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The worst thing about being in Wrangell was that we were not with our families. It was a completely different world. You are taken from a loving family with your mother, father, brothers, and sisters, doing things you have always done, to a completely different situation. You lived in a dormitory setting with running water and ate different food that was prepared differently from the way it was at home. We had to stand in line. We had to get haircuts and keep our hair short. The haircut was a big deal. We hated getting our hair cut and I didn’t like the haircut the way it looked.

They also inspected us. You had to get up at a certain time of day and make your bed. There were all these details and orders that we had to follow and if they weren’t just right under the rules we got yelled at. We were yelled at all of the time. They would go, “You!” And it was do this, do that. Go to bed, be quiet. It was a completely different environment from Yup'ik home life. It was different and we didn’t like it. What kept us boys going was that we had each other. We could talk to one another in Yupiaq, so we had our own language. We had each other and that helped us to survive.