudly. But there's pieces of that history missing. There's not a lot of education there. Um, to me honestly, there is a confusion on what being Alaska Native, or you know, Alutiiq is. You know, I'm really happy for the teachers that we have now. They really pull to wanting to instill the native culture into our students and the kids, they sit quietly and listen. So, I'm going to bring it over to the table and we're gonna take it out. JAZMINE AMODO WHITE That's pretty. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE I'm not a hundred percent Alaska Native, I am also Filipino, and I practice Russian Orthodox. None of that is separate, it's just all a part of me. JAZMINE AMODO WHITE What changed the most since you were young? MARCELLA AMODO WHITE There's a whole lot more cultural diversity in the village. Starting with my dad, he brought the Filipino culture here. Did you know nobody ever ate rice before Papa came? Everybody ate potatoes only. JAZMINE AMODO WHITE Potatoes? MARCELLA AMODO WHITE Potatoes. That's what Momma said, they never had rice here. And now rice is like the main dish for everybody's food. Then Daddy came here, he's been here for eighteen years now. JAZMINE AMODO WHITE Did Daddy have to change some of his ways when he came down here? MARCELLA AMODO WHITE Oh yeah, it's like a culture shock for him but at the same time, it was a good one. This lifestyle was ready for him before he even knew it. And not only is our culture gonna stay here but you know, you see how he is so gung ho to sit there and like share it with everybody else. JAZMINE AMODO WHITE So, do you think the mixing of other cultures is a good thing? MARCELLA AMODO WHITE It's a very good thing. It's taking our light here and then shining it elsewhere. Want to check the time, it should be almost time for church. JAZMINE AMODO WHITE It's five thirty. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE Oh yeah, we definitely need to get dressed and head out, head up to church. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Heck of a night. EVAN STRASSBURG Geeze. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Got that one doyonh in a snare and then this guy in a trap. It's exactly what we need for potlatch. When we lose a person in the community, we have a memorial potlatch in order to honor that person. I already told you Uncle Hank, I got a doyonh for him, he was real happy. You know their daughter passed away, so they're having, your mom's niece. Auntie Shea, remember her? Cousin Shea, yeah, they're having potlatch for her too, so. Part of our potlatch is a cloth dance. We take a lot of hanks of cloth and we tie them together in a big circle in our community hall. Then we tie these doyonh and teekkone's on there. The men grab the doyonh teekkone furs and we shake them as we dance around and sing. You know they might be dead and gone but they still got spirit. When we tie these on to the cloth and we shake them, this wolf and that wolverine their spirit is in the circle dancing with us when we shake them on the cloth. That's why you shake them hard, you shake them hard like they're running. And then also, the loved ones that we lost are gonna be dancing in that circle with us also. So that's the significance of the cloth dance. You know, that's something that our people have always done. Thousands and thousands of years, our people have always had potlatch for the loved ones. And they've always had doyonh and teekkone tied to the cloth. This powerful, powerful tradition that we carry on, we don't want to lose that one. So someday it's gonna be upon you to go out here and try and get this types of stuff for potlatch. Someday I'll teach you how to trap wolf. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG [speaking Central Denaakk'e] Enaa baasee' Teekkone. EVAN STRASSBURG [speaking Central Denaakk'e] Enaa baasee' Teekkone. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG [speaking Central Denaakk'e] Enaa baasee' Doyonh. EVAN STRASSBURG [speaking Central Denaakk'e] Enaa baasee' Doyonh. JOEL JACKO Tracker dog, what are you doing? What are you doing? Well, I managed to get the sawmill back into my bay. I got my boards all ripped and back home. It was a good productive day. Now I got, uh, you know, I got enough lumber to kind of finish a couple things around the house which is good. Maybe a dog house. Huh? What do you think, we need a dog house? At least you got a house, you got a whole house. Now I'm gonna get these inside and then, uh, basically I can just start my next project. JOEL JACKO There aren't many elders really left out here, JOEL JACKO So there's not a lot of technique being passed down. So now I'm out here just kinda figuring it out on my own. I feel like I'm just learning stuff all the time. MARCELLA AMODO WHITE Through the prayers of our holy fathers, oh Lord Jesus Christ our God, have mercy on us. Amen. It's important for me to teach our kids. Taking them out on the beach, even before they walk. The subsistence way of life is very normal for them. Now and ever and unto ages of ages of Amen. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Once I'm done skinning this wolf, I got to pay ultimate respect. I need to put its carcass out someplace way out in the woods where no one else is gonna go. Nice open country. This is the kind of country that he loved right here. This wolf needs its last meal, I almost forgot, got to put fat in its mouth. Don't want to send him off with an empty belly. You know, I'm grateful that I have the knowledge to go out here and do these types of stuff. It's the types of stuff I seen my dad do growing up. Type of stuff I seen my grandparents do growing up. You know it started way off in the woods in a nomadic lifestyle. Our people been here for a long time, and they figured out a lot of stuff. No place that's gonna to bring me closer to the creator or whatever brought us upon this earth than being out there in the woods. [SNAP IN] JOEL JACKO The good thing about setting up on the ice is that you already have a flat working surface. I think the track lengths are six feet (1 meter), two of those so twelve feet (3 meters). I'll just need twelve feet (3 meters) of working surface. Trying to make sure the rail is straight and flat, which it is not. 'Cause if the rail's off, basically you're gonna, the mill is going to follow the rail. So, it'll make all your boards crooked if your rail is crooked. It's sitting on something here. What's it sitting on? It's sitting on a screw. That's why it's not fricking straight. Screws in the way. There we go.