I used to meet the priest from Aniak in my days when my job took me to the Alaskan villages. He had had some interesting training experiences before they gave him his position. He had spent time with Alaskans on the coast who took him out to Little Diomede Island, which is not inhabited. They ambushed and harpooned a seal there and it fled to Big Diomede Island, one and a half miles away and in the then Soviet Union. They followed the animal and killed it and were butchering it on the shore with Father Tony rather nervously asking them if it was 'okay' to be where they were doing what they were doing. Then they saw a lot of faces popping up over the dunes (there was a military base on Big Diomede), and the Alaskans all told Father Tony it was indeed time to go home. They got back in the umiak and got out of there. I don't know if they were able to get the seal loaded or not. Anyhow, they got back to the village on the Alaska coast, but that night a huge helicopter stationed itself right between the islands and hovered there for hours, flashing its navigation lights.