country or co go to a country that was more in line with their thinking what about the country and where they were citizens so the question is what country what a clash in charge and country should just be the billionaires you don't have to toss in the running as it were over the major interest or they were countries working people see just as then they're somehow traitors when in fact you know there's a good as new knowledge of nash and national nuclear secrets of the gulf then they're treated right unfortunately we are out of time certainly could talk about this for a lot longer think muttley president of less government and brian becker the national coordinator for the answer coalition and that's going to do it for now for more on the stories we covered go to our team dot com slash usa or youtube dot com flash america i'm christine for we will be back in a half hour. wealthy british style.

market finance come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into the report. once it was a part of russian territory there are still reminders to this day children wearing russian national costumes people having russian names and many orthodox churches are standing here but more than one hundred years ago it became the u.s. territory though some americans still don't know about. this over the last i have no idea about that stuff like nothing i don't know anything about that alaska is cold. it was cold a box of ice

a polar bear garden and one russia but in the language of the indigenous peoples the word alaska means the great land. of. sven how concerned is steering his boat out of the narrow bay of kodiak island his ancestors have lived here since time immemorial. over the thousands of years they to solve this seascape each time they put out to sea to hunt. but they use their canoes with a couple of paddles instead of comfortable motor boats with powerful engines in the past yes it was is very very to. as an individual you need to group in order to. actually capture for example you look at the sea lions over here in order for you to hunt one of those you need several people. on

a summer day and seventeen forty one scores of the natives of the land set out on a hunting expedition in canaries they spotted on ships on the horizon. those big sail boats belongs to an expedition led by a russian explorers very unsure if that was how kodiak island made its appearance on russian maps the first colonists were guided by those maps but the landed on the island more than forty years later seventy four the city of kodiak was the capital of russian america for fifteen years. could streets serve as a reminder of that time. many of them still bear the names of russian travelers and merchants. there is still the street name a shell a call who all bonded with his wife now tell us the very first

russian permanent settlement in alaska and then that there is still a cost son in law was sawn off and that can nickel. who are representing the government of russia and also the russian american company. the russian american company was founded in seventy nine. primarily with the hunting and the selling of sea otters which dwelt in large colonies on the alaskan coast. this building was used as a warehouse from here the for which to russia and china this is c.r. pill has the sickest for of any animal the most furs per square. this is the animal itself the sea otter this animal was what caused the fur gold rush to alaska i rush.

russian traveler he first came to alaska two thousand and nine he organized an expedition to retrace the steps of his fellow countrymen. the ghost who was the first ever european to reach alaska as. he mapped this unexplored land and establish contact with the average old people. local people welcome to warmly just as their ancestors welcomed this agustin two hundred fifty years ago their homes may have changed a lot but their attitude to russians remains the same. bullshit over clearly we would welcome them like arenas east of the places that it once served as bases as a ghost can expect dish and. tell them we were russians many of the local people said they had russian ancestors. when the russians came to alaska the

lies of the indigenous people changed. many of them began to work for the russian american company jobs involved hunting for sea otters fishing and taking part in the building of new settlements russian priests and monks visited alaska and baptized the locals in people with the dogs fish russian men married local girls. russian man married local women and their children were called creole. creoles who were well educated they held top posts in the russian capital bush as well as in the colonial administration in alaska i mean. surrender how concerned lives a life entirely. different from his ancestors to him putting out to sea is more like fun the more. spread is proud of his traditional bathhouse he sees it as a symbol of successive generations and imbedded russian traditions. when the

russians came. the thing that is similar are the rocks and he steaming the rushing inside of anya and that's something that we've been doing for centuries and it's a tradition where the now we have a wooden house which is a russian vanya just adapted to it i mean i grew up taking minus four baths. svendsen telling the history of his people as a mission he curious the museum which is one of the principal tourist attractions of kodiak island when few tourists visited during low season local people come here to when the russians actually took over our claimed alaska. spirit one of the friends together with his family is listening to his story although his name is of russian origin he doesn't know a single word of the language spoken on the other side of the bering strait nor

does he know much about where his last name comes from. earthling are colder is what my mom told me that morning there were russians were here we were taken after her and grandpa going there on configure honored and they couldn't say our last name for a very good russian. still don't seem you know it doesn't need to speak russian all services in the orthodox church in kodiak city are held in english. father in a can to you was born in new england a place that is far away from here he has no russian roots nevertheless he decided to serve as an orthodox priest in alaska but it was a long story. it's a story of growing up in

a christian church protestant church but always learning the seeking out for face and for experiencing the fourth and finding that the doxy is a young man and eventually answering the call and the priest claims. the church were father in the can she serves stands with the first church in the new world used to be alaska is still predominantly orthodox us state russians and and the priest said then came didn't force us to not speak our language they didn't force us to not follow our traditional ways of living we did you know stop practicing our older religious practices but pretty much everything else did the same thing language but then during the american period. when the americans came they wanted to civilize us. american archaeologist david mcmahon is exploring the remains of russian legacy on alaska. these are

the lead seals they would have been used. and poise of the russian american company right around bales of earth and this is one of the most important finds of his career some of the objects were found at the site of the first russian settlements others on the ocean floor silesia this is a. search brains just together with russian colleagues unashamed david mcmahon raise that many remains of the russian ship kodiak from the depths of the ocean the ship belonging to the russian american company sank near the shores of kodiak island in eight hundred sixty i strayed was very lucrative because the gold miners in california needed ice for their drinks so even if. they would still make a good profit the ship was leaving kodiak and it hit a rock everyone got off the ship but because of the ice on board the ship stayed

afloat for several days where for romney sank. the archaeologist dived twenty five meters deep to explore the remains of the ship the kodiak was one of a dozen ships keeping the lines of communication with russia open similar ships regularly sailed the length of the north pacific many saw the ship wreck as a symbol of the russian american company who was in dire straits. at the beginning of the eighteenth sixty's the company reached the edge of bankruptcy that caused a debate on whether alaska could be sold the vast territory was inhabited by eight hundred colonists at the very most this number was well below what russia needed to control and defended. its. the fact that even if those factors lead to a serious discussion about a potential sale they were held in an atmosphere of secrecy only a handful of officials knew about them but focused really good. america was not

particularly keen on buying the faraway territory a russian envoy to washington eduardo steckel was told to do his best to convince the u.s. government that it would gain norma's benefits by acquiring alaska. steckel had the support of u.s. state secretary william seward who was in favor of a u.s. territorial expansion. finally an eight hundred sixty seven after lengthy negotiations alaska was sold to the united states for the price of seven point two million dollars. on october the eighteenth three hundred sixty seven the russian flag was lowered in the former alaskan capital of sitka. in its stead america's colors were raised. today happy alaska day is one of the major holidays of the forty ninth state. during the bright show of the residents of citgo reenact the procedure of handing

over the flag from russians to americans. in eight hundred sixty seven at the ceremony for placing the russian colony under u.s. control was much more modest. the american government was weary of accusations that they had wasted a lot of money headlines and splashed across the newspapers scoffed at the purchase describing it as nothing more than a box of vice. rumor even had is that of the seven point two million dollars paid some two hundred thousand was given to senators in the form of kickbacks. but opinion that opinion put it on their side the liberal steps were taken to go with delano perhaps wayne some some of says. towards a hitch free ratification of the treaty. after alaska came under u.s. control the russian american company lost its influence and the russian settlers

were offered a choice either return to russia or live in the reservation like settlement of ninilchik. what became of the money earned in the alaska deal was shrouded in mystery. the official version claimed that the whole payment reached russia and was spent on the construction of railways. rumors persisted however that the ship carrying the gold received from the sale of alaska had sunk in the pacific. a. few fish. fish fish. fish to.

it. business. geary and school was born and raised in alaska like many alaskans he refers to other states and the lower forty eight gary is sure that americans have a poor impression of the forty nine most people in the lower forty eight go know that alaska is part of america some believe it's still to russia but many believe

that it's own country and they wonder what kind of money they're going to have to use when they're here and what language we speak and those kind of things i've i've actually had people compliment me on you sound just like in america. gary a school class has lived in the small settlements of on the peninsula since birth there are more than twenty school cos here his grandfather knew only a few english words gary however doesn't speak russian my grandfather passed away a couple of decades ago and my grandmother. passed away soon after that just some distance from here my father is buried and most of my relatives and one day i will be to. right after the peninsula was sold to the americans the village was built on the seashore all of the employees of the russian american company who refused to move to russia had been banished here by the u.s.

government one of the older buildings is right down below it doesn't have a window in it. and the old law dovetail design with the dovetail corner there are several other buildings that are better throughout here including sheds that were used for fishing the older ones were built as as old as the late eighteen hundreds all the residents of new chick are related to each other one way or another for this irene she died in one nine hundred eighty five one of the most successful people born in india is laurent lehman who is a distant relative of gary a school called four years ago he was the lieutenant governor of alaska because he's only passing through today and has decided to stay with his uncle and aunt their ancestors were russians and they still use russian words in their everyday lexicon. was married which were.

a few hours later he will visit his father at a nursing home in the town of sold. your interview to i told him i tell my father that everything. oh. yes. lauren lehman doesn't see the russian heritage simply as a distant episode in the history of his native state he remembers well that when he was a child far more people spoke russian than english. with my brothers of russian heritage and we often joked about it when we got within about ten miles of then they'll say we're doing what we call speaking then we start talking like my father telling some of the stories it is still a very. for the. morning of rise that sold around lunchtime he visits his father at the local nursing home he says a few phrases in russian let them wait there it's not go i. was there conscious

because. nick lehman can't remember names and faces clearly last year he had a stroke. it was the us here we believe it. was my son nick lehman's condition sometimes makes him imagine he's not it's old old news nursing home but in the old settlement of chick where everyone has a boat where christmas is celebrated in early january rather than in december and where people in nearly every home speak russian. noticed the use of so those programs are where what you know are these dogs are going to. a group of. lehman is one of the few people here who still remember the russian era of the land its former legacy is gradually being forgotten much in the same way as old people's memories fade away i'd like to teach my children about their heritage and we've

shared it. especially with our oldest child our son and i think the best way we can do it was to talk about it serves some of the stories maybe even some of the language i want them to understand the herb very rich cultural heritage if it makes me happy and. brazen here is one of the most popular teachers and still don't know high school. he used to teach english to russian children in the russian town of mogadon which today he teaches russian in alaska none of the children in his class has a slavic name and all of them are americans who've decided to learn the language that was once dominant in this part of the worlds. your wallet during briana while your. fellow. fair bit like. this thing that's. still here.

i'm not. here. we go or eat seasoned self as a representative of the new wave of russian settlers of alaska who fears he makes himself at home the russian legacy is everywhere. because today there are at least about seven hundred. names place names on the map of conspicuously russian for example read. from reboot cell dog from cell device then the presence of the churches here so you know the words. let's put it like this here in the last we'll live in the presence of the past. is another russian enclave in alaska it emerged here on hundred years after the sale of the peninsula. its four hundred inhabitants trying to stick to

a lifestyle reminiscent of siberia rather than america. for people to see in here in one thousand six to eight years and this is the first house they have built here very safe why they feel me hugh you know so young you know how do you choose an evil man for some reason trying to guess why i'm here there's no escape for you dressed to kill. is famous in nicholai of sc and she is known for causing a stir the locals are not particularly fond of her because she is the only settler who is always ready to talk to journalists. the reason is that all believers live in the settlement and they always prefer a reclusive lifestyle. the founders of nikolai have fled the soviet union to america to escape persecution on religious grounds in alaska the old believers trying to distance themselves from civilization much like they would do in russia and initially it was a private village no doubt about that but the signs have been removed and now

people can visit us where they can talk to and meet. is no longer settlements today it is even something of a tourist attraction because they run by the feel of the most lucrative business in the settlement. this is mission. big basically for. for three decades it never occurred to the old believers that someday americans might be among their neighbors they tried to escape visiting other towns but now the american houses stay near the russian ones i think we know matthew has five children he moved. seven years ago after buying one third of the local land is american dream is slowly becoming a reality the land was. pretty good price the russians should say

russians are people that are here your thoughts they have a nice set of values thank you. friendly relations with matt but as the years ago by she becomes ever more apprehensive of the prospect of nicholai of losing its status as a russian enclave and turning into just another quiet settlement in alaska. children in the settlement still where russian national dress but english is now their mother tongue. for growing up in a russian village but we go through english school that were in english and not as much russian i think or the time our church will probably go more americanised faith i believe that. the blade which america. the new wave of settlers who moved to alaska during the last decades came from siberia twentieth century russian destinations

changed in comparison with the eighteenth century the majority preferred alaska's largest city anchorage rather than kodiak island with the connivance a lot of the city's three hundred thousand strong population five thousand are migrants from russia. his front group is rehearsing in a garage situated in a. anchorages suburb. is the youngest of the band everybody calls and rio is perfect english hides his true or he was born in the siberian town of. heroes you've got children of the russians who came here and nine hundred eighty nine were in the early one nine hundred ninety s. the girls are about twenty years old now just some of this russian generation has grown up in alaska where they speak very good english and understand spoken russian it is indeed a new generation of music and when you might. one of the songs of the greenberg

group says there's a place where everybody's going to it's the place to be actually an entirely different place is meant in the song but the new russian submarines have taken the him like lines close to the heart of. the. russians don't see themselves as masters of alaska they see themselves as guests. of the travelers among them he and his friends are embarking on a second expedition to the peninsula's hinterland once again they will retrace the steps of early russian explorers. team will have to go through a strenuous course of training before the second expedition they intend to use the same gear that the early russian explorers had no motor boats only canoes both and since we are repeating the historical roots of the alaskan discoverer. then we want

to know the actual truth and that's why we didn't have a choice of transport means. vin haakanson head of the community of indigenous people living in kodiak island takes a dim view of the desire of europeans to make very lives more difficult. his ancestors used to put out to sea in converse keeper for. as motorboats. soon thinks giving up the perks of civilization is a foolish thing to do. yet despite embracing the modern era inwardly he still remains committed to the simple principles preached by his ancestors. we were here for thousands of years. but you know we didn't have this system of paper saying that we can claim this land because in our philosophy in our worldview. you can own land the land owns you you know how can you say you own that when you're only here

for a little bit and then you got it's a whole different philosophy of owning it versus living with it. marvin here broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture.