JAMEY_JOSEPH JODY_POTTS_JOSEPH JOEL_JACKO JOHN_PINGAYAK LIANA_PINGAYAK LOUISE_MOSES NICOLE_PINGAYAK PANITA_PINGAYAK REGINA_MARY_PINGAYAK_SIMON STEVEN_TIG_STRASSBURG TERESA_PINGAYAK TERESA PINGAYAK Some people come out here and see nothing. But there's food on the land you just got to know where to find �em. NICOLE PINGAYAK Hey! Hey! Fan out! Fan out, left right! TERESA PINGAYAK Use your twenty twos! Woo! PANITA PINGAYAK Should've shot 'em. TERESA PINGAYAK My name is Teresa Pingayak. TERESA PINGAYAK My Cup'ik name is Amitatugaq. I live here in Chevak. My family lives off the land and subsisted off the land. Where we are this is my world, the tundra. Three of my daughters are here. Panita is the one that's pulling my sled, the chariot. Liana and then Nicole has my granddaughter, that came down from Fairbanks. It's so nice to be out with all of you girls. They're calling me their precious cargo and that, that's special. LIANA PINGAYAK I want that crane. PANITA PINGAYAK They are over there on the next hill. LIANA PINGAYAK We'll just stay on the sides of them. NICOLE PINGAYAK You shoot this side I'll be on this side. LIANA PINGAYAK I'll be on this side. Okay. TERESA PINGAYAK Lot of memories that I have with my children are when we were out together and I take them by the hand and I will take, take them out to the tundra. LIANA PINGAYAK Let's go get 'em. JODY POTTS JOSEPH James! JODY POTTS JOSEPH I found tracks. The bear was over here. JODY POTTS JOSEPH So, I was looking around here and look, there's one track and then I looked, and I think it went straight out there. And then I saw these two big tracks. JODY POTTS JOSEPH So, it took off right when I pulled up and got home. JAMEY JOSEPH Probably that same one that was over in Brady's yard. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Oh yeah, that same one we saw last year. JAMEY JOSEPH Yeah. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Little one. JAMEY JOSEPH That kept coming around in the middle of the night you know. JODY POTTS JOSEPH This bear has become a nuisance bear and the reason I say that is because this bear is brave enough to come into a yard with sixteen barking sled dogs just to dig out a tote of traps. Hi mama. Here let me see your babies. Yeah, they all look good. New litter of puppies they're just like a week old. Don't wanna anything happen to them. Huh, little guy? Little sled dog pup. Hopefully he'll take me to Nome one day. Usually having a dog team in your yard can kind of detour bears from coming around. But not on this case so we're gonna have to be really careful. Since we live out in the woods, we basically cohabitate with things of nature. We all just try to be respectful of each other until a line is crossed. If someone's safety is in jeopardy, then we have to take action. LOUISE MOSES So, we're gonna try to get this one. I don't know if it's dead enough. Hoping. LOUISE MOSES Woo! STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Be careful. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Hard hat area. It's gonna be a good sized fire, I think. Louise and I are gonna be going duck hunting. The geese and ducks usually like the land on a little bit of water. We're gonna go and burn some of the snow off and make a spot for the geese or ducks to come and sit. We have a big family, we got seven kids. And there's a lot of us inside the house so it's, it's hard to find some alone time, some quite alone time with each other. Pretty deep out here. Actually, should hand me that axe. Check this ice while I'm down there. LOUISE MOSES Be careful don't go too close. You see how it's caving in on the other side. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG I'm okay. LOUISE MOSES It's dangerous look it's caving in on that side it could do that on this side. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG That's why I don't let you watch me do stuff. Everything I do is dangerous. LOUISE MOSES I met Steven when I was about eight or nine years old. We had, uh, squirt guns and my cousin squirted him and was like �Oh no!� He just squirted the new kid, but Steven was really fine with it. He came out with his own squirt gun and we had a squirt gun fight. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Woo! LOUISE MOSES I love the way Steven keeps things interesting, we're able to go to different places, try different things. It's a lot of fun with him. You can hear water trickling. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Yeah, it's pouring down right here. Sending smoke signals. The geese are here. See it's already spreading ashes there. It's doing what it's supposed to be doing. So, let's get to work on the blind. LOUISE MOSES Whoa. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Ope, watch out. One of the better blinds we've built. I don't think anything's gonna see us if we get down. Anything that way or that way. Pop, pop, pop. Ope. It's kinda like a date night right here. We don't have no movie theater, we don't have no restaurants, this is way more than a movie theater will ever be. More than a restaurant, you know. Me anyway, I'm pretty sure Louise feels the same way, right? LOUISE MOSES I enjoy this, golly good to be out here. NICOLE PINGAYAK You can hear the ptarmigan. Yeah. They're all taunting us. PANITA PINGAYAK Think they're over there on the next hill. TERESA PINGAYAK There's these places we call TERESA PINGAYAK Lavngaliyaraq. TERESA PINGAYAK Some areas where the birds travel to that's the best place to catch some birds. Lie down. Get on the ground. LIANA PINGAYAK I hear more. My mom used to go hunting all the time. I was her retriever. Mom was always smart. Smart with hunting. Oh, that's a good one! Do it! Do it! Come on! Well, that's just the warmups. Warmups of the year. TERESA PINGAYAK Girls, what's your observation? NICOLE PINGAYAK They're coming this way. TERESA PINGAYAK Yeah, they're coming down from the tundra there. LIANA PINGAYAK Let's keep moving up and I'll, I'll just ride around. TERESA PINGAYAK Okay. Just for, uh, experience. They have to come out. Experience, learn and do things because they can remember better. NICOLE PINGAYAK There's a few of them over there. LIANA PINGAYAK I'm gonna try to move a little bit closer. PANITA PINGAYAK Oh. PANITA PINGAYAK She's going to shoot! [COMMERCIAL BREAK] LIANA PINGAYAK I got that one. TERESA PINGAYAK So, Liana, you got one huh? LIANA PINGAYAK Yeah. TERESA PINGAYAK Yeah, okay. NICOLE PINGAYAK Heck, yeah, man that's so awesome. TERESA PINGAYAK When I become like ninety two years old, I've always said this. TERESA PINGAYAK Out of the way. By the time I'm that age I wanna still be able to move around doing things that I love to do, especially going out to the tundra. TERESA PINGAYAK I haven't been behind driving the snow machine for. TERESA PINGAYAK Many years. TERESA PINGAYAK You got to push it. Okay. TERESA PINGAYAK I'll come back. TERESA PINGAYAK I saw a ptarmigan over there. JODY POTTS JOSEPH So, there's some blood right there. Right here, here's some blood. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Quite a significant amount. Jamey and I got word that this bear. JODY POTTS JOSEPH was in someone else's yard eating food out of their freezer, and they actually got a shot off. There's a lot of blood in here. There's a blood trail. Sometimes it takes them a while. You can have a really good hit and it could bleed a lot, but it will live for a long time they have something about their adrenalin, their heart will keep pumping. We have a responsibility to give our best effort in tracking them and finishing the animal off. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Quite a bit of blood here. These folks lost the blood trail. They spent a good part of the day looking for this bear and weren't able to find it and sometimes it happens because we're dealing with nature. And so, the blood that I've been seeing so far is dry and it's hard to track. And I see tracks here. You don't even wanna be out here tracking it do you? JAMEY JOSEPH Yeah. It's dangerous tracking going after a wounded bear right away it's unpredictable and it's starving. So, well maybe not anymore, got into the freezer so. JODY POTTS JOSEPH My husband is a very experienced Koyukon man. There's times I really need to listen to his good sense and not let my wild adventurous side take hold. Well, I guess we'll just go find a good place to stake out and watch for it, huh? JAMEY JOSEPH Yeah. JOEL JACKO All right. Tracker, don't. JOEL JACKO These are my logs. Last of my logs for the dock. Cut them green because they last longer in the water basically. JOEL JACKO Hopefully this all works I've never built a dock before. Oh man, that is heavy. (bleep). I got a new dock's been on my radar the last year. I probably should've parked closer. Last fall we had a pretty big storm. The water came up higher than it normally does, and it washed the old dock out. I came up with this brilliant plan to build a dock in the ice. Normally I probably wouldn't build a dock in winter. The reason I'm doing it now is so I figured it'd be easier to chip through the ice then it would be to wade through the water. This is gonna be really fun. The first thing to do is to figure out exactly my posts need to go. Now with all the snow it's hard to tell where I need to start the dock cause I can't see the high water mark. One step at a time. I don't think this is something that's really been attempted out here before, building a dock in winter. It's much deeper than I anticipated. I can't really see where the high and the low water mark are. Man, this sucks. And twenty more holes to go. I mean, it's a little bit overwhelming, it's like full on freezing blowing snowing winter. This might not have been the greatest idea. [COMMERCIAL BREAK] JOEL JACKO What am I doing? What do you think, Tracker? A week ago when I was thinking all this out it was springtime temperatures everything was melting thing the lake was getting slushie. That's why I was like I should build this dock now before everything thaws out and I can kind of utilize the ice but now it's like this is the most winter we've had all year. I don't know Tracker, I don't know! We're the only idiots making docks in the winter that's for sure. You gotta roll with the punches, it's Alaska. I'll use this guy as kinda a depth gage. Oh man, these things are heavy. Defiantly on rocks down there that's good. I'm not somebody that plans. But I have a will and where there's a will there's a way. If there's something I wanna do I'm gonna do it even if I don't have a plan. I'm just gotta figure out along the way. It's like a little adventure every time. And it's fun and you know what at the end just hope it's gonna be functional and if it's not then I'll redo it I'll fix, you know, I'll fix it along the way as I go. Probably should've brought a level with me. All right I got all, all my holes done, now I can concentrate on getting the logs all shored up and plum and square and level. And that's what's next! TERESA PINGAYAK So, Panishi. TERESA PINGAYAK I'm gonna go up there and sit. They'll think I'm a swan in my white coat. It'll come around. I'll be here hiding. PANITA PINGAYAK Yeah. TERESA PINGAYAK Hunting is not a sport for us it's something that we have to do in order to have food we gotta go out and hunt. Oh. Okay. TERESA PINGAYAK Ooh, ooh, there's birds that way. Maybe those are white front Regina. REGINA MARY PINGAYAK SIMON My name is Regina Mary Pingayak Simon. REGINA MARY PINGAYAK SIMON I am John and Teresa's granddaughter. I moved out of Chevak first or second grade. So, the tundra makes me feel like a little kid again. Remember we used to say hi to the planes? TERESA PINGAYAK Oh, yeah. REGINA MARY PINGAYAK SIMON Yeah. TERESA PINGAYAK Yeah, we'd wave our. REGINA MARY PINGAYAK SIMON We'd go like this. And we'd say hi to them. TERESA PINGAYAK I haven't heard shots coming from Panita. LIANA PINGAYAK Pretty birds. LIANA PINGAYAK When spring's here. It just brings me back to the land and brings me back to the tundra. Grew up with eight sisters and never once were we told that we can't do anything. This is why we know how to hunt. PANITA PINGAYAK Right there! Right there you, see? LIANA PINGAYAK You see something? TERESA PINGAYAK Are you shooting a bird? She got it! Yeah, Panishi! NICOLE PINGAYAK She got it! LIANA PINGAYAK I'm feeling it now woo! TERESA PINGAYAK Woo! Ooh, look at that girls, oh my goodness. Wow. All right. Let's go get some more. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG [speaking Central Denaakk'e language] Tseek'aa?, no haa? tee'oyh. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG I'll give you goose guts if you bring me luck dotson'. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Bring me some luck dotson', we'll feed ya. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG I'll pluck them right now right here and I'll leave you the guts. We put some decoys in here. LOUISE MOSES Are they high enough for the wind to reach them you think? STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Oh, they should be. I swear. LOUISE MOSES Those ducks look real. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG To the geese this is gonna look like a muddy area next to some water. They'll say, Hey look there's some mud, ducks they see the water you see how that works. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG These geese when they spot anything out of the ordinary, they're gonna veer off they won't even come close enough to give you a shot. Damn nice day. LOUISE MOSES Really. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG So, it is pretty crucial for us to be well hidden and not be noticeable. Damn. LOUISE MOSES Thought I heard something. But I guess not just the wind. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Way back. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG He is coming over. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Right there over the willows. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Can't shoot unless he's out this way though. Coming right over us. [COMMERCIAL BREAK] STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Is he coming back? LOUISE MOSES I forgot to take my gun off safety, it's been too long. I pulled the trigger and just nothing. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG My gun broke. LOUISE MOSES What? STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Son of a bitch. LOUISE MOSES Oh. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Look at that. This was broken right here. Supposed to connect the rails on my shotgun, slide this, but they broke off and it's not connected anymore. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Well, I'm gonna try and call them in for you. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG And you'll do the shooting. LOUISE MOSES No pressure, gosh. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Got seven kids relying on you. LOUISE MOSES Yeah. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG And me. LOUISE MOSES A few years ago, me and Steven we seemed like we were doing okay, you know, living a subsistence lifestyle. So, we took ourselves off any financial help from the government and from the tribe. It's hard, you know, learning to do a traditional lifestyle is something we're pushing for. I know we're doing good now, but I'm sure we could do a lot better. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG With a lucky shot a pot of soup could fall from the sky. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Right there! Coming right down! Right there. Right here, right here. LOUISE MOSES It's gone. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Yeah. LOUISE MOSES Well, that got exciting for a while. JOEL JACKO Gah. JOEL JACKO Oh, man. JOEL JACKO That'll wake you up. JOEL JACKO I got all my holes punched through the ice. Everything is lined up. Oh, my pole fell over, what the. My goal is basically, get all my posts in the hole and like kind of let them freeze into the ice. Okay Tracker, straight? Huh? Then I'll have like a very ridged structure to build off of. JOEL JACKO Let's frickin' screw it together. Pretty small. That's okay though. It's just temporary. While I was doing this, cause there was already water, I basically have to build this part on the ground and then like float it into position and then sink it. That was at least my justification for doing this. Okay, the weight of all this is just gonna keep it in place. This is all gonna have to get filled up rocks but obviously, I can't even see rocks right now so for now, gonna put the permanent poles in there. So, I got the braces in and I got it so it won't rock this way. So, I took the braces off. Now I can basically start building back, 'cause now I have something ridged to work off of 'cause now everything's super solid. To me this is fun. It's all a little bit tricky. A little bit of math. Little bit of imagination. Little bit of weather. Good Alaska building. I got all my posts in. I got one little section of the frame of the deck on. So, now I need to kind of lock all these guys in and then I can basically just continue with the framing of the decking and then put the actual decking on. Put some cross braces in there. Call it a day. JODY POTTS JOSEPH See what we see. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Generally speaking, our people, the H�n don't really hunt bears. JODY POTTS JOSEPH It's actually taboo for us to eat bear so, we don't hunt or pursue bears. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Except in this situation where there's a nuisance bear that's jeopardizing the safety of our community. So, here's some bear poop. This is definitely its terrain. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Should we just go back here on the trail we cut out? JAMEY JOSEPH Yeah, let's check it out. JODY POTTS JOSEPH These are claw marks up and down both of these trees and a couple back here. JODY POTTS JOSEPH We're in bear country. JAMEY JOSEPH You're gonna check out the trail where it's been coming in? JODY POTTS JOSEPH Yeah. JODY POTTS JOSEPH I'll see you after a while. JAMEY JOSEPH Yeah. JAMEY JOSEPH If I hear you shoot, I'll go. JAMEY JOSEPH I'll go back there. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Same. If I hear you shoot, I'll come back. JAMEY JOSEPH Okay, okay. JODY POTTS JOSEPH So, Jamey can stay where he can stay where he has a really clear, open vantage point. Basically, right in that path where the bear had been running. JAMEY JOSEPH Wind is not in our favor now. JAMEY JOSEPH Wind shifted. It's blowing that way. JAMEY JOSEPH There's still a chance it come up behind me though. JAMEY JOSEPH I've had it happen before. JAMEY JOSEPH Bear come up right behind me like 20 feet (6 meters). JAMEY JOSEPH Peeking out behind a tree. JAMEY JOSEPH Always gotta be looking over your shoulder. JODY POTTS JOSEPH I decide to see if I can't get this bear moving, maybe towards Jamey. JODY POTTS JOSEPH You can see the bear tracks right there. JODY POTTS JOSEPH I'm gonna head this way and then backtrack. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Towards Jamey. JODY POTTS JOSEPH I'm glad I'm wearing a bright green scarf. JODY POTTS JOSEPH And my black hoodie, 'cause. JODY POTTS JOSEPH He might think my black hoodie is a bear. JAMEY JOSEPH I wish she didn�t do that. [COMMERCIAL BREAK] JODY POTTS JOSEPH Had a lot of bear sign. JAMEY JOSEPH Yeah. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Yeah. JAMEY JOSEPH The direction you came back from. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Uh huh. JAMEY JOSEPH I had no idea you were going down there. JAMEY JOSEPH I thought you were going back here. JODY POTTS JOSEPH I did. JAMEY JOSEPH But you came back from that direction. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Cause then I went that way. JAMEY JOSEPH Yes. JAMEY JOSEPH But the only thing is. JAMEY JOSEPH Where am I looking? Where am I sitting? JAMEY JOSEPH If I was firing, I'd be firing, in that direction. JAMEY JOSEPH I had no idea you were coming back from that way. JODY POTTS JOSEPH That's why I waived my green scarf. JAMEY JOSEPH Okay, okay. JAMEY JOSEPH Okay. JODY POTTS JOSEPH My husband is right a lot of times. We're still learning from each other. You know, there's times where he can listen to my good sense and not go out on dangerous ice. And there are times where I shouldn't be running out through the woods looking for a bear. JODY POTTS JOSEPH It'll be dark soon so we're gonna. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Start heading back home, huh? JAMEY JOSEPH Yeah. JODY POTTS JOSEPH You know, hopefully this bear learned its lesson and won't be coming back around again. Maybe this bear is cross the river somewhere hopefully living its best life. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG They're a little high. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Just out of range. Wait until it's just right. Wait until you see their little feet just dangling. Louise pretty much stays home most of the winter watching the kids while I'm out doing all my trapping and what not in the woods. I got to give her a break and get her out to the woods and enjoy it. She enjoys all this just as much as I do. LOUISE MOSES It's gonna be a willow, a wreath. Start weaving in some fake flowers and I'll bring it to the cemetery on Memorials Day. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Hey, right there they are, couple ducks. I can probably get one shot off. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Go ahead. Go ahead. LOUISE MOSES Oh, man. Waited too long. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG You know, it's never really easy out there. It gets easier and easier the more you do it, but it's never really easy. Personal survival is just doing what I have to do to get my family through, through the next week. LOUISE MOSES I don't know if anything else is gonna fly over. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Yep. LOUISE MOSES Should we call it soon? STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG All right. LOUISE MOSES I just seen a muskrat. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Shoot that ice. LOUISE MOSES Shoot that ice? STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Shoot that ice. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG That will wake him up. There, down there. He's right there floating, see him? LOUISE MOSES Off safety. You ready? STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Got him. LOUISE MOSES Was that it? LOUISE MOSES Don't see it twitching or anything. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG That was a stick. LOUISE MOSES Nailed a stick. I figured, didn't see no movement after I shot it. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Good practice. LOUISE MOSES Oh, man. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Bit of excitement for our trip home. LOUISE MOSES Goodbye blind, that was fun. TERESA PINGAYAK I'm glad you're back. It's here today. TERESA PINGAYAK [speaking foreign language] So Quyana Pingay Taiyuumaluten Ernerpak. JOHN PINGAYAK I was ready to, uh, stay home and relax. Let's go a little bit further down and see how, how the birds are doing. TERESA PINGAYAK Ooh. LIANA PINGAYAK There's a lot of birds flying today. Gonna try to make myself blend in. My plan is to shelter up here using the grass from the tundra. TERESA PINGAYAK Is that my nice pan? JOHN PINGAYAK Yes. TERESA PINGAYAK That's the one, that's my favorite pan. JOHN PINGAYAK I'll clean it up when I get home. TERESA PINGAYAK You better scrub it good. JOHN PINGAYAK Yeah. LIANA PINGAYAK Oh. [speaking foreign language] TERESA PINGAYAK Oh, look, they got one! JOHN PINGAYAK Ah! TERESA PINGAYAK Okay, okay. Regina look, you see that? REGINA MARY PINGAYAK SIMON Yeah. TERESA PINGAYAK Okay, I want you to get on the snow machine and go by the bird. If you can take it, take it. Go, get on the snow go. Go. She gotta do it, she gotta learn how. Look what she did, smart girl. LIANA PINGAYAK It's still alive somewhere. Oh! [COMMERCIAL BREAK] LIANA PINGAYAK Go ahead, Regina. REGINA MARY PINGAYAK SIMON A good hunting spot, huh? Yay. JOHN PINGAYAK Yeah. TERESA PINGAYAK Told you. Look at that. TERESA PINGAYAK That's a Neqleq. Neqleq. REGINA MARY PINGAYAK SIMON Neqleq. TERESA PINGAYAK Our first Pingayak goose for the spring. All right, oh, geez. JOHN PINGAYAK Oh. TERESA PINGAYAK Oh, darn. Look at them. REGINA MARY PINGAYAK SIMON Oh. TERESA PINGAYAK Oh, (bleep). Okay. Go to Liana, Liana. LIANA PINGAYAK Get the snow go. REGINA MARY PINGAYAK SIMON Bring the snow machine! NICOLE PINGAYAK Oh, we're gonna go get it! Right there, you see it? REGINA MARY PINGAYAK SIMON Yeah. NICOLE PINGAYAK I'm out. NICOLE PINGAYAK See if you can get it. NICOLE PINGAYAK Go! REGINA MARY PINGAYAK SIMON Get, get over here, come on. TERESA PINGAYAK Oh, look at Regina chasing it. NICOLE PINGAYAK Grab the thing. REGINA MARY PINGAYAK SIMON Yah! Yeah. JOHN PINGAYAK Oh. LIANA PINGAYAK Yeah, she got it, yay! REGINA MARY PINGAYAK SIMON Dang, I need to get in shape. I, I tried to throw my glove at it, I was like. NICOLE PINGAYAK Liana's bird. She hit it. TERESA PINGAYAK Awesome. TERESA PINGAYAK [speaking foreign language] Uqamaunani Taw. JOHN PINGAYAK [speaking foreign language] Yaa, Uquriuq JOEL JACKO It is cold today. Ugh. So, I'm gonna start the last little supports for the decking, then I can do the decking and cut these things off. If I don't freeze to death first. Wow, that's amazing! Look at that! Every log that I gathered used to be a tree and every tree is different and I'm trying to butt up square materials to round materials, that's a challenge. Building like this is something that I'm pretty familiar with because it's basically how I built my whole house. Let's do some decking. Oh. So I got the, uh, most of the docks done, all that's left is the decking. I got ten footers (3 meters), but I only need five, five foot (1 meter) lengths I gotta rip everything in half. And then basically just start hammering them on. I got just enough lumber for that amount of dock, so hopefully I'm not short but kind of need to be pretty precise on my cuts so I'm not burning boards here. The Taltsiine Clan here, which is like the Water Clan, I mean it's true. We rely on the water for, you know, transportation, and fishing, and hunting, and everything. As soon as your bay where your boat is thaws out and breaks up and you can get that boat in the water. That's like summertime I feel like, like that is the start of summer. TERESA PINGAYAK We know how to live that city life, we can. But when we got to the city, we lose a little part of us. JOEL JACKO What do you think, Tracker? You ready for summer? Do a little swimming? TERESA PINGAYAK We are a people in this vast land in Alaska. Everyone has a part in this world. JODY POTTS JOSEPH With that bear around, it's important reminder that we need to stay on top of our spring cleaning and they're gonna be starting in the next week, crawling out of their doghouse. Special delivery. So, it's important to have these puppies put away. Welcome home, Corley. TERESA PINGAYAK When you're a child, when you first open your eyes to your surroundings. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Ambush! Get 'em! TERESA PINGAYAK When you see your home. To me, I never lost the love for the tundra. That's my first love that's always in my heart. TERESA PINGAYAK [speaking foreign language] Nunanirpak, nunanirqapiareluni. Up'nerkami waten. NICOLE PINGAYAK Check it ma. TERESA PINGAYAK Oh. Are you kidding? I am a Cup'ik and I live out here in Alaska. You know, we all have a place to go, and this is where I am. This is my place to go. [COMMERCIAL BREAK] [SNAP IN] LIANA PINGAYAK Woo. REGINA MARY PINGAYAK SIMON Dang. REGINA MARY PINGAYAK SIMON Is this your first time seeing this? NICOLE PINGAYAK Yeah. REGINA MARY PINGAYAK SIMON Mine too. JOHN PINGAYAK This is a really good find. Either bowhead or grey whale. TERESA PINGAYAK [speaking foreign language] Qangvaq una wani tangellruyiu? JOHN PINGAYAK [speaking foreign language] Merkaba q piqarraarcilluku. TERESA PINGAYAK Do you remember last summer Typhoon Merbok, and this land, the ocean came in and this is the result of what came in. JOHN PINGAYAK It's about ten miles (16 kilometers) from the Bering Sea. REGINA MARY PINGAYAK SIMON Oh, look a fox. LIANA PINGAYAK You see the fox? JOHN PINGAYAK Yeah. TERESA PINGAYAK You see these seem like gnaw mark. Maybe that's what that fox is just coming back to. What you think girls? Look that might be the fox? Oh, look. NICOLE PINGAYAK Oh, wow. TERESA PINGAYAK There's a space in there. Your lunch is there, dinner's there, breakfast is there, and your home is right there. JOHN PINGAYAK Cut it out on here. Ah. When it thaws, I'm gonna try to salvage the bones so I can do art. NICOLE PINGAYAK Fox is just waiting for us to leave. REGINA MARY PINGAYAK SIMON Yeah. NICOLE PINGAYAK We should probably head out. Yeah. LIANA PINGAYAK Yeah. Cool Dad. REGINA MARY PINGAYAK SIMON Yeah. NICOLE PINGAYAK That's awesome. TERESA PINGAYAK Okay, what else can we go find?