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00:00 [ Music ]
00:10 >> Please stop and stand for the pledge.
00:13 [ Speaking in Native Language ]
00:21 >> We're trying to follow our ancestors' footsteps.
00:26 It's in our hearts to provide from the sea, the land, and the air.
00:31 [ Speaking in Native Language ]
00:40 >> Subsistence has been a way of life for thousands of years.
00:45 If you don't do subsistence activities, you die.
00:49 [ Speaking in Native Language ]
00:51 >> Sometimes going out hunting means that some people don't come back.
00:55 [ Speaking in Native Language ]
00:59 >> The woman prophesied that Chris would be known as the greatest hunter in the world.
01:05 >> The moment Chris harvested his forehead, well, he became a man.
01:10 >> On Facebook, my son received hundreds and hundreds of hate messages and death threats.
01:20 >> A lot of crazy stuff I don't even want to talk about.
01:25 [ Speaking in Native Language ]
01:31 >> To those people that say that climate change is not happening, you've got to live here to see it.
01:37 >> It's becoming harder and harder to find the kind of food we need.
01:43 >> I want to be like my brother. I'm trying to follow his footsteps and keep our culture alive.
01:50 >> I'm still in the closet. I don't really tell anybody about who I am, what I am.
01:59 [ Speaking in Native Language ]
02:06 >> Spiritually, inside of us, something is missing.
02:12 [ Music ]
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