tv Cross Talk RT July 8, 2013 8:29am-9:01am EDT
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we're. 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
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a new net deliberating family he too went to a boarding school before graduating as a vet. back home in the tundra he found 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 as day the main annual festival. meanwhile other parents also pick up their kids for the annual school holidays.
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hello hello there we want to take. the holidays ok but please be back here on the seventh yet because i'd like to talk to his father and i have says behaving badly and said he doesn't want to come back after the holidays but he has . children from the tundra has 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 a shrew grandson of a polar bear a great grandson of a walrus in russian uncle fyodor he says he was raised from the dead because when
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he was born in a rawhide tent he was clinically dead his father had given up on him but his mother and grandmother saved his life and brought him out. he ran to them off to here scape from boarding school. in second grade i ran away from the boarding school with two of my friends we ran to the tundra we spent a day and night travelling back to my keep iraq ten i was always telling them to hold on there is the gemini and the top of the roof he called his article why all children die is the dramatic story of peoples escaping from schools and heading to the tundra. we searched for them for so long we used off roaders we walked around the tundra they actually died very close to the village they were frozen. hello. these classmates
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a jealous they still don't know if their own parents will come to take them home you know as you girls always have more stuff than boys the last class before school holidays began. today we're going to draw our beloved tundra our home ok. this picture will become real as soon as. before heading toward. 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.
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the head of the family watches from the sidelines general overseeing his. young son and if you copy everything he does. is underway to restock a team of did. lead the entire. thing but life's like this the old dear 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 subjects as regular schools like math physics and chemistry there are also some special disciplines like local
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graffiti and culture so they remember the tundra and their roots. on. these goals seldom think of the tundra they're taken from their homes every year and 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 it's writer and teacher has created her own alternative
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education system for the children of the tundra. this is a part of the children's residential community part of the tell where they live 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 fun north. what is more energy come on. yeah. there's plenty of work here for everyone. though. 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 of 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
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don't have that knowledge when they leave school. in boarding schools the teachers often observe a change in children's attitudes during the seventh or eighth grades. are things separated from the family house a lot of connotations he's gradually being separated from his roots but as a country 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. you know it's violinists from the school of long lived in the town and stayed with their own families.
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that was a mistake let's do it again from the beginning of the bar but don't exemption leave it in the middle. one two three. four of them perpetual motion is not about life in the tundra but a famous musical composition by car bomb. under it just means mosquitoes. will live in town and go to different cities for vacations i don't. stan how people can live there it's very cold and you have to wake up in the morning every day to heat your home. to 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
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tundra every spring the build a new fleet of high speed sledge is women not involved. 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 reagan see the really big ones bush. yeah. here in the tundra and i lived through the most traumatic experience when her only daughter had died. the tragedy changed she stopped living
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for herself and became foster mother to twenty five orphans she took them out of the orphanages and created a small community the tree cold the land of hope. everything she knows about raising children in the tundra came to from nature. then with the with the and the first thing that i notice it was that the whole landscape was modeled on the circle what they do with that there was a look that small lake is round. the other one is round as well what big you would be this ill and children's township is a circular shape you have hit in fact that it's don't like corners where you will. in a childhood foster and it was often punished for being naughty by being made to stand on her own in a corner. she's hated the idea of corners ever since. she believes the children should study close to the pneumatic reach their parents fall
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in to avoid prolonged separation. it's a semi mobile school providing a first stage elementary education it's not just for adoptive children but for any kids whose parents bring them from nearby villages old american camps months ok. cut to be q ok children today we're going to draw fish patterns to one semi-circle and another one well connected me to 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 height tent at
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a special field teacher takes the list. to me three quarter as a student teacher that is already working. he teaches russian language and literature to yvonne and galina as dear to family. they hunt for their amex 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. now. i want my children next to me i want to feel safe how could i send my child to boarding school i want to be able to sleep at night after that.
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teaching judy's date. with the school and look after the dia. travelling community has its own small budget three hundred. time with a little help from several families many of doesn't look after them alone he's helped by teaches and going to go to. they'll soon go into the tundra to meet with . great teachers the children more than just math also demonstrate some of the practical skills that nomads need. the weather in the mountains can turn in just a few minutes. here above the arctic circle conditions can be extreme the ways of life. and even childbirth are often tense. neonatal
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specialist with the flying medical service has taken an emergency call. and treatment premature labor. the radio. condition is critical at any moment the baby weighing just five hundred grams could be. used to these extreme conditions and has even delivered a baby aboard the helicopter. she knows she has to make her way to her patients condition she's also acutely aware of the. serious risks. of these situations it doesn't matter if it's a weekend holiday we're just happy when they're back in the tundras. we worry about them and that everyone we want them to get back home safe and healthy. and let's hear you. have
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a seat. she just started her vacation. don't forget to take your stuff. do you have me left or absolutely. mother was taken to hospital in time. flies several medical missions in a row each day. for deliveries after the babies of their mothers are ready to be discharged they return to their tents the same way they left. the flying medical service.
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moves 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 store. small for straight from the. tide and afraid that 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 parts to play of the process everyone knows their role it's almost done by the time they finish. in the morning despite strong winds grandchild go in search of the runaway phone.
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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 phone is far from happy after spending the night alone he's afraid of everything as a hunter. knows that it's not. grandpa watches silently is no word of criticism when the child misses. it's almost as though the animal is deliberately. they never teach skills like this in the school classroom. patience and persistence pays the chief results.
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now 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 am sixty six degrees. sixty six degrees eleven minutes eleven minutes twenty five point five seconds twenty five point five seconds. that's a retake. he's 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 laugh he moved to the village after leaving. graduating from the farming academy but
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sometimes he has regrets. i live in a village i have an apartment 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 there i'm to the tundra. my dear i was raised up there with. different groups helping to preserve the population. for some time. and his house decides to drop him. to his friends family. each time i come back to the tundra i just have to catch one. 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. paid no attention to clocks everything is time to buy the sun. of sun rise with the crack of dawn and go back to wrist after the sun sets. one of seven gays youngest grandchildren is only nine months old. berries in sugar and boiled fish for dinner and of course the main dish for every minutes slices of frozen rule
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beat served cold. eagle is only two years old but his parents needn't worry he can feed himself perfectly well the son is fast becoming quite self-reliant and . google. did a little. bit closer to the daily. family lifestyle has barely changed in the past twenty years he has twelve grandchildren. he was a father and now he's a grandfather as well. twenty years ago this film about 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 quite big about ten tenth's and choose to tell everyone calmly that whenever
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a nomad's tense stands out it has to be clean at all times when. i was in the army or when they filmed. you know now why did i recognized uncle alex say. my grandma and my mom. his family finally my. there's always something to see in these national competitions only the cream of the creek. brings its new faces and heroes. the undisputed high point of the whole event is the day
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a sledge race. and his grandson came to cheer on the family friend of his did come. but this time sadly the only manages place. the whole family gathers for the holiday in an ordinary apartment not in a tent. this is but in. their eldest daughter. this is my. they are 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 who 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'm nervous
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there is no real routine or proper discipline at that nomadic school but here they have a daily schedule breakfast lunch dinner wake up time bedtime. but you don't groom every day when to just make your own school put all the kids in a row high tent once in a while and teach them there informally i don't want my grandchildren studying outside or 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 coexist two different points of view two opinions are like this traditional stick tugging contest. here. the next day the circle is complete. and his son leo get to the camp but push further on to the north. because. are already back at their boarding school.
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