GLYNDARIL HAZEL_STRASSBURG JAMEY_JOSEPH JAZMINE_AMODO_WHITE JEVAUGHN_JOSEPH JODY_POTTS_JOSEPH JOEL_JACKO MARVIN_AGNOT SEAN_GOEBEL STEVEN_TIG_STRASSBURG JODY POTTS JOSEPH You guys got extra ammo, knives? JEVAUGHN JOSEPH Yeah JODY POTTS JOSEPH All your stuff? JEVAUGHN JOSEPH Got tea and water, everything we need. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Good. My son and nephew just showed up at our camp and told me that they heard there's caribou crossing up in the high country, so we're gonna head out that way and see if we find any caribou. When the caribou come, you drop everything else, and you go. We're gonna keep going up over the mountain to that really big rock on top of that first hill. The caribou migration route goes right in front of that rock. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Keep moving, okay? JEVAUGHN JOSEPH Yeah JODY POTTS JOSEPH See what we can bring home. It's go time. JODY POTTS JOSEPH I took you guys both out here a few times when you were younger. JODY POTTS JOSEPH It's a little cold and windy so, we'll stay up there as long as we can. JODY POTTS JOSEPH I'm really happy to have my nephew and my son with us and it's really important to share the knowledge that I received from my family about hunting, about our traditional way of life and about our culture. SEAN GOEBEL Wow. It seems like it would take longer to get up there. JEVAUGHN JOSEPH Yeah, just straight up. SEAN GOEBEL But we got up here pretty far, fast. JODY POTTS JOSEPH All of these kids are really eager and want to learn this stuff. SEAN GOEBEL Jody is showing me how to traditionally find animals, find caribou, hunt them, honor them, showing me our trails that our ancestors been walking on for centuries. Looks like they came up here to eat some popcorn look at the view. JEVAUGHN JOSEPH The first time I went caribou hunting was with Jody, there's definitely still more things I need to learn in order to do it so let's get to it. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Did you see anything? JEVAUGHN JOSEPH No, nothing. JODY POTTS JOSEPH They'll be nothing then they'll be a thousand. JOEL JACKO Well, we got a little bit of snow, I think I might just go for a little walk. Do a little small game hunting, see what I can find. JOEL JACKO Moose hunting doesn't open up for a couple more weeks. JOEL JACKO So the only think to really hunt right now is like, you know, small birds and rabbits and stuff so, I'll go poke around the bushes a little bit. Moose hunting season is only twice a year. You don't get anything then you become very reliant on small game. Just gonna head up to these lakes and check it out, see if there's any animals running around today. JOEL JACKO The winds kinda picked up a little bit so I don't know, everything might be kinda hunkered down. I'm out here you know, hunting for food but this warmer weather is making it super, super difficult to kinda predict what the game is gonna do. You don't really know till you get out and start looking for tracks and what not. We're gonna head back, back up the old wood cutting trail, 'cause I haven't been back there in a while, sometimes there's rabbits and stuff running around. Moose hunting season is coming up, with the lake not being frozen over, it's really hard to go out there and find one. So basically, I'm stuck hunting around town and the only thing you're gonna get around town is like birds maybe rabbits. Every little bit counts, you know, to get you, to get you through the winter. Probably go down there. Some rabbit tracks. I feel like I'm going into a briar patch right now. They had to have been from this morning. It's been moving this way I think. Right there. Hip hoppity who, where are you? I think this is where his original home or hole is. Pew. I'm gonna try to follow them and see if I can see where he's hanging out. They're all white and there's fresh snow on the ground. Holy cow. Man, rabbits covered some ground today. I think I found the freaking energizer bunny. MARVIN AGNOT Well. GLYNDARIL Hoorah. MARVIN AGNOT There it is. MARVIN AGNOT This is how we get our supplies coming in. MARVIN AGNOT It's winter now, and there's no more boats traveling between Kodiak and here. GLYNDARIL Over the winter, we have to use a plane. GLYNDARIL Even that can be sketchy at times because you never know when the wind will just kick up, and planes can't land. MARVIN AGNOT All right. This is the first time I'm really adding on to my house, finally putting on the artic entry to have a place to take your boots and shoes off, to eliminate bringing dirt in. After nine years of being sober, I finally realized that I can start contributing back to myself. I'm just making some moves here, buddy. So I can build the deck. We are southernmost village on Kodiak Island, wintertime is very, um, unpredictable. You can have some really nice weather, within half an hour you got a blizzard, it changes so rapidly. The wind and the rain just blows right on to my door. So, this artic entry's gonna really help me on my house. Ugh, okay, get that right off of there. I'm gonna build it right to this sort of plywood, I'll come flush with this. GLYNDARIL Okie-dokie. MARVIN AGNOT This is how it's gonna go just like that. GLYNDARIL We need to get everything squared because if your foundation is squared off your building from the beginning, everything will line up. MARVIN AGNOT Half an inch (1 centimeter) for the plywood GLYNDARIL Yeppers MARVIN AGNOT Perfect. Now it's time to start work. Now I'm going to put two-by-fours in here and here's the floor. That's bolt right up to the house. For having Glyn a long with me too you know we're both learning. He's never been a carpenter; I've never been a carpenter. But we'll just figure it out. Oh, yeah. Not bad. We'll see how level we are. This was my dad's, he died many years back but it's still got my dad's name written right on it with his hand writing, M-I-N-E-Y. I learned a lot from my dad, he was pretty smart. He taught me pretty well, you know, took me a while to realize what he taught me but I realized it comes in pretty handy at what I'm doing now. Doesn't need to be easy it still works well. Still serves the purpose and I'm still happy that stepped into the archives and found it. MARVIN AGNOT Glyn you can't get anymore level than that. Look at that. GLYNDARIL Awesome! MARVIN AGNOT It's so level this way. GLYNDARIL It's like your dad helped you build it. MARVIN AGNOT I'm very impressed with the outcome. We just had to piece it together. There's the deck. GLYNDARIL If it holds me, it'll hold anybody. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Well, it's about time to go to and replenish my meat supply. Try to anyway. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Gonna go out and look around see if I can see moose. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG You see it's pretty chilly out today negative fifty-four, fifty-five this morning when I woke up. Anybody that tells you they're in negative fifty and they don't get cold, they're full of (bleep). You gotta keep moving forward. No matter what this country throws at you. I don't think I'd rather, live any other way. Pretty sure that's a bull. I'm pretty sure I see buttons on the head where his antlers used to be. Every winter we get moose around town just to escape from the wolves. You know, there's three different packs that encroach around town here. But he's a safe moose right there in town and he knows it. That's why he's sitting right there. I'd never ever take a shot right here in the town like that. Maybe if I was starving but that's a good sign man, we haven't even left town yet and we've seen a bull moose already. Nah, there's other moose out there in the wilderness. The moose are gonna be down here in the river corridors and just like how we use it as a highway the moose use it as a highway also. You see these fresh tracks crossing right here. Looks like a bull track. Looks nice and big and heavy. You can tell this is real fresh, snow hasn't even set up in them yet. Still soft. That's how you check these tracks, once you step in it, you know that snow is gonna set up and get hard but right after you step in it and pull your foot out the snow is still gonna be soft in there. It's still soft inside these tracks so I know that he's back into the mainland. Let me see if I can catch up to him on the back side of this island right here. Hunting moose in the winter is a little bit difficult, you gotta put in a lot of miles, be out there on the river. It's not easy, if it was easy everyone would be doing it. (bleep) STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Oh, man. I just came around this little part right here, there was a moose standing right here it was pretty dark and it had a big bell. I'm pretty sure it was a bull, but I didn't take a shot because I'm pretty sure it isn't good enough. You gotta know for sure that it's a bull, cow moose breeding star. You know that's our future that's the next generations food, that's my kid's food. Someday my grandkid's food. I'm looking for a bull and you know this time of year they don't have any antlers, they shed their antlers already so you gotta look for the spots, it's gonna be two white spots, the button where they lost their antlers on their head or else we'll be looking for their doots if they're not in too deep of snow. He'll be back out soon, give him some time to calm down. Hangout let his heart slow down he'll come back out and start eating again. It's a nice day still got some day light I'm gonna continue looking. MARVIN AGNOT Here comes the rain. MARVIN AGNOT Just got the deck put in, should have the walls up today. MARVIN AGNOT I'm just building the outer wall, so I got an idea of what angle I'm gonna build my roof. Pitch my roof it has to be at a good angle from the main part of the house otherwise it just pools up on top and then it creates problems. GLYNDARIL Oh, that looks lovely. MARVIN AGNOT The angles coming together pretty good there Glyn. GLYNDARIL Oh, that's perfect. It's enough to let anything run off, water, snow. MARVIN AGNOT And now we just put the walls on. Easy peasy. GLYNDARIL And you're there. MARVIN AGNOT So foolish when I did that yet. Still got a half an inch (1 centimeter) sticking out there. I'm ahead of myself, I put the frame up without netting the wall solid. I just can't build an artic entry and not protect it, cause it'll just rot. There you go. Now screw down. The carpentry and it requires a lot of patience. This is a part of our learning and adapting to how we live out here. I pretty much got it and now I'm just gonna build this angle it off my roof, put hangers up here for the two-by-six. GLYNDARIL Okay. MARVIN AGNOT Perfect. GLYNDARIL One day he's gonna be putting these up. MARVIN AGNOT To work with Glyn is really nice for him being big and strong, it's a very big bonus for me. It maybe be raining, blowing but we're both learning and it'll be ready for when the cold comes. Looks perfect we got a good angle for the rain to keep going off. MARVIN AGNOT Yeah, it's pretty solid Glyn. GLYNDARIL It's, it's getting close. Look how big this thing is. You could fit about three or four of me in here this is, this is nice. MARVIN AGNOT I feel this is going to be so nice. GLYNDARIL Wetness be gone. MARVIN AGNOT Wetness be gone! JODY POTTS JOSEPH You just let them come to you. You know you just wait. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Don't ever think you can run and catch up to caribou 'cause you can't. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Being up here in this place, I just feel really connected to our ancestors. I just feel their presence. It's pretty powerful. Do you guys see anything? JEVAUGHN JOSEPH No, nothing. JODY POTTS JOSEPH This wind is just whipping. We should probably get a move on, huh? JEVAUGHN JOSEPH Yeah. JODY POTTS JOSEPH All right follow me boys. We might be vegetarian this winter if we don't get any luck. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Our traditional foods are also our medicine so it's really important for us to have this meat. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Yeah, all the caribou left plenty of signs, there's w�dzey on the ground. JODY POTTS JOSEPH They're not steaming so there's a clue. We haven't had caribou meat in a really long time. For the last three years they haven't come through our area. It's a long time for our people so, you know, hopefully we'll get an opportunity to feed our family and our village. SEAN GOEBEL Auntie, there's caribou JODY POTTS JOSEPH Caribou? SEAN GOEBEL Yeah. Caribou. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Oh, caribou, game time. Good eye boys, just stay here. There's three caribou. JODY POTTS JOSEPH I think they're cows. Damn it. A cow with two calves, we can't shoot it. Cows can have many more calves in the future so I'm just gonna have to be patient and wait for more caribou, you know, when it's just a cow with two calves, I think I'm just gonna let her go. It's really hard because you don't know how long those caribou will be around for, sometimes they'll stay and hang out but a lot of times they got wolves and bears following them and keeping them moving and so they can be gone and nothing in sight for months. Well, let's head back, we're up here in this exposed stuff. SEAN GOEBEL Oh yeah, get out of the wind? JODY POTTS JOSEPH Yeah, get out of the wind. When hunting it's always important to be humble and just remember that sometimes you might get lucky and other times you might not, no matter what your skill level is. You guys can sled down this track, I'll even give you a good kick to get you moving. SEAN GOEBEL Okay. JODY POTTS JOSEPH You're at the mercy of what, you know, the world around you decides to offer. SEAN GOEBEL Oh! Ah! JODY POTTS JOSEPH There they go. Good to see they, that they can still be kids and have fun. Uh, too funny. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG I thought I see the moose over here bedded down but it's just a dark patch of willows. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Been going out a lot, putting a lot of miles in, in the areas where I know there should be moose. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG We are seeing some moose, but we're not seeing any bulls yet. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG I've seen a lot of cows. I see fresh moose tracks over here on the bank though, you see Hazel? HAZEL STRASSBURG Yeah. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Today I'm gonna be bringing Hazel out with me, she's, uh, eleven years old, she's a strong little girl. I named her after my grandma Hazel. My grandma taught me how to hunt moose, fish and do all this type of stuff. It feels good to have a little piece of Hazel around. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG There's one over this way some place. We should put snowshoes on and check it out back here huh? You want to? HAZEL STRASSBURG Yeah. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG All right. HAZEL STRASSBURG I like spending time with my dad because I like to go out hunting with him, it's very fun learning new things with him. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG There's a moose heading this way, instead of running the machines and scaring them away we're gonna try to sneak up with some snowshoes and see if we can catch up, while he's leaving tracks. How is it? HAZEL STRASSBURG It feels good. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG If you didn't have those on, you'd be neck deep snow. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG You'd never be able to walk. But with these, you can float around like bunny rabbit. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG I'll give you a dollar. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG If you see a moose before me. See, it's been out. HAZEL STRASSBURG Yeah. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG There's a moose back in here some place baby. I love the little moments that I have with my daughter out there, she's just an amazing girl, I enjoy all of it. I didn't start off my adulthood in a very good direction, I started drinking a lot, you know, doing a lot of bad stuff, another stereotype, another statistic, the deciding factor I guess is when I woke up in jail. It was thirty-five days but that was thirty-five days where I couldn't see my children. Hazel she was only one. Looking at my little daughter Hazel, I knew that she'd never be proud of me if I was to continue to live on that lifestyle so that's when I quit drinking and I start trying to live a more cultural and subsistence lifestyle. I started going back out to the woods, I never picked up a drink of alcohol again. I feel healthy, I feel stronger, it's just a blessing to have this life. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG I don't know where that moose went. But I'm not sitting down and waiting for them to come to us. We're looking, we're trying baby. HAZEL STRASSBURG Yeah. JOEL JACKO Where is this mother sucker? I didn't realize this rabbit would be doing his Five-K today. JOEL JACKO Hard to tell with rabbit tracks it if it's just snow that fell off the tree. JOEL JACKO He's going this way, I'll keep going that way, see if I can catch up to him again. JOEL JACKO I've been on these rabbit tracks for like a mile (1 kilometer) now. JOEL JACKO This is pretty atypical for a rabbit. I don't know what's going on, I haven't seen any sign of him yet except his tracks and he's just like hauling across the countryside. There's some tracks right here. The rabbits (bleep) with me. By this point I have so much time invested in this rabbit I feel like I just need to keep going until find him. And he ducked into his hole here somewhere over here. I think I found his lair. It's kinda where the tracks end. Yeah, if I can't get to him in here with a gun, then I might just set some snares up since I know where his trails at and he's little hiding, his hiding hole is, so. If he's in there he's not going to come out now. I'll look a little more around the outside. (bleep). Just scared a spruce hen, should've been looking up and not down, I guess. A spruce hen. JOEL JACKO Sniper! Well, at least I got something for now, wasn't a total loss walking around the woods. Usually, you don't get spruce hen when it's blowing this hard 'cause they won't let you get very close. Oh, yeah. Right in the jugular. So, out here you do kinda just have to take whatever mother nature throws at you and you know, sometimes it's spruce hen. Ooh, it's so warm. Obviously, the rabbits are smarter than the spruce hen. Rabbit lead me straight to him. Spruce hen definitely have like a distinct taste to 'em, probably 'cause they're eating pine needles. It's pretty good, it's definitely my favorite bird to eat. Good enough, huh? It'll be a good meal. Sometimes you do have to just take advantage of the situation and just, you know, shoot whatever you can 'cause' you know, you gotta eat something. JAMEY JOSEPH All right, I'll dump hot water and you just dunk them in there, okay? JODY POTTS JOSEPH Jeez, it's pretty gnarly. JAMEY JOSEPH Yeah, pretty stinky stuff. JODY POTTS JOSEPH This is a cooler of old rotten scraps that we're using for bait. That strong odor will really attract animals. JODY POTTS JOSEPH So, I am watching for caribou but it's nice to also utilize the small animals like marten. Today is opening day of trapping season. I'm gonna go walk out on my old trail on our property here. Set some traps. And I'm using the wing of this grouse that I got. And dip it in that stinky bait. JAMEY JOSEPH If the smell doesn't attract them, at least, uh, we got some movement and visual attraction. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Oh, just the smell will attract, actually may detract them because it's pretty gnarly. JAMEY JOSEPH Okay, here we go. Soak that in there a little while huh. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Just how the animals like it. JAMEY JOSEPH Okay. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Trapping is really essential for our family in order for us to have material to make our warm winter gear. JAMEY JOSEPH Good luck. Be safe. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Our traditional winter gear is much warmer than anything that I can buy from a store. And it's really important for us to have the highest quality good gear for this really harsh, cold, dark environment. This is where our family log home was. And we had all kinds of sheds, barns, fish cache, the whole works but the flood of 2009 took it all including the big trees we had here. And our house, it all just went down the river. It's nice being back, it's also sad that we don't have anything here. A lot of memories. But at least we still have my old trap line trail so I'm gonna go check it out. Yeah, I'm right at home. I'm lucky to be H�n Gwich'in. MARVIN AGNOT We got a lot of wind coming. GLYNDARIL Yeah. MARVIN AGNOT I can see the wind is here. We got snow creepin' in. MARVIN AGNOT This is gonna be a very big plus to keeping my house warm. GLYNDARIL We're gonna put on the roof and the outside wall, that way we can build it up and block the wind while we work on the last part. MARVIN AGNOT There you go, perfect. GLYNDARIL Now just strap the plywood up. Hey, baby girl. MARVIN AGNOT Hey, what's going on? You wanna give us a hand? JAZMINE AMODO WHITE How can I help? MARVIN AGNOT You'll have to help your dad hold it up. GLYNDARIL Yeah, need the strong, need a muscle in the family. MARVIN AGNOT Yeah, you're strong. GLYNDARIL My oldest daughter's, Jazmine. And she's only fifteen. She likes to, uh, pop in and just watch me work. GLYNDARIL So, if she's gotta watch me, she's gotta help me. JAZMINE AMODO WHITE I love helping where help is needed and if it's my uncle, I'm really glad to help and jump in with him. GLYNDARIL See Jazz, doing this gives me a whole lot more courage to actually sit there and do it to my own house now. I can take these new skills I learn and, uh, go apply 'em to my own addition. With the family our size, we need it. MARVIN AGNOT Think it's coming together, Glyn. Ready to put the roof and the walls on. Great here. Whoa, okay, can we go in with it, up in? GLYNDARIL Ugh. Hang on, hold, can you hold it right there for a sec. Jazmine, I need your help, get in here. MARVIN AGNOT Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. It's gotta go straight out, just the angle we had it. GLYNDARIL Okay. Come stand here, hold it. I need you to hold this so I can push, 'cause I'm gonna go out in the back. Here we go. You ready to push? MARVIN AGNOT Yeah. Okay, Glyn. All the way. GLYNDARIL It's coming together, piece by piece. MARVIN AGNOT Take another one up here, Glyn. Okay. GLYNDARIL All it is, is a puzzle. MARVIN AGNOT That's it. GLYNDARIL The final piece. MARVIN AGNOT Okay, how high are we? GLYNDARIL Just under eighty-two (208 centimeters). Eighty-one and three quarters (207 centimeters). MARVIN AGNOT Do you know how, how high are we here? 'Cause if I don't need to. GLYNDARIL Eighty-one and three quarters, seventy-eight (207 centimeters). MARVIN AGNOT Oh man, did I go too far? GLYNDARIL And, we're off by like four inches (10 centimeters). In plywood world, that's quite a bit. There's no point in having all this building when you're whole doorway is not on there, you just have a big open hole and you're just gonna get all the water inside. MARVIN AGNOT It fits perfect this way but I didn't get the height. GLYNDARIL Okay, how about this. We could take your skill saw, cut across the board. And then you have a free measurement of however high up you need to go. MARVIN AGNOT I'll put the door in. GLYNDARIL We can just build in the frame around it. MARVIN AGNOT Do it that way. GLYNDARIL There it is. We have a doorway. Soon we'll have a door. Money! MARVIN AGNOT We got the door in, shimmed it. Twisted the door frame a little bit from side to side. It almost look like we knew what we were doing. MARVIN AGNOT You won't see the wood after I get done with putting the siding on. It's cosmetic stuff buddy. This is the wind breaker. GLYNDARIL Hey, your dream just became reality, Unc. MARVIN AGNOT There it is. Thank you, Glyn. GLYNDARIL My pleasure, Unc. My pleasure. JODY POTTS JOSEPH I'm seeing bigger marten tracks here. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Oh wow, quite a few marten tracks. Few rabbit tracks. So that's good. I'm happy to see that. This is kinda of the start of my trap line from when I was a kid. This is like literally a walk down memory lane. Think I might use this tree and set a marten trap right there. I'm gonna go ahead and hang my bait first. Oh god, I can already smell it. Woo. The idea is, when the wind blows you can attract the marten by one the odor, the scent. But also, just by this wing kinda blowing in the wind. The marten trap, simple spring trap. You gotta press this spring down but I don't have the hand strength so, Jamey and his bush ingenuity made this this cool thing. And I can just open it up and set it that way. Otherwise, I wouldn't have the ability. Perfect fit. The marten's gonna run up this tree to get to the bait up here and along the way he's hopefully gonna step in my trap and then get caught. One down and a dozen more to go. When I'm out here on these trails, it really takes me back to a lot of really great memories as a kid. You know back here on these lands, and so, you know it's a really a good feeling to be back. I'm gonna chop this down so I can secure it to that spruce tree over there to set my trap on. This is my playground, you know. Think I walked this trail, I don't know countless times, like every day after school, eat my snack and then run out here and check in on my snares. To use these trails is really just such a good feeling. I feel really close to my ancestors and you know, really to our culture. Make sure it's nice and secure. That's good. It's really awesome just you know, to be in this place and you know continue this way of life on trails that our people have used for a very long time. Perfect, now hopefully I get lucky. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Jeez. See all kinds of tracks in there but nothing super fresh. Well, they've definitely been in this area but I don't know where the hell they went now though. Seen a lot of cows, so I haven't seen no bull moose yet. So, I haven't even gotten to take a shot yet. Give up is not part of our language. You know, Athabascan language we don't have a word for I give up �cause that is nothing that we do. We don't give up. It's very important that I teach my daughter that even if you're having a hard time, nothing is going right. You're hurting, your body's hurting, you're tired and you're out there day after day. You're not having any luck, you're not seeing anything, sooner or later you stay persistent, your lucks gonna change. Things will get better. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG You see it baby? HAZEL STRASSBURG Uh-huh. HAZEL STRASSBURG It's looking at us. HAZEL STRASSBURG Dad, it's walking away. I think the moose went like up into the trees a bit more. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Let's go see if we can walk up here and get a better sight of it. See if we can see what it is. I gotta teach my daughter some survival skills out here in the woods. If you don't have any survival skills for this type of country, you know you're not gonna make it when things go bad. If it comes out in the open and we see buttons, you're gonna take a shot, okay, baby? And you try and take a shot for the neck bone, okay? HAZEL STRASSBURG I'll be ready. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG You see him now? HAZEL STRASSBURG Yeah. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Look, here it comes. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG No buttons. Yeah, that's a big momma. Wanna check baby? You see her? HAZEL STRASSBURG Yeah. It looks so cute though. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Yeah, it is a beautiful animal. I sure do like the way they look, but I like how they taste better though. That would be an easy shot for you, too easy. That's why it's gotta be a cow. Didn't have any luck getting a bull moose but you know, for now we're done but we're not giving up. We're gonna continue on later in the year. Nothing more peaceful than that, huh? Nice quiet country. Big pretty moose right in front of us. Probably got a big baby in her belly. All right, let's get outta here before we disturb her anymore. See, she's eating a lot of willows. Eating for two, maybe three. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Pretty excited with anticipation of seeing if any of my traps caught anything. My first trap. Uh, nothing. Oh well. First trap nothing. It's fine though, I'm gonna leave it. The bait looks good, the wing looks fine. I'm just gonna carry on and check the rest of my traps. Whether I'm marten trapping or caribou hunting and have a lot of luck or none depends on, you know if an animal wants to give itself to you. Whoa, that's a big marten! Wow, that's a nice one. Ah. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Mahsi'choo. Mahsi'choo. This is a really beautiful, big marten. I like its coloring, it's a good size. It's always important to remain humble and to just always be thankful for whatever you get, even if it's just a nice feed. It get so cold here like a stock and cap is just not warm enough. So, we need these fur hats and so, I'm gonna make myself a new hat. I'll be able to use this marten not just for the fur but also for the claws. I'll be able to make jewelry out of the claws, like earrings and stuff. And then, my daughter wanted me to keep the jaw because she wants to make earrings out of the jaw bone which is kinda cool. So, this is a really good start to the trapping season. And I'm really excited to see, you know how we'll do this winter. Really happy right now. MARVIN AGNOT This artic entry might not be much to others, but it means the world to me. That's just like my sobriety, once you got a strong foundation to build off of, you could face all elements. You just get prepared for the long winter months, and it'll be ready for when the cold comes, that's the main thing. Really added a lot of space and storage space. Very big improvement. I can hang a lot of stuff that's inside my house, coats, coveralls. Already eliminating clutter. I reflect back on what I've changed in my life to become what I am today. And I feel a lot better of what I'm doing in my life now. It's the best feeling. JODY POTTS JOSEPH Pretty satisfied. Checked all my traps, I got one marten so far. I'm gonna build a fire and I'm gonna hang this up in order to start thawing it. Anytime that I'm out on the land, it's time well spent. Out here there's different challenges that we're gonna face but you just can't give up. JOEL JACKO Fancy, this is a fancy spruce hen I'm cooking. Between the weather and the environment, it makes life pretty difficult out here. You know some days you just gotta push through the pain, and hopefully the reward is worth it. JOEL JACKO It just makes the rest of your life a little brighter. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG They're not here baby. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Maybe on the way home we'll see one. There's times like this where we have a real hard time. You put in all the miles, we do all the work and it's just not paying off. But you can't let that get you down, you just gotta keep working at it, keep trying, keep trying. Too much darn hair, baby. And that's just how we survive out here. It's been passed down to me. And I'm trying my best to pass it down to my children now. [SNAP-IN] HAZEL STRASSBURG From these tracks it looks like, um. HAZEL STRASSBURG It started blowing down. HAZEL STRASSBURG 'Cause you could see like, it's footprints. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Yup, you remember, see how it kinda looks spread out when he's walking in here, and you can barely tell through the snow, but it looks like it's real spread out. When those bull moose step, there toes go wide. Stepping like that really pushing and you'll see those big hoofs sticking out like that. When the cow moose step, their toes is more pointed in like that. The hoofs, they're gonna be round in the front, see? That's how you tell. In the mud, in the fall time, you can really see the difference in there. In the winter right now it's a little hard, the snow covers back in, covers itself up a lot. I think we're chasing a bull. But let's go see if we can get up the hill on this other side baby. Doing good? HAZEL STRASSBURG Yeah. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Learning how to turn around? HAZEL STRASSBURG I hope. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Turn around, just keep going like this. See, look. One snowshoe at a time. Now run. HAZEL STRASSBURG Run? I can't run. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Yeah. Try. HAZEL STRASSBURG Huh? STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Try. HAZEL STRASSBURG I'll trip. STEVEN TIG STRASSBURG Run on the trail. Woo, snowshoe race. I'll be damned.