You need a bath, you can't flush, the dishes are piling high and the water truck isn't coming by. Familiar to some in Bethel, anyway. It's pretty preposterous for people to live out here.
Most places are able to put water pipes in the ground or even have pipes.
We get water delivered by truck . . . He agrees that life here hasn't been preposterous for the longtime Native culture that has made a living subsistence hunting and fishing for centuries, but is a bit absurd when it comes to the western culture of industrial technology. All of which supplies Faubion with ample, laughable material that includes sought-after water trucks, plugged sewer tanks and rigs that rattle and shake with the ruts in the roads. And laugh at it he does. His songs, though they speak to insiders, are also a quick lesson on Bush life for those not in the Bush.