Yukon Kings
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[Go Project Films]
[wind sounds]
[A FILM BY EMMANUEL VAUGHAN-LEE]
[wind sounds]
[engine sounds]
[Yukon River, Alaska]
[engine sounds]
[engine sounds continue]
[I'm hungry. Where's the fish?]
[The Yup'ik peoples have lived
off King Salmon for centuries.]
[Since 1998 the King Salmon
have been disappearing.]
[♪ music ♪]
[male speaker]
I've been fishing all my life.
In fact I used to fish
with my Dad.
[scraping sounds]
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I don't know.
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We have nine kids,
thirty-three grandchildren.
We've been blessed
by our children.
They help us out.
Warm gear,
life jackets, don't forget.
[footsteps sounds]
Every one of my grandkids,
since they were small,
they've been with me
in the camp.
Don't forget your rubber gloves.
But they all work,
even the littlest ones.
[rustling sounds]
[boat horn sounds]
[♪ music ♪]
[water and engine sounds]
When I was young,
average fish was
like thirty pounds.
[♪ music ♪]
But now you're lucky
if you get
eighteen pounder,
fifteen pound king.
Nobody can explain that.
But they can guess.
They can talk.
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[fire crackling sounds]
Right now for subsistence,
average person can take
maybe ten kings
and they're satisfied.
[fire crackling sounds]
Salmon is a way of our life.
I hope it doesn't go away.
[♪ music ♪]
I remember
when I was growing up,
I used to hear—
elders will talk.
They said,
"People will change,
the weather will change."
It's true, I see it now.
There's no stopping it.
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[seagull sounds]
It's hard.
For our younger people,
it's very hard.
They gotta have that money
to pay for the gas.
Gotta have gas to go out
and try to get your subsistence.
If there's no more salmon,
there will be no more work,
I know.
[♪ music ♪]
[seagull sounds]
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[seagull sounds continue]
[♪ music ♪]
[water sounds]
Yeah, I take
my grandchildren out fishing.
I teach them how
to check net and how to set net
and how to use the current.
[♪ music ♪]
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I feel good
when I teach them something
they can remember.
[♪ music ♪]
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Because we're not going
to be around forever.
We'll be gone.
[rustling and rattling sounds]
This is how they used,
long time ago,
no cooking pot, they cooked it
out on open fire.
It sure beats cup of noodles.
So far they're okay,
the grandchildren.
[♪ music ♪]
But we're not there
all the time to watch them.
[♪ music ♪]
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I know my grandchildren
will teach their kids
how to fish.
They will.
I know they will.
[♪ music ♪]
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[Yukon Kings]
[Kuigpiim Taryaquii]
[♪ music ♪]
[directed
by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee]
[produced
by Dorothée Royal-Hedinger]
[Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee]
[edited by Adam Loften]
[director of photography]
[Andrew David Watson]
[music by H. Scott Salinas]
[guitars: H. Scott Salinas]
[Matthew Atticus Berger]
[cello: Artyom Manukyan]
[sound design/mix
by D. Chris Smith]
[assistant camera: Elias Koch]
[color grading: Leo Hallal]
[special thanks:
The Waska Family]
[Kwik'pak Fisheries]
[©2012 GoProjectFilms.com]