Tooksook Bay Footage

Earlier times that Kazakhstan was the place where we learned and that is like an educational area or church or a place to learn. From starting from the little boy on up, there used to be two things that are told to a person. If it's a young boy, they would tell them two things. Even things that are not good and two things that are bad. The thing is that you have to avoid and the things that you have to use as you're growing up. So when you get to them thinking

that this is what those people had told me long time ago that if I don't do this I'm better off. They used to tell us things even where older people or older adults, the things that we have to know because the learning never stops. There is things that a person can avoid if they are not the right things to do because we have already know the head of time or long before we get to them. And that's where we learn to be pupil. Well, as we're growing up, we learn all these things that we must know as we're growing up. And for the older, as we're going older, if they observe that we

are doing things that are not right, they would tell us off and make a stop doing it at that time. And the things that they have told us and instructed us to do and instruct us to do are also instructed in the churches. Same thing that we were instructed in our Eskimu way of life at those earlier times. And also there is loss that we must go by and those were the same loss that we were those were given twice in our earlier times. And I think if we start listening to what we are told or instructed to do or what we are instructed not to do, I think we're

better off and with I don't think we would make too many mistakes that we are making as of now. Go on. Flex. How do I start? What do you remember about living in the sawed house? Maybe this is an old picture of my family and this house behind them. I remember it used to be duplex. We had one big, one big porch, but there were two houses. On the other side my

uncles lived there and on the other side we lived but I can't really remember how it was, I just have a little bit of memory. Do I introduce them? Let's see. Let me get zoomed in here on it. On this left side was my mom's dad. That's my grandfather and this was my mother. And then this is my aunt Stella and then my uncle Phil, my grandmother and my grandfather,

my uncle, my dad, my aunt and my two cousins. I think I'll get a close up of it when we're done. Can you say, like, can you remember it being cold or any memories of what it was like to be inside? I think what I can remember of sawed houses. They were warm, really warm. They weren't like this house. Every time the snow starts blowing some of the snow comes into your houses nowadays. A long time ago, no matter how strong the wind is or the snow is blowing. You'd still be nice and warm in there. That's how I can remember. Do you remember

working a lot when you were a kid packing water? Yeah, we had to pack water, bring some wood in and feed our dogs. I had to do boy's work because I was the first one in the family. I had to do both. I never bring food in but I guess the other people. But I can remember the use to stay in that us. And while they're talking, you know, even though they were talking to a whole group of them, this is what my dad used to say. The person that isn't going to listen. I mean, you know, change his life or, you know, try and become

a better person. The person that isn't going to listen to them last. We'd just get up and walk out and then they'd see. See, there's the person that isn't going to change no matter how much you talk to them. So listening is really. And on girls' sight, if a person was talking to us, telling us what's wrong and what's right. Some of them would just start crying for no reason at all and then they'd say, that's the person that's not going to listen. So some of them would just talk back and after they try and tell them, did you go ahead and be like that? That's the way you want to be. So the person who was most likely to do well. Boy, they're really used to tell us, you know, I guess, if they hated us. But

like I said, that was the way they were brought up. These two talk to us like as if they were scoliness. Did you know it was for your own good? Mm-hmm. I didn't want time I asked my mom. I think I asked my mom. I asked her if my dad hated me for some reason. And then she said, no, he doesn't hate you. He just wants you to, you know, grow up the right way. And then he said, no person has to keep that the hate, which is true. Sometimes I bought my kids out there if I hate them. But no, I don't hate them. I love them now. Because I guess we have the largest family in Tukzuk. Our family

is the largest one. And these people around here say, we're lucky. I guess in those early days, they say the person that was the richest one was that one that had lots of kids. And no matter how a person, how a rich person is, if they don't have no kids there, I guess in their ways they were poor. Because when they get old, there was nobody to take care of them. So I guess we're pretty lucky, even though they're mostly girls. That's about it. What about the dogs? You said you fed the dogs. There must have been a time when the dogs

go. I guess when they get to oldies to replace. The first snow machine I saw was the then propeller kind. One guy from before we moved here. Boy, this is something was coming from I don't know. I guess everybody was just surprised. And then after he stopped the machine, there were lots of people. That was the first snow machine I ever saw. No. No. Well, that's, that's all I can say. Are we?

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. . . Yeah, but it wasn't things when I went to intake. Can you tell us what anything you think it made you think about or feel when you saw that old village? Um... Did it make you feel anything when you saw that?

Yeah. Did you sit inside? Yeah. What did it make you feel? Happy. Right. They're being there. Can you make you feel proud to be an integral? Mm-hmm. Can you say that like in a sentence for us so we can use that? Say, you know, when I went, when I was over there, it made me feel something. When I was over there, it made me feel happy. And... Happy to be on the screen. Why would... why would... can you say anything more about that? Yeah.

Okay, let's see. Just look over that way. And I'll get a little bit of film if you're looking over there. Okay, sure. Okay, that's good. You guys sit there with him and we'll get here. Get your pictures here. Yeah. Yeah. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good, good. Good. Good. Good to have a family someday. I don't know if that's some kids someday.

I appreciate them. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. You liked it? Okay. Good. Music .

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