Native villagers are a remarkable people, resilient and proven to be against all odds, survivors. Where everyday is a challenge to get through it, they somehow always make it. There are not enough words to describe fully the mental strength it takes to make ends meet where anyone else would have given up. I recall my dad who would walk into a raging snow storm, dragging a small sled with his kayak on top of it, to get out on the ice to hunt seals so we can eat. "Always point your kayak's bow toward land before you go to sleep so if it is pointed in another direction when you wake up, you know you're adrift," he would tell us boys. He learned that from his father and his father's father before him. They are all extraordinary people with many an unsung hero among them.