they sing i talk to my daughters a lot and i have 16 grandkids. when i m around them, i try to share what i ve learned, my life stories and how we were brought up. then we have.how we live as inupiaq people. if you want to live a good life, grasp some of that. anything domestic i never really learned as a kid. i m taking into account to learn it now, just because here you kind of need to know all the skills to survive and i want to be able to pass down those domestic skills to my kids. you do it from this way or like. 0k.
you d need to come in the summer when i m doing strips because it s like a four day process. it is like extreme free range. 0ur food comes from out there. it s roaming all those thousands and thousands of untouched acres of, you know, tundra and mountains and, you know, no pollution. i believe that eskimos or inupiaq people need to eat the food that their ancestors ate. chuckles. get out of the kitchen while i m cooking! we don t have anything that connects us to a road system so the only way that things can get groceries and every item that you can physically see got here was by air. that inflates the cost of your item because you re having to pay for the freight to get here. it s crazy how expensive things are. milk is, like, $11 a gallon.
it s devastating as a community. my ancestors, they ve been living off this - land for a long time. they ve passed down their| knowledge about the land. the inupiaq, we re connected as a community, so i think. if we really stick together in that, we ll be able - to adapt to the changes. i think the rest of the world need to learn from indigenous people, because they learn throughout their lifespan to know how to survive. people have hearts. doesn t matter if you are a billionaire, don t matter if you live in a beautiful home. the magic is we re connected to the land, so there s time to rejuvenate hearts.
sure that they re eating well. they sing. i talk to my daughters a lot and i have 16 grandkids. when i m around them, i try to share what i ve learned, my life stories and how we were brought up. then we have.how we live as inupiaq people. if you want to live a good life, grasp some of that. anything domestic i never really learned as a kid. i m taking into account to learn it now, just because here you kind of need to know all the skills to survive and i want to be able to pass down those domestic skills to my kids. you do it from this way or like. 0k. ..when you hold the fur? so make sure this fur is under.
the only way that we go to the village is either by one of the commuter planes. summertime, we go by boat. wintertime, we go by snow machine. very few people are dog team. i originated to kotzebue about 35 years ago, raised four sons and two daughters. i have 14 grandchildren and two great grandchildren. my inupiaq name is pequq. we like to be called inupiaq, not eskimo. inupiaq means real people. eskimo, that s a non native s definition of us. we as inupiaq people, we know our land. it s like our heartbeat. we know how to survive, how the moon controls the high waters and low waters. we are oui’ own almanac. but then climate change came along and it changed everything.