tv Documentary RT July 8, 2013 6:29am-7:01am EDT
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a child born in the tundra is always nomadic by nature as an early age she knows that life is perpetual motion. for nine months every year and its children are taken from their homes in the tundra to special boarding schools and each time all they want is to go home again as soon as they can and. some can't wait for the holidays and head for the tundra. that at the represents the third generation of a new nets deliberating family he too went to a boarding school before graduating as a vet. back home in the tundra he found
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a wife and now has three children. he's taking his eldest son daniel and his nephew from the boarding school to visit their grandfather for a short summer break before reindeer herd as day the main annual festival. meanwhile other parents also pick up their kids for the annual school holidays. hello hello there we want to take her back for the holidays ok but please be back
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here on the seventh yet because i'd like to talk to his father now has is behaving badly and says he doesn't want to come back after the holidays but he has two. children from the tundra have always gone to boarding school every autumn. they know that they won't see their parents again for some time. the red north newspaper's editor in chief says he's also a child of the tundra that's how he translates his knee and its name. was chieftain of the seashell tribe risen from the dead son of the shrew ground son of a polar bear a great grandson of a walrus in russian uncle fyodor he says he was raised from the dead because when he was born in a rawhides tent he was clinically dead his father had given up on him but his
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mother and grandmother saved his life and brought him. here. to them to he escaped from boarding school. in second grade i ran away from the boarding school with two my friends we ran to the tundra we spent a day and night travelling back to my keep iraq hide tent i was always telling them to hold on there's a chimney on the top of the roof. his article why all children die is the dramatic story of pupils escaping from schools and heading to the tundra. we searched for them for so long we used off roaders we walked around the whole tundra they actually died very close to the village they were frozen. hello. these classmates a jealous they still don't know if their own parents will come to take them home girls always have more stuff than boys the last class before school holidays begin
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. the day we're going to draw our beloved tundra our home ok. this picture will become real as. before heading toward day they have to gather the hood chaotically scattered around the tundra. it seems an impossible task but little by little the children healthy adults to round up the animals. ahead of the family watches from the sidelines general overseeing his.
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young son and if you copy everything he does. is underway to restock a team of dead which will later lead the entire. life like this the old deer have to move on and younger ones take their place if he has a camp temperament then he's good for women to race with if he's fast we can years them. at the boarding school the children are given a basic high school education studying. the same subject as regular schools like less physics and chemistry there are also some special disciplines like local graffiti and culture so they remember the tundra and their roots.
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down in. these goals seldom think of the tundra they're taken from their homes every year and the becoming attached to the towns and villages where life is much more comfortable. so there's that there is no t.v. set in around ten i don't know i get bored there and you have to work all day long take care of the year and prepare. what did not go. well you get out of the way to stop spinning around get out of here. why can't you find something to do. well known you know its writer and teacher has created her own alternative education system for the children of the tundra. this is a part of the children's residential community part of the town where they live
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study and play. their ambition was only realized after a lifetime of personal struggle for fifteen years she lived in a medical life taking care of dia she believes that a good education should be based on the essential skills needed to survive in the arctic north. but is more energy come on. yeah. there's plenty of work here for everyone. well most of our constitution clearly says that indigenous children must have a free education but it doesn't say free life care what the school gives them a whole team security guards maids to wash and clean the dishes everything's done for them so they face life with no idea about how to do ordinary things. they don't have that knowledge when they leave school. in boarding schools the
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teachers often observe a change in children's attitudes during the seventh or eighth grades. are things separated from the family has a lot of connotations he's gradually being separated from his roots but as a crime they're a lost generation and when he graduates from schools will have to decide between going on to higher education or back to the tundra which will he choose he's already been separated from his home but he hasn't been able to establish roots here either. violinists from the art school have long lived in the town and stayed with their own families. that was a mistake let's do it again from the beginning of the bar but don't leave it in the middle. one two three. four of them potential
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motion is not about life in the tundra but a famous musical composition by car bomb. hundred just means mosquitoes will live in town and go to different cities for vacations i don't understand how people can live there it's very cold and didn't take you have to wake up in the morning every day to home. have to go to the tundra to ski there's plenty of snow in the town for most of the year. isn't impressed by the city landscape his family only feel at home here in the tundra every spring the. fleet of high speed sledge is women are not
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involved in this lifestyle has remained unchanged for a hundred years. today still use the same technology but now they're a little smaller than they used to be i sometimes go by the old cemetery regen see the really big ones. yeah. here in the tundra and unethically lived through the most traumatic experience when her only daughter had died. the tragedy changed she stopped living for herself and became foster mother to twenty five orphans she took them out of
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the orphanages and created a small community that she called the land of hope. everything she knows about raising children in the tundra came to from nature. then with them there with you and the first thing that i notice it was that the whole landscape was modeled to the circle what they do with that there was a look that small lake is round. the other one is round as well what you would be this ill and children's township is a circular shape you have hit in fact net it's still like corners. in a childhood foster it was often punished for being naughty by being made to stand on her own in a corner. she's hated the idea of calling has ever since. she believes that children should study close to the pneumatic reach their parents fall in to avoid prolonged separation.
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it's a semi mobile school providing a first stage elementary education it's not just for adult children but for any kids whose parents bring them from nearby villages old by magic encampments. cut to begin ok children today we're going to draw fish. at first one semi-circle and another one well connected make a tail and a hand. and a thin. parents are able to take their children home from school any time they choose. life shows that if you simply want to teach children to read and write and you don't have to pull them away from this ledges that can be too big a sacrifice. and i mean all indigenous people not just the net's. children continue their studies in a row heights tent at a special field teacher takes the lessons. dimitri course but as a student teacher but is already working. he teaches russian language and
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literature to yvonne and galina as dear family. they hunt for their adventure the rabbit hides behind the tree and next to the tree was a boy and the hunters ask if you had seen rabbit with a long ears ears right. you were sure. i want my children next to me i want to feel safe how could i said my child to boarding school i want to be able to sleep at night after that.
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you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear sees some other part of it and realize that everything is ok. i'm charging welcome to the big picture. what defines a country's success. faceless figures of economic growth. or a factual standard of living.
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with the flying medical service has taken an emergency call. treatment. the radio. condition is critical. to the baby just five hundred grams could be. used to these extreme conditions and has even delivered a baby. she's also acutely aware of the. serious risks. it doesn't matter. we're just happy when they're back in the future. we worry about them and that everyone we want them to get back home safe and healthy. let's hear a name guy lena. you have
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a seat. she just started her vacation. don't forget to take your stuff. to you how he left her absolutely. everything turned out well the expectant mother was taken to hospital in time this is a crow flies several medical missions in a row each day it carries pregnant women to hospital for routine checks and for deliveries after the babies are born of the mothers are ready to be discharged they return to their tents the same way they left courtesy of the flying medical service you.
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moved his team from one nomadic camp to another. they have to cover one hundred fifty kilometers if they're to reach the celebrations in time. but there's a surprise in still. a small four straight from the hood. tied and afraid it fell behind it was lost. the whole herd can't stop for the sake of one baby. it's getting late and they still have to pitch their tent men women and children all have their pasta play of the process everyone knows their role it's almost done by the time they finish.
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in the morning despite strong winds grandchild go in search of the runaway phone. drives off the main pos to look for fresh tracks but searching this way could take a very long time and so he decides to change tactics. finally they find the runaway the timid is far from happy after spending the night alone he's afraid of everything as a hunter. knows that it's not. his son. no word of criticism when the child misses. it's almost as though the animal is deliberately. skills like this clustering. patience and persistence he's the chief results.
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the young will have to be tamed. when it's hungry i feed the deer by hand after a couple of weeks. and ask. here are the cards. i'm sixty six degrees. sixty six degrees eleven minutes eleven minutes twenty five point five seconds twenty five point five seconds. veterinary technician. is also from the tundra. with their deer. i see em i say i'm in the way we'll use them as our guide until we get to live he moved to the village after leaving. graduating from the
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farming academy but sometimes he has regrets. i live in a village i have an apartment but from time to time i wake up at the weekend don't feel like staying inside if i had my own course i could do things i'm to the tundra of freedom my dear i was raised out there very. different groups of helping to preserve the population. for some time. and his house decides to draw. it to his friends family. each time i come back to the tundra i just have to catch. you have to do it.
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i don't mind. i'm going to catch it. he's a real catch. family now has just a short distance to go before they reach their destination. played no attention to clocks everything is timed by the sun. sunrise with the crack of dawn and go back to rest after the sun sets. one of. only nine months old. boiled fish for dinner and of course the. slices of. beat served cold.
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but his parents needn't worry he could feed himself perfectly well. google. changed in the past twenty years he has twelve grandchildren. and. there was well. twenty years ago this film about such a case that a touch of the rain. was shot in nineteen ninety three. who really i just saw my mom. was always trying to sort out the mess our group was
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quite big about ten tenth's and she used to tell everyone calmly that whenever a nomad's ten stands out it has to be clean at all times. if i was in the army or when they filmed. i recognised uncle alex say. my grandma and my mom. said his family finally made it to the reindeer festival in time. to. cut it out. there's always something to see in these national competitions only the cream of the creek can we. bring new faces and hear us. the undisputed high point of the whole event
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is the did race. and his grandson came to cheer on their family friend and his did come up. but this time sadly the. place. the whole family gathers for the holiday in an ordinary apartment not in a tent. this is right in. their eldest daughter. there's your sort of dirt oh. no this is my me. they're my treasure the main one over the table they discussed the latest hot topic once again do they have to separate the kids from the family or does no medicaid education have a future after the holiday they'll have to send the children back to the boarding school my child is going into first grade very soon and that's why i am nervous
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there is no real routine or proper discipline at that nomadic school but here they have a daily schedule that practice lunch dinner wake up time bedtime. but you don't roam every day when i just make your own school put the kids in a row high ten points in a while and teach them there informally i don't want my grandchildren study an outsider in a cold tent i wouldn't be able to send my child anywhere at the moment i mean if i lived in the tundra. this is how they co-exist to different points of view to opinions rather like this traditional stick tugging contest. the next day the circle is complete. and is suddenly of get to the camp but push further on to the. no a load because daniela. are already back at their boarding school.
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