So we can gather qivit easily,' Kapugen answered. 'And,' he added with bluntness, so the wolves will not kill the oxen.'”
-- Kapugen (Part I)

Importance: Julie has asked why Kapugen chooses to keep the musk ox herd in a corral rather than allowing them to roam free and this is his answer. When he decides to let them roam, he tells Julie their jobs will be more difficult because they will have to follow the herd in order to gather the qivit, or fur.

The families that needed four or five caribou each year to sustain their lives were leaving Kangik and moving in with relatives in bigger towns. Others were wandering in search of food as they had before white men came to Alaska.”
-- Narrator (Part I)

Importance: This is one example of the lives the people of Kangik live and of how their lives are changing. Julie is talking about the fact that...