(dogs barking)
JESSIE HOLMES: Beautiful summer day.
It’s time to get out and explore.
Got all my fishing gear, heading down to a spot
about six miles from here by river.
Supposed to be some legendary fishing,
and I’m gonna go find out if it’s true or not.
This is the best time of the year
to get out and enjoy summer.
Mostly, all I can remember of living in Brushkana
is grinding, grinding, grinding.
Working to build, get ready for winter.
All the work that I’ve put in,
I’m starting to get to really enjoy the country.
I’ve been running a lot this summer.
So, I’m gonna float down seven miles,
and then I’m gonna pack back eight miles
and I’m gonna run most of it.
You know, my setup is designed for lightness.
Ultimate destination is the mouth of the Brushkana
where it hits the Nenana River.
I might not be able to have a river boat out here like I used to,
but this pack raft has taken me some places.
Looking forward to where it’s taking me today.
Damn boulders in these rapids sure do make it hard.
You get moving fast, smack into one.
Whoo!
So much fun.
This is wild country.
You never know what’s around each bend.
So, that’s why I go out there,
because of the excitement of exploring
and being on the river.
A lot of people would love to be able
to just spend a day out here,
and I get to spend every day out here.
Water has just always been therapeutic to me
ever since I was a young man.
Always liked being around water, out in the ocean.
Now to have this awesome highway right here
in my yard down to the Nenana River.
Whoo, water’s moving pretty fast,
but, oh man, it’s really low this year.
You hit one of those boulders and flip over, it’s just a...
...long list of things that could happen.
Damn, the water’s low this year.
Makes this a lot harder.
Nice to be able to just kick back for a minute,
relax in the slow water.
This is beautiful.
The water’s crystal clear,
and the mountains are out.
It is going to be an awesome day.
There could be loads of big fish down there.
SUE AIKENS: It’s not that the square peg
doesn’t fit the round hole, it does.
You just need a bigger sledgehammer
and a lot more force.
Alrighty.
Let’s see if I can get these off.
(laughs)
I want to build a garden center.
The area off the end of the runway
is a beautiful, clear, flat patch of ground.
And it’s perfect
for what I want to use it for.
I’ll be jockeying ’em around a little bit.
You can kind of see the idea here.
The fence line is gonna come around here
and then get attached here.
If you didn’t have anything,
with these winds, it’d be flopping all over the place.
You have to have something heavy
sitting in place...
...so that it retains its shape.
Let me eyeball that.
How do I turn an idea about a garden center into a plan?
My brain starts working on, how am I gonna make a fence
to keep the animals from just walking in,
crawling over,
flying into,
or drifting by?
Before I use something I spent a lot of money on,
like lumber, plywood,
what can I use that’s already had a life purpose
that I maybe don’t need to pay to send to town to the trash?
I don’t live in close proximity to a town
or someplace where I can purchase products
that I can build things with.
I’ve got 40 some barrels,
and I can make a fence line for a new garden center.
Got a couple of young caribou out there.
Sounds like they heard the salad bar was going in.
(chuckles)
Man, this wind is relentless.
It feels like winter even though I’m spring, technically.
I’ve got plants that I planted about a month ago.
I’ve got to get them out of the dining hall
and the greenhouse.
Plants have got to sink or swim.
They’re dying
because they’re not in deeper soil.
The little plants are gonna have a hard time, maybe,
adjusting to the cold,
but the hearty will survive.
That’s the only thing that survives up here.
Trying to build the garden center,
it’s been in the 20s.
It’s what most people would call winter,
not spring.
And they certainly wouldn’t go,
"Mm, let’s get that garden going, baby.
It’s time to plant some beans."
But it doesn’t take but a day or two,
and my world shifts and it’s warm.
So, I’ve got to get the work done.
It doesn’t matter what the weather is.
I’m kind of happy it’s taking shape.
It’s looking like an intended garden center.
CHIP HAILSTONE: Good old-fashioned play outside,
get bit by the bugs, burnt by the sun,
wet from the rain, that’s the way I grew up.
Me and Wade went upriver, and we got some poles.
And I got, uh, 16 of them.
Gonna make a teepee for Carol and Skyler.
Carol’s birthday’s coming up and if we get started now,
we’ll be able to have them a nice little place to stay
while they’re down here.
There’s your mom.
AGNES HAILSTONE (off screen): Wow, Wade,
you know how to jump out with the rope?
CHIP: He’s got it together.
Good-looking poles, there.
CHIP: Yeah, 16 of them from upriver.
Got the birthday girl coming.
We got Mary and Preston and Rose.
We’ll have Ed, Skyler, and Carol joining us.
This will be a pretty cool present if we get it done in time.
Teepee’s great because they can be
put up anywhere, taken down anywhere.
You don’t have to drive any stakes in.
You can go off on the ice and go fishing
and, uh, knock a hole in the ice and put your tepee over it
if you want to stay the night there.
I need to peel some poles.
So, cut them all the same size.
They’re about the same width and grith.
I’m gonna make a tripod so I can hold it up
and work at it instead of having
to be stooped and get a bad back.
So, can always do a little something
to make ourselves better.
I don’t scrape poles too often.
It’s kind of stooped over, and my back’s not too happy,
but I’m happy I’m done before my back is mad.
Nobody likes that.
Just about done.
Well, damn skippy. It’s pretty nice right there.
Tomorrow will be a beautiful day,
and the ladies can lay out their canvas
and, oh, get it done.
RICKO DEWILDE: It’s in our nature
to try to look out for our offspring,
and hopefully they carry on the torch of survival.
RICKO: Pretty back there.
Man, that almost looks like a moose laying there.
Me and Skyler are traveling
along the Huslia River right now.
We’re looking around for a moose.
I see a moose.
SKYLER DEWILDE (off screen): That’s a cow.
-RICKO: That’s a cow? -SKYLER: And a calf.
RICKO: Usually, we don’t hunt moose this time of year,
but there’s a memorial potlatch
coming up in Huslia,
and part of the memorial potlatch
is, uh, having a lot of food on the table
for the last day of the potlatch
where everybody gathers.
-Cute little baby calf. -SKYLER: Yeah, it’s cute.
RICKO: Keep moving. I don’t want to disturb them.
The memorial potlatch
is really important to our people
because that’s how we let go of that person’s spirit.
For Skyler to have the responsibility
of catching a moose and putting food on the table
is a very important thing,
because he’s doing something
that has very strong cultural significance.
Look at that big beaver house.
SKYLER (off screen): It looks like it.
RICKO: Real muskrat country right here.
SKYLER: Can we try for muskrat right now?
RICKO: Yeah, there, you can get muskrat right now.
Oh, moose right there, Sky!
Sky, moose right there.
Don’t monkey around, Sky. You got to be ready.
SKYLER: I didn’t do nothing.
RICKO: He might be right around the corner.
Just be still.
Might’ve jumped the crick and went across.
We’ll just idle along.
Oh, right there, Sky.
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RICKO: That’s a cow. That’s a cow.
If it don’t have a calf, we can get it,
but I want to make sure.
Hold on. Hold. Hold.
There’s no, uh, antler base on it?
SKYLER: I don’t see nothing.
RICKO: We’ll just let it go, maybe.
We’ll let it go. That’s a cow moose.
SKYLER: I want to check and look again.
Yeah, it’s a cow.
RICKO: It don’t look like it have a calf, though.
It don’t have a big stomach, so it’s not pregnant.
But it’s young.
It’s real young, Sky.
SKYLER: Like how old?
RICKO: It’s probably two years old.
Legally, we can take that moose, but it’s a young cow.
We can get a cow with no calf or we can get a bull.
We don’t want to shoot a young cow.
Lot of times, they’re struggling.
They’re growing fast right now,
so their body weight’s low.
Not the best time to catch them.
We have to be selective of what we hunt.
That’s part of the respect of hunting
is you got to work with the land,
not against the land.
Okay, we’ll keep checking it out around here.
There’s a badass tree I can climb over here.
You see that tree over there
with the limbs knocked off of it?
SKYLER: Yeah.
RICKO: Country like this, big, open area,
sometimes you just hang out, and an animal will come out.
When you get to a good moose-hunting country
and you know it’s good, you get up high in a tree
and you can look over a large area,
especially around these lakes.
Climbing a tree ain’t for the faint of heart.
SKYLER: Pick places to go?
RICKO: Yeah, main thing is watch your foot.
SKYLER: Okay.
RICKO: Your hands will be the first thing
to start getting tired ’cause you tend
to hang on so hard when you get scared.
How are you doing, Sky?
SKYLER: Trying my best not to fall.
RICKO: If you don’t feel like climbing higher,
just don’t climb any higher.
SKYLER: I’m like right behind you.
Whoa.
RICKO: It’s crazy, huh?
SKYLER: Can I go up higher?
RICKO: You’re not even scared of heights.
-I’m, like, scared. -(Skyler chuckles)
RICKO: I’m not going any higher.
I’m freaked out.
You’re good?
SKYLER: Yeah.
RICKO: Oh, you see that dark spot?
There’s a moose right there.
He’s way on the other side
of the lake in that weeds.
-You see him? -SKYLER: Yeah.
RICKO: Ah, so let’s go check it out.
SKYLER: Should I go down?
RICKO: Yeah.
Watch your feet going down.
SKYLER: I am.
RICKO: Don’t get too brave.
Let’s go look for that moose. We know there’s one across here.
Okay, let’s go.
SUE: You could prepare for all kinds of scenarios,
what are you going to do with what’s handed to you?
You have to react with what you’re given.
I have my fencing,
and I have one million and one tools,
’cause I have no idea how I’m doing this.
None.
This is gonna be
kind of a learn as I go thing.
I’ve got to and I want to expand my garden area.
I need to get it taut
across the tops maybe.
I got camp all the way over there.
That’s about a mile.
Typically, that’s not where people want
to put their gardens,
but the garden is a curiosity.
Every animal here is interested in the nutrition it holds.
If I have the garden center right in camp,
the animals are gonna come in camp.
Bears are gonna be curious.
Bears don’t eat just meat.
One of their favorite foods when they wake up
are the roots of plants.
So, you have a lot of animals
that want to get at these plants.
But, uh, I don’t mind doing my fair share
to make sure I’ve got food.
Products are hard to get.
Food is hard to get.
I can order stuff in town, and by god,
you’d better have golden underwear to pay for it.
So, I need to come up with ways
that I can supplement what I’m doing,
that I can feed myself if I want to stay here.
I can’t hunt for an animal and serve it to my clients.
That’s hunting for profit.
It is illegal, and it should be.
You shouldn’t be able to take out
a bunch of animals and profit by it.
But growing the vegetables?
That I can do.
Any little bit that I can assure
my own thrival,
bet your bottom dollar I’m gonna get it done.
So, how important is doing the garden center?
Immensely.
Immensely important.
This is just to help keep it taut.
Stability, stability, stability.
Time for me to get my plots going
and then get some form of gate
so that the dirt is safe.
Time to rock and roll.
JESSIE: If I broke for adversity,
I would have been broken a long time ago.
But every time I break, I come back stronger.
It’s relaxing, it’s calming being in this calm water.
I got to learn a lot more about the Brushkana.
The first part of it, you gotta paddle
for your life, you know, so you don’t flip over
and get smashed up by a boulder.
And then this next stretch, you gotta paddle
because that’s the only way you’re gonna move.
There’s hardly any current the last three miles.
It’s been a nice mellow float.
NARRATOR: Jessie Holmes is on an expedition
through the newly thawed Brushkana waterways.
In search of a fishing hole he’s only heard whispers of.
If the fishing hole produces Arctic grayling
in the abundance of local lore,
Jessie will have a new spring food source
for years to come.
JESSIE: I fish to eat out here,
but I also fish as an enjoyment.
You know, I love going out as an outdoorsman
and checking out these different fishing holes
and try to improve my technique of fly fishing
which I never did until I moved out here.
Got my pack all packed up,
and now I’m ready to do some fishing.
I see a fish jumping right there, man.
I can’t wait to get some line in the water.
This is just gonna be epic fly fishing
all the way up and down this.
No way!
(bleep)
JESSIE: (bleep
Ow!
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JESSIE: (bleep)
How the hell did I break another fly rod?
I can’t have anything nice.
This is a big trip, this is like a whole day
of, like, physical endurance, you know.
I’m trying to survive the rapids,
smacking off of boulders.
That’s probably exactly how I broke this. I can’t...
I thought that it was safe in the raft with me,
but I think I must’ve smacked against a boulder
and I got this much rod left.
I should be able to get a fly out there.
There’s fish everywhere so...
I mean, I’m gonna give it a try.
I didn’t come all the way down here
just to go home, you know.
One thing I know is you can tie a frigging line to a stick
and catch fish if you needed to in a survival situation,
so why not make this work?
I see some fish right there.
You can’t sweat the small things in life.
I still got a fly, I still got some line,
and I got half a rod.
Got ’em.
Oh my gosh. Oh no.
He almost got away there. Nice fish.
First fish, you know, good luck, I’m gonna turn it loose
and, uh, keep fishing, you know.
I know I’m gonna get something to cook up here
when I get a little bit hungrier for lunch,
and then I’m gonna pack up my raft
and hike back home with a good, full belly.
I see fish just going by everywhere, it’s so cool.
If I had my fly rod working correctly,
it would be pulling in fish left and right,
but I’m still even able to do it with a little adversity.
I’m making the best of it.
This is incredible.
Watch this one coming right up to me.
Bam!
Ha ha ha.
Another nice little fish.
Here you go, guy. Go on back, grow bigger.
I wanna catch one for dinner.
I’ll keep the nicest one I get, you know.
I’ll know when it’s the fish for me.
It’s really unique to be able to watch
the fish down here in the water.
It’s not like that where I live.
There’s so much rapids in the water,
you can’t see under the water.
Alright, got one.
That’s the one that’s gonna get cooked up.
That’s a good, uh, fifteen and a half inch fish right there.
Perfect meal.
AGNES: Having the kids out here seeing and doing,
it’ll bring them up to want to live this lifestyle.
I think we got plenty of sewing to do.
We could take these,
and we could fold it over like this
and then stitch ’em.
So right now, our plan is to make a new teepee here.
Carolyn and Skylar are coming here
for Carol’s birthday,
and we’re making Carolyn her own teepee
so they have a place that’ll be waterproof
and warm every time they come down here.
And having this teepee is a good start for them
to gather their own stuff
and have their own stuff here in Kiwalik.
TINMIAQ HAILSTONE: Ever since I was young, I’ve always been sewing
with my parents.
For special occasions,
I like to hand sew a lot of things
All she needed left was a little teepee-styled tent,
and now she’ll have it made out of love from all of us.
AGNES: We take the time to work with each other.
I taught the girls to enjoy sewing together.
When you have lots to do, you work together,
and that way the work is not a burden.
And we usually enjoy ourselves out here.
So this teepee’s coming along pretty good,
and hopefully by the end of the day, we’ll have a teepee.
So tomorrow, the kids and everybody should be showing up.
It’s gonna be an awesome time here in Kiwalik.
TINMIAQ: Are we gonna put the teepee up
before Carol comes here?
AGNES: I guess we could put it up,
and that way when she comes, we can just have
a birthday party in her tent.
(thunder rumbling)
It’s about to start raining.
TINMIAQ: Oh, I feel it. Do you guys feel it? Cold.
AGNES: We gotta roll up this stuff.
We don’t want it to get wet.
TINMIAQ: Wow, we get pretty close to done.
At least we got halfways.
AGNES: Wow. Lucky we look up, eh?
TINMIAQ: Yup.
AGNES: Those rain clouds are coming.
Next time the rain clouds come,
we’ll go under the teepee.
SUE: There’s a million and one things
you can do to make your life more complete.
But are you wearing blinders
or have you lifted your head up,
squared your shoulders, and looked?
Come on.
When these boxes are no longer needed
for their intended purpose,
then I’ve repurposed them
into, uh, garden plots.
I’m at the point finally,
of getting my little plots in place.
Whoa.
I don’t know if I can make it in with this.
Let’s try it from a different angle.
Misjudged the distance.
Well, if I didn’t have these damn chains on,
then I could do it.
Well, that certainly is gonna make it
a little bit more of a pickle.
Mismeasured it by an inch.
If I didn’t have the tracks on, I could probably skate right in.
Let’s get ready to rumble, ’cause I’m gonna sweat.
(grunting)
I really don’t want to move that barrel.
I have everything taut, the way that I want it.
And there’s a part of me that, once you get it perfect,
you don’t screw it up.
(bleep)
But moving those boxes, it’s very difficult.
They’re out in the weather, they’re wet,
and they are really heavy.
(panting)
Some of it’s all I can do to move them.
It is slow, back-breaking labor.
Ugh!
(groaning)
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SUE (off screen): What I’m gonna do now is,
uh, I’ve gotta raise these beds
up off the ground.
I’m just gonna get going, lift and huff
and, and get this job done.
Bring all my barrels in first.
I have to get them lifted.
If I leave them on the ground and you water them,
the permafrost, the permanently frozen ground,
will reach up to meet it.
So you have to get that air going in between,
and you have to give that water a place to drain.
(grunts)
(sighs)
Tell you, I got to stop myself when I have these ideas.
(groaning)
When I’m doing the garden,
I’m not just seeing today’s job,
I’m seeing the future as well.
I want it aesthetically pleasing,
but it has to be useful.
(groans)
It has to be futuristically useful.
And as I get 60, 65, 70...
(grunting)
...I need it to be the right way
because I’m not gonna be moving them forever.
Down.
We even?
Aah!
Done.
Awesome.
I now have garden plots.
Go me! The project is going good.
I’m not done yet.
But the body is weary,
and I don’t have it in me tonight to do more.
RICKO: Blood is always thicker than water.
No matter what, family is everything,
and we stand by each other a hundred percent.
There’s a monster grizzly that lives around here.
RICKO: Because I hunt around here.
It’s like its feet is like...
...kind of sasquatch feet.
It’ll corral moose and everything.
It’s a badass.
Oh, Sky, big moose, big moose.
Hold on, we look for a calf.
Or is there, is there antlers on it?
Oh yeah. There’s antlers on it, Sky.
You see those antlers?
SKYLER: Yeah.
RICKO: Okay.
SKYLER: What?
No. No, please.
RICKO: You got it?
Hit it hard.
Okay.
(whistling)
(gunshot)
You’re shooting through the brush, pretty hard to do.
You got to have that gun ready when it’s time to shoot, Sky.
SKYLER: I thought it was loaded.
It was on safety and everything.
RICKO: You’re in charge of that gun.
SKYLER: I know, it’s my fault.
RICKO: You got to be ready for this.
You just got to check the barrel and stuff.
There, it’s a big flinch when you’re shooting too.
You’re gonna have to practice more.
SKYLER: You couldn’t even see if I flinched or not.
We seen a moose.
I barely seen it.
It was through brush and everything.
I didn’t have a good shot.
I missed. It’s gone.
Whenever I get excited, I kind of like, shake,
I’m nervous, and I end up missing.
RICKO: Skyler’s feeling really, really bummed out,
I could tell, and I just got to tell him, you know,
take your time,
breathe good, think before you shoot.
Trigger flinch is the number one way you’re gonna miss.
Don’t stress though about it. I have that.
I have the same problem too. Everybody has that problem.
It’s just something you have to cure.
But what you want to do is hold it on target,
and you want that gun to go off
when you don’t know it’s gonna go off.
Just a light squeeze.
That way, you don’t flinch.
RICKO (whispering): Sky, Sky, Sky, Sky.
We’ll come around the corner. It’ll be right there.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
It’s on your right. Right there.
Look there.
(gunshot)
(ducks quacking)
I think you hit him, huh?
SKYLER: I don’t know. It stopped and then ran again.
RICKO: I don’t know if you hit that one.
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SKYLER: I missed again.
RICKO: Thought you might’ve hit it.
Oh, I think you got it.
-SKYLER: Huh? -RICKO: I think I hear it.
SKYLER: I did?
RICKO: I think so.
Listen.
(moose bellowing)
Be careful.
Oh, he’s right there, he’s right there. Come--
SKYLER: Oh my gosh. I thought I missed.
RICKO: I heard you hit him.
If he gets up, we got to shoot him fast
’cause he might attack.
Have your gun ready, Sky.
(mimicking moose call)
RICKO: I think he’s done.
SKYLER: Do you want to just make sure?
RICKO: He’s done. His eyes are closed.
SKYLER: Oh my gosh.
RICKO: Good job.
Got a potlatch moose.
SKYLER: Anaa basee.
Got a moose for the potlatch. I feel really good.
Uh, a lot of people are gonna eat
because of me now, and I’m thankful.
RICKO: We’re gonna put a gun there
’cause there is hungry grizzlies right now.
We open this thing up, there’s gonna be a lot of blood.
They smell this blood right away,
especially they’ve been in the den all winter.
SKYLER: Flies already on it.
RICKO: A lot of bugs.
SKYLER: I don’t want them eating my moose.
RICKO: We got to dress it pretty fast, it’s hot out.
A lot of times, we like it
to cool down slowly so it’s not so tough.
But our main concern right now is the meat spoiling.
There we go.
(heavy breathing)
SKYLER: There’s moose head soup.
RICKO: Moose head soup is a delicacy.
Let’s grab the bottom leg and lift up.
SKYLER: I don’t think I can do this.
(both grunting)
RICKO: Keep going.
(both grunting)
Done these by myself before.
Ugh! There we go.
SKYLER: Oh my god.
RICKO: Okay.
Okay, let’s get to skinning.
Well, you could hold this right here.
Just hold it up.
Yeah, even having one arm free like that really helps me out.
’Cause I’ve done these by myself,
and it’s no easy task.
(groaning)
SKYLER: Am I allowed to question what is that?
RICKO: Just air coming out of its lungs.
-SKYLER: Oh. -RICKO: It’s hot out,
so its stomach is gonna expand right away.
All the air is going to want to come out from inside of it.
SKYLER: It’s fun hunting out with my dad.
Sometimes I’ll feel bad that I took an animal’s life,
but my dad always says that it presented itself to us.
And my dad said just be respectful to the land,
the animals,
and we’ll keep on getting more animals
coming out like that.
RICKO: What I do is pull that windpipe.
SKYLER: There’s so much blood.
RICKO: Here, lean back.
There you go, like that.
SKYLER: Whoa, there’s so much blood.
RICKO: Back in the day, they used to drink that.
-SKYLER: No way. -RICKO: Yeah.
A lot of kids his age or even grown adults,
they don’t want to butcher an animal.
They don’t want to get blood on their hands.
It’s important that my kids learn to hunt,
but also it’s important for them to learn to butcher the animal
and have the respect to get their hands dirty
when it’s time to get that animal home.
SKYLER: Blood got all over my arm.
RICKO: That’s okay.
Part of getting out here and hunting.
Part of getting food is getting blood on you.
The last thing I want to see is
a kid that’s afraid to get his hands dirty
and talking about, "Ew, it smells bad."
That’s very disrespectful
to the animal that gave its life,
so I’m really proud of my son.
He made the shot,
and he’s not afraid to get his hands dirty
to bring that meat home.
SKYLER: We cut the moose up.
It was hard. It takes a while to cut up a big moose.
It’s heavy. But I mean, we got it done.
We’re gonna bring it to the potlatch,
and people are gonna be happy for me
and be happy that I got it for them.
RICKO: Good hunt.
(exhales heavily)
JESSIE: In a very remote environment,
I just have to always be on the top of my game.
One wrong move could be it.
It might be a tough trip back,
so it’s good to pack in some calories
before I head out, you know.
Can’t go hungry out here,
if you’ve got a fishing rod, you know.
Obviously, you don’t even have to have one that works full-on.
You know, you could tie a line to a stick
and fashion something if you needed to.
That was a delicious fish.
Got a pretty long hike ahead of me,
you know, this is an easy country to walk in.
So this is good energy for me,
good to take a break.
I’ve had a lot of fun hanging around here fishing
but even more fun just sitting here eating.
Looking back towards my place and seeing,
you know, where I’m at, way up in the hills
and thinking about all the country I traveled
to get here and all the country I got
to travel back to get home.
I love backpacking and hiking.
It makes you strong. It keeps you fit.
There’s nothing like traveling in the wilderness
when you keep it simple, you know.
It’s these moments where I get, you know,
way out deep in the bush.
This is what really triggers my soul right here.
This is all I ever wanted to do from, like,
18 years old on.
This is the life I wanted to live.
I’ve been packing around in the mountains
and canoeing and kayaking
and doing all kinds of adventure things
for the past 22 years,
but the difference in that and now
is that I’m exploring my own piece of country.
It’s a real, uncomplicated life for me.
Oh wow, this is a nice patch of valerian right here.
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JESSIE: I’m gonna pick some of this and take it home with me.
Uh, this is a really good herb.
It helps you relax
and helps you get a really good healthy night’s sleep.
You know, you could, uh, get it in an herb store
or you could come out here and pick it yourself.
In my experience, you know, drinking tea,
the wild stuff is way better than the stuff
you could buy in the store in a bottle.
You know, a lot of people need caffeine
and coffee and stuff to get going.
Like, I more need stuff to get me to stop going.
I got so much damn energy.
I benefit more from a plant like this
that’s gonna relax me than I do from caffeine.
To never come home empty-handed is the goal so,
eyes always peeled for something that I can use for later.
I’m gonna have myself a cup of valerian tea
and have a good night’s sleep.
Exciting trip that I was all able to do in a day.
SUE: I’ve made Kavik
a part of my bloodstream.
I’m a five-year-old that’s building
a little Lego castle,
but it’s with big pieces.
Look at all this good dirt.
I’ve got to keep my plants healthy.
What I’m doing here today is the last bit
that I have to do to prepare
for when the weather gets better
in putting in the plants.
I am hovering at freezing.
These temperatures are brutal for the plants.
They’re not gonna survive at this 20- to 30-level.
So, what can I do?
I can make sure all the boxes are ready
and get the soil ready to receive the plants.
This one is ready to go.
I can put plants in there
as soon as the temperatures agree.
Any day, the temperatures can change.
I’m still not above freezing yet.
But I guarantee you, it will happen,
and it’s gonna happen like that.
It’s gonna happen in the blink of an eye.
It’s always a gamble
doing a garden this far north.
Um, beautiful 24-hour daylight
but trying to pick where you’re gonna do it
and trying to keep everything that wants it out.
Everything will eat this dirt
because it’s nutritious for them.
It’s got nitrogen. It’s got calcium.
Every animal out here that is starving
and they’re eating the bark off the willow.
They go... (sniffs)
Hoo.
Heck yeah.
Looking mighty good.
The other thing I brought
are a whole bunch of shed decorations
that I use around camp.
Come on now.
Nobody fight. You already lost the battle.
Other places, you’ve got your scarecrows.
I got scare-a-bous.
Seeing that, they’re gonna be like, "Sam? Pete? Tom?
"Sally? All of you guys?
"Mm, I think that salad bar might be tainted.
Uh, later."
It just denotes even further, this is mine, it is not yours.
These guys came too close. Look what happened to them.
Dual purpose.
Maybe it’ll keep somebody away.
But it also is like, "Hey, cool person lives here.
Awesome garden."
Feel really happy with how the garden center looks now.
It’s not just a bunch of barrels with some wire.
It looks cool. It’s awesome.
Looking pretty good actually.
I’m really proud of how it turned out.
Every single stinking thing,
except the little zippies, is repurposed.
That’s something to be damn proud of.
It looks good. It’s got strength.
It’s got character. It’s got strength of character.
One garden plot...
...ready for plants...
...as soon as time allows.
Nature has a way
of keeping its own timeclock.
It’s my job to meet it.
I’m ready for it,
the planter boxes are ready for it
and the scare-a-bous are ready for it.
Welcome to Sue’s garden. I did it!
AGNES: To share amongst your whole family,
it makes you rich person
and if you share, things always come back.
TINMIAQ: So we got to cut this half off
and trim it.
But I don’t know where by.
AGNES: Hi, honey.
TINMIAQ: This is the piece what,
one side to the other, and it ends right here.
So we got to cut this off and hem it
but we don’t know by where.
CHIP: Okay. Well, let’s put it over the frame.
Okay, let’s go up above our heads a little bit.
Okay, it should stay right about there. Stop.
Now, let’s pull that thing over.
TINMIAQ: Pull it, Qutan. Yep. There you go.
Little bit more, Dad.
There’s a middle piece. Almost there. There we go.
CHIP: Hi, grandson! You like the tent?
Look, we got teepee.
Come on, girls.
Just grab a corner and just go up a little bit.
Slightly, slightly, slightly, stop.
Looks pretty good.
AGNES: Yay!
CHIP: Okay, I got to go pick up everybody with the boat.
-TINMIAQ: Okay. -CHIP: I’ll see you guys in a while.
-TINMIAQ: We’ll be here. -CHIP: I’ll be back.
AGNES: Hi, Carol! Happy birthday!
Hey!
It’s Carol’s birthday.
IRIQTAQ HAILSTONE: Oh, good to see you.
EDWARD HAILSTONE: Yep. How are you?
(indistinct conversations)
AGNES: I’m so glad you made it.
We have a surprise for you.
CAROL HAILSTONE: Surprise?
Oh wow! Is this my surprise?
CHIP: This is your surprise. Take a look inside.
They haven’t got the door sewn on yet, but...
-TINMIAQ: Almost done. -CHIP: Take a step.
TINMIAQ: Beautiful.
You gonna go inside too?
CHIP: Get the bed back here.
Put your stove on this side.
Over here, your gear.
-TINMIAQ: It’s warm inside. -MARY HAILSTONE: So fun!
TINMIAQ: Wow!
(indistinct conversations)
CAROL: Pretty happy for my first teepee.
Gonna be able to go anywhere I want now
and have a good, nice place to sleep.
Won’t have to pitch a loud, plastic tent.
AGNES: So awesome to see the difference
from Carolyn growing up here
to becoming a young woman,
moving on to her own teepee now,
and that’s just like letting her go.
She’s just pretty much jack of all trades.
She can do pretty much everything I can do
and probably better.
So, um,
I’m sure she’ll do
a good job, whatever she does.
CHIP: So happy birthday.
Twenty years old. That’s a good one. Yep.
-CAROL: Thank you, Mom. -TINMIAQ: Birthday Carol-O.
CAROL: I was 11 days old when I first came out here.
I lived out here since my whole life.
I’m here now.
Um, I enjoy it out here. I love to follow my parents.
It’s a lot better than staying home.
I like to be out here helping them,
seeing what they do.
It’s much better than being in the village,
I’d say.
ALL (singing): ♪ Happy birthday to you ♪
♪ Happy birthday, dear Carolyn ♪
♪ Happy birthday to you ♪
♪ And many more ♪
QUTAN HAILSTONE: ♪ On channel four ♪
CAROL: Thank you, Kiwalik!
(laughter)
Have to do that.
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