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  • SUE: All right.

  • We got something just poked its head out of the ravine there.

  • I got a bunch of caribou and I've got a big ass bear coming in.

  • I got a bear over here and I got caribou over here.

  • He's actually quartering north,

  • so I'm sure he's trying to get around without giving his scent trail up.

  • He's damn close to camp, so, that's not safe to me.

  • My name is Susan Aikens.

  • I am the sole resident and owner of Kavik River Camp.

  • It's an old oil camp 200 miles above the Arctic Circle.

  • I'm the only refueling station and I do it on my own.

  • In order to run a business, I have to cater to the people

  • in the season that they're roaming around.

  • That's summer.

  • And in that June, July, and August,

  • I need to make enough revenue to support the camp

  • and get ready for the next year.

  • I am working 24 hours a day and then boom!

  • Winter hits.

  • I've got nine months of some of the harshest conditions on Earth,

  • and for the nine months or more that I'm totally alone out here,

  • I hunt for the meat that I eat.

  • I live by my wits and sometimes those are lacking.

  • The older I get, the slower I get, but the animals keep getting faster.

  • But, I rise to the challenge every day.

  • It's the challenge that keeps me going.

  • Welcome to Kavik, it's where I live.

  • I think what I'm gonna have to do is try to get down there.

  • Down the road a little this way.

  • If I scare all the caribou, I'm gonna scare the bear as well.

  • Either way I've got caribou to get, and there's a bear.

  • It may be a twofer.

  • Welcome to winter.

  • (theme music plays)

  • ♪ ♪

  • SUE: Every caribou is staring at me.

  • Where is my (bleep) bear?

  • It's like he disappeared off the planet.

  • I've gotta get a little elevation here.

  • Okay, they're all coming towards me.

  • So, the bear must be on the other side starting to push.

  • All right, these are bear tracks, but this is a pretty big bear.

  • He's not a juvenile-long stride.

  • This is just King Mamma-Jamma slothing his way through.

  • But, I gotta get jamming.

  • This is a lesson in frustration, right here.

  • I'm trying to get the easiest place to get at this bear in a

  • 100% open field,

  • without giving up 100% of my opportunity at caribou.

  • Whenever you're hunting bear, the longer you take, even seconds, they're gone.

  • Your hunt is blown before it's ever started, but I gotta try though.

  • Yeah.

  • They're cruising now for the river, which means they're in migration mode.

  • But, it's possible that the bear is up there.

  • I may just sit put and just see what develops.

  • The bear across this open ground, there's no way I'm gonna sneak up on him.

  • He heard me. He didn't smell me. But he heard me.

  • He probably saw the vehicle.

  • I don't have the tracks on the vehicle.

  • All's I'm gonna do is end up getting stuck somewhere and no way to get myself out.

  • That's not smart hunting.

  • Bummed out about the bear.

  • But not so bummed out that I'm gonna put my life in jeopardy chasing him down.

  • That just, that's a fool's errand.

  • All right, Mr. Bear.

  • Live to see you another day, man.

  • CHIP: Subsistence is basically just being able to make a living

  • from the land with the things around you.

  • And we do a pretty good job at that.

  • And, we mix it into a modern 21st Century.

  • Okay. We got one good one. Let's get another one.

  • What's up little guy?

  • You rolling up on us, seeing what we're doing?

  • We're making you a sled.

  • CHIP: We can make you a sled.

  • Tata and Carol are gonna make you a sled.

  • I'm gonna make a sled for Wade.

  • It's gonna be something that he can play with for a few years.

  • It'll be substantial.

  • It'll be kind of a big sled, but over the next few years,

  • he'll probably grow right on into it.

  • And plus, just to be able to drag him around will be a lot of fun, too.

  • I'm Edward Hailstone.

  • My friends call me Chip.

  • I'm married to Agnes Hailstone.

  • AGNES: I'm Inupiaq Eskimo, and I was born and raised here in Noorvik, Alaska.

  • We pretty much live a semi-nomadic lifestyle.

  • We just go from area to area depending on season.

  • CHIP: We're hunters, gatherers, fisher people.

  • AGNES: I'm hunting in the same areas that my parents had hunted for hundreds of years.

  • CHIP: We got seven kids together.

  • Three of them still live with us.

  • The four oldest have grown up and moved off.

  • AGNES: We pretty much try and teach our children everything I was taught by my parents,

  • and my mother and father learned from their parents.

  • It's very important for me to pass down my knowledge to my children

  • and to their children.

  • CHIP: Okay. What we need to do is go inside, since the sun's heading down.

  • And I think, actually, what I wanna do first is bend the boards I wanna bend.

  • You know what I mean?

  • CAROL: Come on. CHIP: Come on, grandson.

  • Let's go inside the house and go work on your sled.

  • CAROL: Come on, baby. Follow us.

  • CHIP: There you go. Ho, ho, ho!

  • You gotta walk on your own, crazy boy.

  • Open the door for Tata.

  • Hold it open. Hold it open. Thank you.

  • Okay. Carol, check this out.

  • CAROL: Yup.

  • CHIP: First thing that we're gonna do is make the runners.

  • CAROL: All right.

  • CHIP: We're just gonna start steaming these things,

  • and we'll be able to put foil over it to catch this,

  • and as soon as these are nice and soft right here,

  • we just have to make a bend up about yay far.

  • And we can make a sled about that big.

  • Just perfect for Wade to do his thing for a couple years.

  • This will do.

  • Basically, we're just gonna let all this stuff cook.

  • CAROL: Should we do the next step now?

  • CHIP: Yup. We'll start shaping the different pieces.

  • Carol. Yeah, sitting on this so, you would really help me a lot.

  • CAROL: It's always good to do activities with my dad, 'cause, like,

  • I get to learn faster.

  • CHIP: Grab me the, um, small diameter and thread it in.

  • CAROL: Okay. My dad, he has fun teaching me.

  • CHIP: See what you can do with that, love.

  • CAROL: It's real useful out here knowing how to build,

  • and being with my dad and doing the one on one work,

  • it's pretty fun.

  • I love it.

  • CHIP: Yeah, these are good.

  • Come here, bun.

  • I'm gonna pull this off, we're gonna take these two ends right here,

  • and put them in there, and I'm gonna ease 'em down this way.

  • If we hear any cracking, if we see any lifting, we stop. Okay?

  • CAROL: Okay.

  • CHIP: The runners have to be bent, and it's kind of a delicate process.

  • Because, when you bend them together, they're a match pair.

  • You can't duplicate, uh, another bend.

  • So, so the trick is to just do it right the first time as best you can

  • and make your bends carefully, and listen, and feel when you do it.

  • So, ready. Let's give this a try.

  • (mimics dramatic music)

  • CAROL: Are you sure you're gonna bend it that way?

  • CHIP: I am sure. I know exactly what I'm doing.

  • CAROL: Hey, stop.

  • CHIP: That's all right, it's not decent.

  • Okay. There we go, there we go, there we go, there we go.

  • Gently. Okay, I don't hear any badness.

  • Now go choke up these two together.

  • CAROL: Yeah. CHIP: These two right here.

  • Okay, right there is perfect. Absolutely perfect.

  • Tighten it. Okay, that's good.

  • Okay, that way they have the same bend, and the same place,

  • and the same time, same bat channel.

  • We just have to let it dry now.

  • CAROL: All right.

  • CHIP: That's all we can do.

  • CAROL: So, we're done for tonight?

  • CHIP: We're done for tonight.

  • This needs to dry and tomorrow we'll, uh,

  • we'll take it off there when we have everything else prepared,

  • and this will be the last thing that we mount

  • and that we fit everything to.

  • CAROL: All right.

  • GLENN: Wherever you are, there are dangers.

  • If you don't wanna take a risk, don't get out of bed in the morning.

  • But the reality is, that knowledge will protect you

  • from the dangers in your environment.

  • About 1,000 feet above lake elevation here.

  • Hey, there's the camp.

  • I can see it. See it, Amelia?

  • AMELIA: Yeah.

  • GLENN: I got my own airplane this summer.

  • The nearest road is a 60 mile walk from here.

  • If you wanna get somewhere, you're not gonna drive.

  • You gotta fly or you gotta walk.

  • Those are your two choices.

  • AMELIA: Feels good to be back at the Brooks Range, huh?

  • GLENN: Yeah.

  • NARRATOR: Before dark winter hits,

  • Glenn Villeneuve and his family return to their cabin in the Brooks Range.

  • Glenn will hunt for a bull moose,

  • an important supplement for his family's diet.

  • GLENN: Okay. Landing gear is up for water.

  • We got four blues.

  • Can you check on your side, make sure it's up?

  • AMELIA: Confirmed on my side.

  • GLENN: Looks good on my side.

  • First thing I do when I fly into camp,

  • I always like to make a pass over the cabin,

  • look down, see what's going on.

  • Anytime I leave camp, even like now, when it's only for a couple of weeks,

  • I have to check things out when I get back,

  • because things happen when I'm gone.

  • That's when bears are more likely to come into the yard,

  • that's when things can get damaged,

  • that's when things can cause problems.

  • I didn't see anything from the air,

  • but when I get up to the cabin,

  • I'm gonna look for smaller details.

  • Things can happen here that I can't see from the air.

  • I don't do what I do because it's easy.

  • I don't do what I do because it's hard.

  • I do what I do because I have a lot of fun doing it.

  • Everything is a choice.

  • I chose to live in the Brooks Range.

  • I choose to hunt for my food,

  • and now I choose to have an airplane.

  • It all goes together for me.

  • My name is Glenn Villeneuve.

  • I live in Alaska.

  • I moved up here almost 20 years ago,

  • 'cause this is the only place in the world where

  • I could live this lifestyle I'm living.

  • I built a cabin in Fairbanks, I got a place in the bush,

  • and I live half the time in each of them.

  • There's no other place on this planet Earth where

  • I could live the way I live here.

  • I'm in control of my own destiny.

  • I decide where I'm gonna go,

  • when I'm gonna go there, what I'm gonna do.

  • Nobody is telling me what needs to be done.

  • I just see what needs to be done and I do it.

  • My family is growing.

  • I had a new baby born last summer, I got four kids now.

  • It was always my dream to have my family in the bush with me.

  • It took time to achieve that,

  • and there were times when I had to set the priority on

  • being out here even though I didn't have anybody to share it with.

  • I've spent a whole winter out here by myself,

  • but it gets lonesome.

  • I mean, I'm only human.

  • And now I got everything I want.

  • I got the wilderness, plus I got my family with me.

  • Made it back to the camp.

  • There you go.

  • TRISHA: Camp looks good.

  • AMELIA: Hey, dad, it looks like the meat pole is knocked down.

  • GLENN: What happened here?

  • Our meat pole got knocked down.

  • This has never happened before.

  • There are not many things that can reach up there and knock that down.

  • That's been up there for 10 or 12 years.

  • Wooden pegs snapped right off.

  • There's only one thing that could've done that.

  • AMELIA: Bear.

  • GLENN: Exactly. There's not a bear behind every bush, but there are bears around.

  • Look, something walked right here.

  • That's a bear track, headed right up toward the meat pole.

  • This here looks like a sow with a cub.

  • And they can be very defensive.

  • If you're out here playing in the yard and,

  • all of a sudden a sow with a cub walks into the yard,

  • you could get into a dangerous situation.

  • You gotta keep your eyes open.

  • Well, I better get to work fixing up this meat pole,

  • because I wanna start moose hunting tomorrow.

  • Why don't you go back over to the cabin, open it up,

  • and get a fire going.

  • If I can get this all fixed up this afternoon,

  • then tomorrow morning I'll go out and start looking for a moose.

  • JESSIE: Every year out here, you know, I just grow.

  • And I learn how to be more prepared and ready next season.

  • All right. Right now, we got an amazing time of year here.

  • Definitely waiting for the winter to get going.

  • Right now, we have some pretty strange weather going on,

  • and it just hasn't froze up.

  • It's more later in the year than ever seen.

  • So, we got some open water here on the slough back behind my house,

  • and I got a little time where I could go out and set some beaver traps.

  • While I'm out there, I'm definitely gonna take my gun with me

  • because I'm gonna be covering a lot of country today.

  • I might see some rabbits, or grouse, or even ducks along the river bank.

  • So, I'm looking to go get some traps set,

  • but also come back with something fresh for my frying pan.

  • I'm Jessie Holmes.

  • I'm a professional dog musher.

  • I'm very blessed to live a subsistence lifestyle on the banks of the Nenana River.

  • When I came to Alaska, I didn't know exactly what I was going for.

  • I was just going for something different and, you know,

  • I didn't expect to become a competitive dog racer.

  • ANNOUNCER (over PA): Jessie Holmes, rookie of the year.

  • JESSIE: Now I'm here, and it's become a huge blessing

  • and it's allowed me to live the lifestyle that I envisioned.

  • I chose to live this way because I appreciate simplicity and I cut wood,

  • haul water, run dogs, procure resources.

  • It's just incredible to me and I love it out here.

  • I personally don't think you're ever ready for winter.

  • Whoa.

  • I never know what winter has in store, so I don't try to second guess winter.

  • All I can do is just be in a really good mindset.

  • Have my mind cleared and ready for what winter is gonna bring.

  • Right now, this is a transition time of year.

  • You can't really get out and travel because nothing's froze up

  • and it's not really good boating, but really,

  • it's a good time of year to make the best out of the last of fall here.

  • Like, I'm gonna go up the slough now that the water is dropped

  • and I can actually access the slough, and I'm gonna go see what's going on.

  • Yeah, this looks real good.

  • Definitely some active beaver sign around here.

  • That's a pretty good-sized feed pile.

  • There might be four, five beaver around here, so, once I get over there,

  • I'll be able to find where their main exits are.

  • Set up all four of these traps.

  • The more traps I put in this area, the better likelihood I got of catching a beaver.

  • And the traps that I'm gonna use are lethal.

  • That thing is alive right now.

  • They're not only lethal to the animal,

  • they're very dangerous to yourself if you mess up when you're setting them.

  • They're designed to crush bones.

  • These traps are very effective.

  • Once they trigger this, it kills them.

  • It's got so much power, but that power could be a problem if it sets on me.

  • I've got three traps set over there close to the feed house

  • and now I'm looking for one last spot to put this one.

  • Okay. All right.

  • So I'm gonna set this one kind of right in the edge of the water, here.

  • I've never tried to do this before,

  • but trying new things is what keeps you learning, you know.

  • See if maybe this works, with some bait behind it.

  • Catch him right when he's coming out

  • of the water he might walk right into this here.

  • All right. I got my last trap set.

  • It's looking good.

  • I still got plenty of daylight here, and what I'm gonna do is cut across this slough

  • and get into the woods and see if I can come across any rabbits, spruce grouse,

  • anything that I can eat.

  • For me, it's a mission to get a beaver,

  • but a lot of things are out moving in a hustle getting ready for the winter to come.

  • Right now, this is time where you're waiting for freeze up to come.

  • It's looking like it might snow today,

  • and it might be my last chance to be able to see some rabbits.

  • The whole thing about hunting rabbits right now is they're white on this dark ground,

  • and normally, they're white in the snow.

  • But, uh, this is kind of a late winter this year,

  • so the chances of seeing them is way greater.

  • Right there's a rabbit. I see one.

  • (makes rabbit call)

  • Dammit.

  • (makes rabbit call)

  • JESSIE: Dammit.

  • It's right there.

  • Got it.

  • Wait. Oh, I see another one.

  • Got it. I got two rabbits.

  • Getting two rabbits down when I was just trying to get one,

  • that's called a two for one, and that gives me a real good feeling.

  • I still got plenty of daylight and the rabbits are out.

  • It's so thick in here I literally have to crawl to get to the rabbits.

  • All right, there it is.

  • Man, that is a beauty.

  • Oh, he's fat.

  • I'm gonna throw this in my pack, go over, and get my other rabbit.

  • I'm in kind of a hurry right now because

  • it looks like the rabbit hunting is good right now and

  • the snow could fall tomorrow and I won't be able to see them like I can now.

  • Okay. I see the other one right over here.

  • Luckily, it's not so thick right here that I gotta crawl.

  • Wow, that's another nice looking rabbit.

  • Man, these guys are in really great shape right now.

  • This amount of meat's gonna make six meals for me.

  • So far, it's been a really good hunt, but I'm trying to keep my eyes out,

  • because there's rabbits all over right now.

  • I still got about an hour and a half of daylight left.

  • I'm gonna hunt until it's as dark as it can be.

  • (makes animal call)

  • It's a long shot but, if I go in, I'll probably scare him so.

  • This is great.

  • I got a third rabbit.

  • This one's even fatter than the other ones.

  • This is just such a good resource right now.

  • I didn't get to come away this fall with a bear or a moose

  • and I didn't get to put the kind of time I wanted to go out big game hunting.

  • But, just knowing the land around me and using the resources around me,

  • I've been able to be successful with lots of small game.

  • I still got an hour of daylight left.

  • I'm just gonna keep moving and make the best out of this resource while I can.

  • SUE: I don't have any interest in obliterating the species in my ecosystem,

  • but I don't have any interest in being obliterated.

  • I have to get past this area.

  • Ooh, can I even get across this?

  • No. I cannot go that way.

  • NARRATOR: With bear tracks near Kavik River Camp,

  • Sue continues her perimeter check to gain a different

  • perspective and observe the caribou migration as her

  • window to hunt is quickly closing.

  • SUE: I have a myriad of tracks I'm looking at.

  • The snow really shows who's walking around your neighborhood,

  • much like the silt does, but besides the tracks,

  • I've gotta watch out for all these drifts.

  • I no longer have a clear line of sight where my ditches are.

  • So, it's a little hazardous.

  • I'm right at the top end of not being able to use the Argo to go do these things right,

  • you know, anymore.

  • All righty.

  • And all this is prime territory for a, a bear.

  • I'm not really seeing anything that screams,

  • "Hey, I'm over here, I'm hiding out. Come shoot me."

  • Since I'm not seeing a lot of signs up here, I think if I were a bear and

  • I'm thinking like my opponent, I might get down into the river bed.

  • Animals tend to use the river as their highways as do people.

  • I always say, get in the river if you don't see anything get in the river.

  • It's probably running the southern bank, so it's time for me to get in the river

  • and run the southern bank.

  • See if they're running around.

  • I can see from here that there's quite a bit of water flowing still.

  • Little leery of getting too far out.

  • Well, I think if I'm gonna surprise the bear at this point,

  • I've gotta do something he doesn't expect.

  • The last thing this bear would expect me to do is to be floating down the river.

  • I got a new raft and it's an avenue I haven't tried and why not.

  • I'm not gonna go for a 30-mile trek.

  • I have a perimeter that I see as an area that's viable for me to worry

  • about what's running around in it.

  • Within two miles, I definitely have my hackles up,

  • and then a mile to a half mile, I've gotta be all over it.

  • But at five miles it's knowledge.

  • But for me this is simple.

  • Get in, float down and just see.

  • I'll be able to see it.

  • I'll be able to tell what direction he's going.

  • If I don't see any of his tracks going this way,

  • then he's still on my side of the river and I'll have to take mind of that.

  • So the plan for me right now is get to Little Red, get the raft,

  • get it together, get in the water, get some information.

  • AGNES: I don't know what the future holds for the next generation.

  • All we can do right now is just teach and teach and teach and care and love.

  • Yeah, this pile.

  • IRIQTAQ: Uh-hmm.

  • AGNES: Yeah. Yeah, that one's a good, good seed, like two of them.

  • NARRATOR: While Chip and Carol build transportation for Wade,

  • Agnes and daughter Idi source materials to make

  • another essential tool to survive the Arctic winter.

  • AGNES: Today, me and Idi are going out back and picking out some caribou skins,

  • and we're gonna be turning them into a parka for Wade Kelly.

  • Wolverine skin, a beaver skin, and two caribou skins.

  • It's getting cold out and the conditions for traveling is coming up,

  • and we just wanna prepare ourselves for winter so Wade Kelly will be just as warm as

  • us when we're out there with our parkas.

  • Okay. We're gonna have to turn these two skins into the back, front, hood, and sleeves.

  • TINMIAQ: Yeah.

  • AGNES: We cannot mess up when we start cutting because

  • we have only these two skins for right now.

  • TINMIAQ: Yeah.

  • AGNES: Ready? Who's gonna be the marker?

  • Where'd the pencil go?

  • IRIQTAQ: You are. AGNES: No mistakes.

  • IRIQTAQ: The parka we're going to be making is traditional.

  • What, you know, what our ancestors used out here.

  • It's gonna take a lot of stress off my mind knowing that he's a lot warmer

  • than he would be with these store-bought jackets, you know.

  • They aren't made for this kind of winter.

  • Could you pass that knife back to me, please?

  • TINMIAQ: Be careful. IRIQTAQ: Okay.

  • AGNES: Be really careful.

  • Awesome.

  • TINMIAQ: Yay, Idi.

  • Now you gotta open it, then you have to.

  • AGNES: Oh! Got a rip.

  • AGNES: Oh. TINMIAQ: Ripped it!

  • AGNES: Uh, we made a rip, and once it starts, it just goes on.

  • So, we have to, uh, stitch it back up and

  • just close it before it becomes a real problem.

  • We have to start being careful until we put all the trims around it,

  • so it just doesn't keep ripping.

  • These trims are what's gonna hold it together.

  • Once we get thread and stuff all around it, it'll be good.

  • TINMIAQ: Okay.

  • Now, let's get this (bleep) back together.

  • AGNES: It's important that we all work together and, um, of course it's a family effort

  • to just prepare ourselves for winter and, uh, I'm glad the family's, uh,

  • doing everything they can to prepare for winter.

  • That almost looks like a parkie, huh? Already.

  • TINMIAQ: Yeah!

  • I mean we still have a lot to sew, but dang guys, we're already halfways done.

  • IRIQTAQ: I love sewing.

  • If there's one thing I could sit down and do all day,

  • you know, once I start sewing,

  • I don't like to stop until my projects are finished.

  • But, uh, I do have a son running around that does need taking care of.

  • WADE: Yes! AGNES: Yes, it's your parkie!

  • TINMIAQ: Hey, adore. WADE: Parkies?

  • TINMIAQ: Wanna work on your parkie so you won't be cold?

  • AGNES: While your Tata work on your sled.

  • WADE: Huh? AGNES: It's a surprise sled.

  • WADE: Surprise sled. TINMIAQ: Uh-huh, sled.

  • AGNES: And it's a surprise parkie!

  • IRIQTAQ: I do sit down as much as I can and I sew what I can.

  • And, uh, a lot of times he understands I'm busy and he allows me to sit down and sew,

  • but little boy like that needs a lot of attention.

  • AGNES: Uh, no! IRIQTAQ: No! AGNES: No!

  • TINMIAQ: Here, here you go.

  • IRIQTAQ: Go check if your Tata needs help.

  • WADE: Up.

  • AGNES: So I'm just gonna finish up,

  • I just got one little patch left to go for the sleeve.

  • TINMIAQ: I'm almost done sewing the armpits and then I could sew on the sleeves and,

  • uh, then I could help you with the hood while she works on this wolverine rough.

  • IRIQTAQ: It's a lot of work but work isn't work when you're having fun.

  • AGNES: Made with much love for Wade Kelly by his Anna, his mama, and his auntie.

  • TINMIAQ: Yeah. AGNES: Now, let's go. We can do this.

  • GLENN: If you don't want your meat to get away,

  • just go to the store and buy it.

  • If you want the challenge of having to outsmart the animal to get your meat,

  • come out here and hunt.

  • ♪ ♪

  • NARRATOR: At the break of dawn,

  • Glenn heads out into the Brooks Range in hopes of harvesting a bull moose.

  • A successful hunt will provide Glenn and his family with

  • an ample source of protein necessary to make it through dark winter.

  • GLENN: Ice already.

  • Couple more weeks, the lake's gonna freeze right over.

  • Fall's my favorite time of the year because there's a lot of action.

  • Everything's going on in the fall time.

  • Winter's coming soon, moose are rutting, that's the time to hunt.

  • This is really when it all happens.

  • This is the best time of the year, and this is when I go out

  • and get the biggest animal that I hunt all year long.

  • Okay. I see a couple of moose, looks like they're both cows.

  • I'm confident with those two cows right there that there's a bull not too far away.

  • Bulls are a little more wary though.

  • There he is! That's the bull!

  • He's got his antlers up towards me.

  • He's got at least three cows.

  • There's no way I'm gonna call him away from those cows.

  • I gotta go down there and pretend I'm another bull that

  • wants to fight him in order to get to mate with those cows.

  • That's my only chance.

  • You've gotta learn how the animals behave.

  • And as much as you learn and as much experience as you have,

  • you're still often at a disadvantage because the animals are actually very

  • smart and they're very well adapted to evading predators.

  • These moose are getting hunted all the time.

  • They've evolved to escape from predators, and I'm the predator.

  • They're completely adapted to evading me.

  • I've gotta adapt to succeeding in catching them.

  • There's a moose right up here ahead.

  • I'm gonna take my antler off now, pretend I'm a bull.

  • That might get the bull interested.

  • He might come out and try to chase me away.

  • This antler works.

  • I've caught a lot of moose with this antler.

  • When they get close enough to see it, it often draws them right in.

  • It fakes them out.

  • They see this antler, and they think I'm another moose.

  • I've gotta fake this moose out, make him think I'm another moose.

  • I hear a bull.

  • He's grunting back. He heard me raking.

  • This could be a little tricky, this brush is pretty high.

  • He's gonna have to get real close for me to get a shot.

  • I'm gonna walk this way slightly.

  • I wanna get him as close to the lake as possible.

  • Here he comes. I see him.

  • (antler raking)

  • You see him? He's right there.

  • ♪ ♪

  • (gun safety click)

  • (gunshot)

  • ♪ ♪

  • (gun safety click)

  • (gunshot)

  • GLENN: He's down. Got him. Whoo.

  • That was pretty intense.

  • Called him right out into this open area.

  • I could see him, but he didn't have a very good view of me behind this tree right here.

  • I was just waving that antler around, that's about all he could see.

  • He thought I was another moose.

  • It's a good spot.

  • Close to the lake, not too far from camp.

  • I'm gonna call up Trisha, have the family come over.

  • They've never been at a moose kill site before.

  • They're gonna love this.

  • Trisha! Just got a moose.

  • And he's not too far from camp, you can come over.

  • TRISHA (over radio): Where are you on the lake?

  • GLENN: Just past the outlet.

  • TRISHA (over radio): Great, I know right where that is.

  • GLENN: All right, see you in a little while.

  • I'm so glad I was able to get this moose close enough to camp that Trish

  • and the kids can come over.

  • Hey, Trisha!

  • Right over here!

  • You made it!

  • Your first moose kill!

  • This is gonna be great for them, and we've been talking about this for months.

  • They're really interested in hunting, they wanna see how this works,

  • and they've never been able to come over to a moose kill site before.

  • Look at this moose, it's beautiful!

  • Got a nice-sized bull.

  • GLENN: Agatha, look! It's a moose!

  • TRISHA: Want to touch it? No.

  • GLENN: She shook her head no. TRISHA: She said no.

  • GLENN: It's okay, it's dead. Animal food.

  • Okay. I gotta get to work on this thing.

  • What do you think Amelia, you wanna help me cut this moose up?

  • AMELIA: What I really want is the back strap.

  • GLENN: Okay.

  • I do the things I wanna do in life.

  • But, as much as I enjoy doing them,

  • I enjoy it even more when I have people to share it with.

  • Wanna pull on that a little bit?

  • AMELIA: Ooh, that's heavy.

  • GLENN: Yeah.

  • Amelia's been here in Alaska now for four years

  • and she's picked up a lot.

  • Just by being around me, operating out in this environment,

  • she notices things.

  • Hey, Amelia?

  • The main thing is, by scooping the blood out carefully

  • I can preserve some of the fat in there better.

  • Keep everything cleaner.

  • I think what's really important for children isn't so much the practical skills

  • that they'll learn out here, although they'll be a lot of them.

  • But it's just the attitude and the mentality that develops.

  • Because living this lifestyle you get a lot of confidence,

  • you get a lot of independence, and you can take that wherever you go.

  • AMELIA: A lot of my classmates don't realize that,

  • how much work it takes to get all the food they eat.

  • It's not like you just go to the supermarket and get your food.

  • People have to grow it, pick it, process it,

  • before it gets to the supermarket.

  • GLENN: Hey, Amelia! I'm gonna cut the tongue out!

  • AMELIA: Hmm! GLENN: This should be tasty, huh?

  • AMELIA: Uh-hmm. GLENN: Boiled tongue.

  • Want a little moose tongue, Agatha?

  • Everybody in the family likes tongue.

  • Got it. Tongue.

  • It's a delicacy.

  • So that's going on the first load.

  • First load down.

  • TRISHA: Glenn, I think we're gonna head back.

  • GLENN: What's that?

  • TRISHA: I think we're gonna head back.

  • She's getting a little fussy.

  • GLENN: Yeah. Good idea.

  • TRISHA: Close to bedtime.

  • GLENN: Yeah, it's already getting late.

  • I gotta keep working on this, but you can head home and.

  • TRISHA: Good.

  • GLENN: Get a fire going and Agatha!

  • You gonna go home and get a little sleep now?

  • Been quite a long time over here at the kill site, huh? Yeah?

  • See you when I get there!

  • TRISHA: See you later.

  • GLENN: See you, Amelia!

  • It's coming apart, slowly but surely.

  • SUE: Before somebody puts that little thing across my body six foot under the ground,

  • I wanna know that I climbed every valley and looked over every hill.

  • This is the, the Sue raft.

  • The pon-Sue-n.

  • I've got this bear that I've been after.

  • Found some tracks out this way.

  • Um, went out after him but all's I'm doing is pushing him.

  • So for me, um, my thought is I wanna get into the river.

  • The Argo, is blam, blam, blam, blam blam!

  • Making a lot of noise.

  • This will be hopefully a lot less noise.

  • And it's a chance for me to try it out and see how it works.

  • So this is actually a trial run and a bear run.

  • Ready to go.

  • Let the winter bear sneak-a-thon start!

  • NARRATOR: With limited time before bears go into hibernation.

  • Sue is desperate to locate the predator and

  • tries a new tactic to gain a different perspective.

  • SUE: My objectives from this float is, uh, I'm looking.

  • I really wanna see if I see signs, is there evidence that he's still here?

  • Every year, we lose people on the rivers here.

  • That is not 70 degree water, 80 degree water.

  • That's hovering right above freezing.

  • If I fall in with that icy water, I'm done for.

  • I'm a little nervous about getting on this ice.

  • Come on. Okay. Turn in. Okay.

  • I have a perimeter that I see as an area for me to worry

  • about what's running around in it.

  • I'm not gonna go for a 30-mile trip.

  • I'm gonna go within reason of camp.

  • I wanna see the five miles around camp.

  • I'm just getting to the area where I think the bear,

  • you know, is kind of his hangout zone.

  • The caribou kind of came through this way.

  • And, uh, they just thundered right past this area.

  • I think, uh, I think I'm gonna start seeing more sign.

  • Oh, oh. That's hella fast!

  • Turn in. Come on, get control Susie!

  • Ugh, come on!

  • I have a big problem. I'm having troubles now.

  • SUE: I got it.

  • That was, uh, a little intense maybe.

  • Um, not bad.

  • Just, I'll have to work on maybe how I wanna place the oars

  • and the seat and everything.

  • When I'm right in the middle of the faster water, and I'm doing this,

  • uh, it's really difficult.

  • I've seen a few caribou tracks, there's another set right there.

  • It looks like they came this way and went "Yeah, not today."

  • And went back. Don't see any bear prints here,

  • but I wanna get out and check.

  • There we go.

  • Well, this is kind of the area that I saw the caribou tracks.

  • And this is the first place I can pull over, you've got a wide shelf.

  • It's a great spot if you're a predator to ambush something and eat dinner.

  • I can see some tracks here and here already.

  • Looks like I got some foxies.

  • This is very definitely wolverine right here.

  • I'm seeing a lot of good activity here.

  • What it isn't is a bear.

  • Everything here wants to survive and it's a tough environment to do it in.

  • And this right here just says it all.

  • You've got the fox looking, you've got the wolverine looking, maybe a small wolf,

  • and caribou.

  • And, you know, I'm looking for bears.

  • There's a bear pushing everybody around earlier.

  • So, I think what I want to do.

  • My daylight is fading.

  • I'm gonna get back to the Sue-craft.

  • I don't want to be caught out here at night because then the tables have turned.

  • Doesn't matter if I'm holding a gun if I can't see what I'm shooting at.

  • Do I feel safe from the bear?

  • I feel like I wanna be vigilant.

  • The moment you let yourself go too lax out here, it's gonna be the death of you.

  • If he's a problem, if he's absolutely rogue,

  • he'll visit me and I'll deal with it then.

  • CHIP: Living, what does living mean?

  • It means I ain't dead!

  • I'm healthy, I'm happy, and I'm home.

  • It's all good.

  • Come on, Carol. Let's have a look-see.

  • I think these have been drying long enough.

  • CAROL: Looks already bent, Dad.

  • CHIP: They look fine to me. CAROL: They look the same.

  • CHIP: Yeah. That worked out very well.

  • NARRATOR: Continuing to prepare the youngest family member Wade Kelly for the

  • harsh winter elements,

  • Agnes, Idi, and Ting work on a caribou skin parka.

  • While Chip and Carol start to assemble the sled after bending the runners.

  • CHIP: Well, the next thing to do is to put this together.

  • Then we can glue it. We can drill it.

  • CAROL: Okay.

  • CHIP: Yup. Then we can start putting our tie downs.

  • So, if you want to get all the small parts and bring them up here to the table,

  • we'll start putting this thing together.

  • We'll mark all these properly.

  • CAROL: Want me to get a pencil?

  • CHIP: Yeah, please. CAROL: I got it.

  • CHIP: Carol's, uh, a very able bodied, uh, helper right now.

  • She's not somebody I have to talk twice to.

  • I don't have to watch her.

  • She's been in, uh, woodshop in school.

  • She's had the basics down on making these kinds of stuffs.

  • She also saw me for years doing it too, and, uh, she'll be able to, someday,

  • to do all this stuff herself.

  • He's gonna love this gift, isn't he Carol?

  • CAROL: Uh-hmm.

  • I'll probably get to ride it, too.

  • CHIP: Oh, I'm sure you will.

  • He's gonna think we made him the best little toy in the world, I bet.

  • Looking good. Looking real good, Carol.

  • You can see how these are gonna go, right?

  • CAROL: Yeah, I know how it goes, it's easy.

  • CHIP: Well, this is the tune eliter, you know.

  • What it does here really well is that it's springy.

  • So we can tie it really tight, as tight as we possibly can, and it'll,

  • it'll give just a little slight ever bit but it won't let things break

  • so energy kind of passes with this stuff.

  • And we'll tie this whole thing together.

  • We'll work from the back forward, okay?

  • CAROL: Yup.

  • CHIP: People have been making kids' toys for forever.

  • Caveman probably had a big ass rock he like, beat things to death with,

  • gave his kid a rock, you know what I'm saying?

  • So that's how I look at it.

  • I wanna make the kid happy.

  • If, uh, that sled is beautiful in the eye of that beholder, then I'll be glad.

  • Wade can play with the thing, and then they can always throw him on it and drag him around.

  • It ain't gonna be so small that they'll be fragile.

  • I'm gonna make this sucker tough.

  • Okay! We are done!

  • Let's clean up.

  • Wasn't that worth just, the time we've put into it?

  • CAROL: Yup. CHIP: Good little sled.

  • Okay, I'm gonna go set this out there and

  • try not to let Wade see it so he doesn't want to play with it yet.

  • Making things is how we've made a living, you know?

  • Instead of buying sleds, we've just been able to obtain wood,

  • put some work into it and make sleds.

  • So, if you really want to have the best, you'll make it.

  • If you want to have it at all, you'll make it.

  • If I want my grandson to have it, I'll make it.

  • GLENN: Whether it's a human preying on them or a pack of wolves,

  • you're never going to find a moose out here in this country dying of old age.

  • That's just all part of the natural cycle.

  • (bones cracking)

  • (groans)

  • There.

  • NARRATOR: Glenn has successfully harvested a moose,

  • providing his family with a winter's worth of much-needed protein.

  • With the meat processed, he now begins the back-breaking

  • task of transporting each large segment home before darkness falls.

  • GLENN: There! I got it!

  • That's the last piece I had to separate.

  • Okay. I've got my moose all cut up.

  • Thankfully, Trisha, Amelia, and Agatha came over with a sled.

  • One of the biggest challenges of moose hunting is just getting the animal home.

  • After I get it down, I've got an awful lot of weight to move.

  • First moose I ever moved out here, I carried the entire thing on my back.

  • Eleven loads, and my back was in such bad shape after that

  • I laid in bed for about five days.

  • Couldn't move.

  • Then I got smart.

  • I got a sled the next year.

  • A simple thing, a plastic sled.

  • But it sure can help out.

  • There's the canoe!

  • So far, so good.

  • But I got hundreds and hundreds and pounds here to move.

  • I need to get it to where my family can make use of it.

  • (Bleep). Totally broke my sled.

  • That neck is the heaviest, most difficult piece of meat for me to get in the canoe.

  • Only way I was able to get it in there was to drag the whole sled in,

  • and I broke the sled.

  • Not very nice.

  • Hopefully this is still gonna be adequate to get the rest of the meat down.

  • But that's what I got to deal with.

  • This sled is necessary for me to get this moose out of the woods.

  • Without it, I'm gonna have a big problem.

  • A sled's a basic piece of equipment.

  • It's right up there with my rifle, my knife, and my canoe.

  • Basic transportation.

  • I got eight or nine loads to go, hopefully this thing holds up.

  • There. Looks like my sled's in three pieces now.

  • But it's still helping a lot.

  • Broken sled's better than no sled.

  • Really my biggest concern at this point is just getting

  • it back before any big scavenger finds it.

  • I mean there are definitely bears around, and wolves, or wolverines.

  • If any of those animals find this meat before I get it all back into camp,

  • they'll destroy it.

  • What I've got to think about is getting the job done before anything else gets to it.

  • This thing is falling apart.

  • ♪ ♪

  • GLENN: This thing is falling apart.

  • Sled came apart.

  • Oh, boy.

  • This sled's busted right in half now.

  • This is gonna be a problem.

  • Sled broke, things happen, you gotta find a solution.

  • I got to make some kind of emergency improvisation here.

  • See what I can do.

  • If I can just get this the next 75 yards down to the shore,

  • I'll have a full canoe load.

  • I can go home.

  • I got another sled there I can bring back over.

  • Problem is just getting this, I can't lift it up

  • and carry it across this tussocky ground down to that beach.

  • No way.

  • But I might be able to do something here.

  • This is the biggest piece.

  • Put a hole in there.

  • If I just shingle it like this, I'm taking the two biggest pieces,

  • overlap them, try to latch it back together.

  • Put the heaviest part of the meat right here in the front,

  • have the hoof dragging out the back.

  • I think I might be able to make it to the beach that way.

  • A lot of times I've been in difficult situations and not had much to work with.

  • But if you stop, think about it, and use your head, you can find a solution.

  • Hey, it's sliding.

  • It's a funny thing, I've been doing this for years.

  • And every year, it's difficult.

  • You have to wonder, like, why am I making getting food so complicated?

  • But after it's all done and you're sitting down there, eating that tenderloin.

  • You forget all this pain and suffering.

  • It all goes away so fast.

  • When you bite into that first juicy steak, there's nothing that tastes the same as meat

  • that you hunted yourself and put the effort into getting back home

  • and putting on the table.

  • There. Okay.

  • You get attached to your tools out here.

  • I get attached to my tools because I depend on them so much.

  • This sled right here, I've had it for years.

  • I've moved literally thousands of pounds of meat with this sled,

  • and that's the last load of meat this sled's ever going to move.

  • We shared some pretty good times together.

  • I've been working 18 hours.

  • I got to grab a bite to eat in camp, get a little rest,

  • and get back as soon as I can before anything gets that meat.

  • I've always operated alone, so I'm used to taking that risk.

  • JESSIE: I enjoy the uncertainty that winter brings and I enjoy just stepping up

  • to the challenge of whatever it brings.

  • Getting my dog food, uh, cooker loaded up with some wood before I head out to go

  • check my traps and see if I got any action out there.

  • Set some traps a couple of days ago.

  • So, hopefully I got something in those traps.

  • The temperature has dropped, so definitely gonna probably be seeing a lot of changes out

  • there and a lot more ice.

  • Uh, definitely feels like winter has finally got here.

  • Get this fire going here and, uh, that way my dog food will be cooked this evening

  • whenever I get home and, uh, it's kind of the start to every day around here.

  • Get a good routine going, and then you can, uh, be able to afford some time to go out

  • and hopefully get some beaver right now.

  • It's a good time of year to be able to be out watching what these beaver are doing.

  • If you don't get out and look around, you just don't know what's out there.

  • Opportunity is all over out here you just got to get out and go out and find it.

  • I mean, when I go out there in the woods, opportunity tends to cross my path

  • and I'm the type of person that takes advantage of that.

  • I see some movement up there.

  • Looks like a grouse.

  • I'm gonna try to take a shot at it with my .22 here.

  • (gunshot)

  • Got it! All right, man! Awesome!

  • I haven't seen many grouse around this year.

  • Come out here to go check my beaver traps, brought my gun with me, found a grouse.

  • With the snow being on the ground, and this bird being dark,

  • it stuck right out to me, you know.

  • And I was able to see it out of the corner of my eye moving.

  • Just like I was the other day, using my surroundings to my advantage with, uh,

  • hunting the rabbits because they're white on dark ground, this is the reverse of that.

  • Clean, organic meat right here.

  • This is the best.

  • This is just a bonus for going out here to check my traps.

  • This is gonna be delicious.

  • Gonna eat this first thing tonight.

  • One of the things that I love about living out here is you just get out in the backyard

  • and you start putting in some effort and you can come away with something to eat,

  • and that's a very pleasurable feeling.

  • It's a valuable use of my time.

  • I love to just go out and walk and hunt.

  • Opportunity presents itself, come away with a bird to eat.

  • Getting closer over here to my first trap.

  • Hoping to get at least one beaver would be real nice.

  • Trap number one, the moment of truth.

  • No, nothing in there.

  • We're gonna go check the other ones.

  • Definitely froze up overnight.

  • Hopefully those beavers came out for one last snack on the bank.

  • Before this ice froze up.

  • Yup, nothing in these traps here.

  • This is trap two and trap number three, nothing in there.

  • Still got one more trap to check.

  • I'm going over to check my fourth trap.

  • It's not like the other three traps.

  • I put this one under the water so it's under the ice so there's a way bigger

  • chance that I'm gonna have a beaver in this set than

  • these other sets cause these beavers,

  • they can't come out up on the bank anymore with this ice, so.

  • Oh, wow. There's definitely some broken up ice over here.

  • I might have something in this one.

  • My trap is under the ice right here.

  • I can't really see underneath this.

  • It's frozen pretty thick.

  • There's the trap.

  • JESSIE: This is definitely my highest hopes for

  • having something in this trap right here.

  • There's the trap and there's nothing in it.

  • I thought we had warm enough weather that this ice wasn't gonna develop.

  • This ice right here prevents the beavers from coming up

  • into my traps that are on the bank.

  • About in one more week, I'll be able to walk out on this ice

  • and I can set some traps underneath it that I know are gonna be productive.

  • I know I'm gonna get these beavers at some point.

  • I come out here and I found a good location.

  • That's a good thing to have in my back pocket and know that it's out here.

  • With the way the conditions are right now there's no point in leaving these traps here.

  • These traps aren't going to do any good here so I'm gonna spring them,

  • take them home.

  • Didn't come away with any beaver,

  • but as soon as that ice thickens up,

  • I'll be able to go out there and reset those traps.

  • Right now I got, you know, some nice rabbits to cook up

  • and a nice grouse I'd picked up on the way.

  • And I'm about to have myself a meal.

  • Looking forward to going home and having a nice fire

  • and cooking up some of this fresh meat.

  • This is one rabbit and this grouse here will be a couple days' worth of food.

  • Putting in the effort, come out with the reward.

  • Now, I get to enjoy the reward here and, uh, eat myself some fresh rabbit.

  • Hmm. That's good, real good.

  • My grandpa really liked hunting rabbits.

  • I feel like if he was here,

  • he'd be real proud of the way I'm living and that makes me feel good.

  • This is a real transition time of year here.

  • It's gonna be winter real soon.

  • You really just gotta adapt to living by the cycles of the land here,

  • you know, and the seasons.

  • And the, know where the animals are, and know when you can get them.

  • One of my biggest beliefs out here that's really helped me with everything is to devote

  • yourself to the perfection of whatever it is you pursue.

  • To pursue everything with hard work, dignity, integrity, and persistence.

  • Maybe sometimes I'll have a little luck but that luck is a residue of design.

  • Every time I go out there, things are gonna happen.

  • But I got to go out there to make them happen.

  • And I enjoy that kind of lifestyle.

  • That's a lifestyle that always keeps you on your toes, always keeps you moving.

  • I had my trials and my tribulations but I kept coming at it

  • and kept coming at it and here I am now.

  • Learning every year how to thrive and survive more.

  • GLENN: Many years ago, I had a vision of what I wanted to do.

  • To live off the land.

  • Hunt for my food, live in the wilderness.

  • And the Brooks Range is the place.

  • This weighs about 100 pounds.

  • Pretty big head.

  • NARRATOR: After hunting a bull moose, Glenn places the final piece on his meat rack,

  • culminating in a winter's worth of protein for himself and his family.

  • GLENN: There! Got the meat hung up.

  • Air can circulate around it.

  • This is good, it's already getting a dry crust.

  • And that's the key to preserving meat.

  • So this meat's gonna be okay.

  • That meat's not gonna spoil.

  • As long as it's kept dry and clean, hanging there with good air circulation around it,

  • it'll be just fine until it freezes.

  • Nice chunk of fat right there.

  • What an awesome hunt!

  • Walking around this lake, looking for this moose.

  • Unbelievable, gorgeous country.

  • I sure got my exercise.

  • It was a lot of work, but this is the payoff.

  • AMELIA: Agatha, you're gonna eat a tongue and tenderloin.

  • GLENN: All right. Let's have some dinner.

  • TRISHA: Yum. GLENN: Yeah, it's finger food.

  • TRISHA: It's finger food. GLENN: Moose tongue!

  • AMELIA: (Inaudible) of course. TRISHA: Oh, lucky you.

  • GLENN: Hmm. Moose tongue, it's been a year!

  • Makes me think of the first time I ever got a moose out here.

  • And, uh, I put so much energy into it.

  • Hunted for about two weeks, got a moose and I was just sitting here enjoying all the

  • different tasty tidbits for the first time.

  • But I was all by myself.

  • Didn't have anybody to share it with.

  • This is so much nicer, having you all here.

  • TRISHA: More? Oh, my goodness.

  • GLENN: Oh, she's totally into it!

  • More, more, more.

  • TRISHA: Show Mommy what you want.

  • GLENN: Isn't that good, Agatha?

  • Yeah? Moose tongue!

  • It took a while to get it all together, but you know this was my dream.

  • It's what I always wanted to do, live out in the wilderness with my family.

  • One of my basic philosophies in life, know yourself, know what makes you happy,

  • and then pursue it.

  • And that's what I did here.

  • I wanted to live in the wilderness.

  • I wanted to have a family out here.

  • And I have it.

  • I have everything that really matters to me.

  • SUE: No matter where you are, home can be the coolest place on the planet of the Earth.

  • But it's good to get outside and get a stretch of the legs.

  • I've got my ptarmigan in there.

  • The oil, that's actually bear fat that's rendered down.

  • Some spices, I'm adding some spinach from my garden.

  • I take it and I freeze it.

  • These are some mushrooms I got earlier in the year.

  • It was a good day.

  • Did I fail at killing the bear, taking, harvesting the meat and the fur?

  • Yes, 100%. But, is it really a failure?

  • No! I got my, my little Sue-craft out and got it together.

  • Went down the river in it, got a whole new perspective.

  • There's definitely predators up around and walking, walking the riverbank.

  • A little white wine, some for the bird, some for me.

  • What did I learn out of the whole event?

  • I better keep myself prepared.

  • If I want to live this lifestyle for a long time, I've got to remember.

  • You've got to be prepared.

  • It's not just for the moment.

  • You got to be prepared for anything.

  • Nature always wins here.

  • CHIP: I want my kids to take what they have got and start their own.

  • I don't want to run them out of the house, but I keep encouraging them.

  • I want them to succeed.

  • IRIQTAQ: Wade, come here! Wade, Momma wants you!

  • AGNES: Your parka's done!

  • These last few days, uh, we've been putting all our attention to our, my grandson.

  • We just put a parka together and Chip and Caroline built him a sled and, um,

  • it's good just to see my whole family help raise up my daughter Idi's son.

  • CHIP: Oh, wow! That looks real fluffy too!

  • Yeah, are you gonna try to put it on?

  • AGNES: Yup. No need to worry about you.

  • CHIP: Yup, nobody can worry about you when you're wearing this!

  • TINMIAQ: And if you fall for some reason in the water, you'll float, hi, baby!

  • CHIP: Oh, there he is. Turn around, let's see!

  • There you go. That's really good.

  • He can pull his arms in!

  • And if he had to, pull his cuffs down.

  • Yup, he's ready to go out, isn't he?

  • IRIQTAQ: Come and put your boots on, right there.

  • TINMIAQ: Wear your boots.

  • CHIP: Come on, I'll put my boots on real quick.

  • I've got a sled out here you're gonna like.

  • IRIQTAQ: Gonna play outside with your parkie.

  • IRIQTAQ: Ooh, Dada got you a sled!

  • (barking)

  • CHIP: Come on, jump on board!

  • IRIQTAQ: Wow!

  • TINMIAQ: Wanna go like that? One, two, three!

  • IRIQTAQ: Whoa! Wow, perfect!

  • Want to try again?

  • CHIP: Me and Carol got together and we made him a little sled, and then, uh,

  • the ladies took some skins and threw together a nice little parkie.

  • And when the deep cold comes, he'll be able to travel and

  • stay with his mom and dad no matter what the temperature is.

  • We don't have a worry in the world.

  • So, that's what you want for your children.

  • Give them the best, make it yourself if you have to.

  • IRIQTAQ: Whoa!

  • CHIP: What more could a little kid want?

  • And as long as you can give a kid a little something, you know,

  • let him know you appreciate him, he'll enjoy it.

  • I don't know if he knows the concept, but he'll figure it out.

  • AGNES: He loves it!

  • Even your parka!

  • As an Inupiaq Eskimo, it's very important for me to

  • pass down my knowledge to my children.

  • And we all worked together on this project and we all just managed to put it together

  • and made a parka that fits the boy so perfectly.

  • And, uh, he'll be nice and warm, and, uh, every stitch was made with love.

  • TINMIAQ: Let me slide with you.

  • Come on, feet up.

  • Make room for me! Make room!

  • AGNES: Wow, even auntie could fit.

  • TINMIAQ: Woo! Yeah!

  • IRIQTAQ: It's, um, it's always great to see your, all your own kid's really happy.

  • He loved the parkie, he's gonna use it all winter.

  • And all of our hard work came together and it made a really great parkie that my son will

  • love and appreciate and will have for a very long time.

  • Just a perfect parkie for the perfect boy.

  • AGNES: Wow.

  • CHIP: Hey, you're gonna drag him the whole way.

  • Well, we'll let them play, huh?

  • TINMIAQ: Yeah. AGNES: Yeah.

  • CHIP: You, guys, wanna go inside?

  • AGNES: Yup.

  • CHIP: We'll be inside making lunch!

  • IRIQTAQ: Okay! I'm gonna play out here for a bit.

  • Growing up going back and forth to camp, you know I grew up

  • learning a lot of traditional and cultural ways of doing things.

  • I've grown up where I've eaten the cultural food and I grew up

  • healthily and happily off those kinds of things.

  • For my mom to be able to teach me something like making that parkie,

  • it's, you know, it's touching.

  • I love that I'm able to do something like that and be able to

  • make it as beautiful as we all made it turn out to be.

  • So I'm really thankful for the way that my parents have raised me.

  • And I'm thankful that I'm able to pass that on to my son.

  • Captioned by Cotter Captioning Services.

SUE: All right.

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    林宜悉 に公開 2021 年 01 月 21 日
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