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They’re checking honey bucket bins — large steel containers where residents dump their waste at neighborhood collection points.

But for her and many other tribal members, it was saying goodbye to the honey bucket that had the biggest impact: “I’m really happy I got that throne.”

It took no time at all for Mary Frederick to get used to indoor plumbing when she got it nearly two decades ago — and she hated it when the stilts supporting her elevated home collapsed and forced her to revert back to the honey bucket system for a while.

Instead of using a bathroom, people retire to a room in a house, pull a curtain and use a honey bucket — typically a 5-gallon bucket with a toilet seat on top and a plastic bag inside.

“Not even half a year, and people don’t want to go back to the honey bucket,” said Carl Ekamrak, the elder-in-charge of the Akiachak Moravian Church, with a chuckle.