So just for starters, this is the second in a four-part series that we're doing over here at Outside

in. So if you're dropping into the middle of this story, might we recommend that you stop, go back, and listen to last week's episode.

Yeah, everything will make a whole lot more sense.

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This is Madam Maryne Irvie.

She's a member of the Pessimate, which is part of the Inuit nation.

And this is the story she told us. When Marianne was young, she said she lived with her grandparents and her brother.

Every year at the end of August they would get into a big canoe and paddle up the

utard river toward Lake Plaiti P. This was more than 250 miles of paddling

against the current on a big wild Canadian river.

She says the trip included 24 sets of rapids and waterfalls.

That means they had to pull the canoes over to the side of the river, get out, unpack all of their

supplies that's tense cooking equipment, rifles, fishing gear, warm clothes, and carry

them by hand up river. Families headed inland for the

winter would carry something like 900 pounds of gear. Every year they did that

24 times as they made their trip upriver.

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is who like a year.

Each of these portages were done on trails that had been established over millennia of living on the land,

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