without the women preparing the boat. it takes everybody. >> wouldn't it be easier to just buy a boat? >> the way they're doing it is the way the inupiaq people have done it for thousands of years, and they want to adhere to their traditions as much as possible. >> you're a native alaskan, correct? >> yes, sir. i grew up in the interior of alaska. so i grew up in the alaskan culture. winipaqs are on the coast. they're the eskimos. we're the indians. the athabascan. i'm half athabascan. >> oh. so even though you're from a different culture, you're from the interior. they've accepted you up here and take you whaling? >> yes. the way we live is not that much different from the way they live here. togetherness. we live as a community, and we want to adhere to the old ways. >> that's a big thing about this community, i'm learning is that certainly you see people with cars and on snow machines and cell phones and ipads. but clearly there's an effort to keep a foot in the past with traditions.