For drinking water, they collect rain water into tanks. Nothing is easy. I was impressed by the over-all condition of their school facility. The staff there takes pride in the school and works hard to maintain it. The school has its own electrical generation, water and sewer system.
Water is collected from the roof and pumped into two large storage tanks.
As a result, if the summer and fall rains are not heavy enough, snow and ice must be brought into the school each night to melt so that water is available to prepare the next day's breakfast and lunch meals. During our stay, I had an opportunity to speak with Sharon Atti about the various subsistence foods the family uses throughout the year. We discussed the process of grading and drying herring with long grass, uses of seal oil and other subsistence techniques. Thursday evening her son shot a goose, and she was preparing it during one of our conversations. My visit was very interesting and enjoyable.