tv Documentary RT July 14, 2013 8:29am-9:01am EDT
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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 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.
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hello hello there we want to take her back for 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 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 went to see their parents again for some time. the red north newspapers editor in chief says he's also a child of the tundra that's how he translates his knee and its name. was william and you must be chased into the sea shell tribe risen from the dead son of a shrew ground son of a polar bear a great grandson of a walrus in russian on. he says he was raised from the dead because when he was
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born in a tent he was clinically dead his father had given up on him but his mother and grandmother. and. second grade i ran away from the two my friends we ran to the tundra we spent a day in ny traveling back to my keep iraq hide tent i was always telling them to hold on there is the gemini and the top of the roof. is the dramatic story of people being from schools and heading to the tundra. we search for them for so long. 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 girls always have more stuff than boys the last class before school holidays begin . to 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 help the 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 dead which will later lead the entire. life's 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 subjects as regular schools like mass 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 yeah 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 out there you have to work all day long take care of the year and prepare. what did not go well what will 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
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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 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. 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
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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 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
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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 perpetual motion is not about life in the tundra but a famous musical composition by car bomb. on the tundra 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 detail 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
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tundra every spring the. fleet of high speed sledge is women are 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 record see the really big ones. yeah. here in the tundra and uneducated 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 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 on the circle 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 it's a circular shape you have hit in fact that it's don't like corners. in her 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 cohen has ever since. she believes that 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 adult children but for any kids whose parents bring them from nearby villages old magic encampments. when cut to begin ok children today we're going to draw a fish. one semi-circle and another one well connected make a tail and a half. 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
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a special field teacher takes the list. dimitri quarterman as a student teacher but is already working. he teaches russian language and literature to yvonne and galina as dear 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 the same 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 a boarding school i want to be able to sleep at night after that.
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also acutely aware of the. serious risk. it doesn't matter. we're just happy when they're back and. we worry about them and that everyone we want them to get back home safe and healthy. what's your name and i lena. think you have 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 aircraft flies several medical missions in a road each day it carries pregnant women to hospital for routine checks and for
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deliveries after the babies are born of the mothers are ready to be discharged they returned to their tents the same way they left courtesy of the flying medical service you. 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. small for straight from the hood. tide i'm afraid it fell behind it was lost.
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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. 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 phone is far from happy after spending the night alone he's afraid of everything as a hunter. knows that it's. grandpa watches
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silently no word of criticism when the child misses. it's almost as though the animal is deliberately. skills like this in the school classroom. patience and persistence. achieve results. 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
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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 the way we'll use them as our guide until we get to land he moved to the village after leaving. graduating from the 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 courtyard i could do things i'm to the tundra to freedom my dear i was raised up there very. different groups of helping to preserve the population. for
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paid 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. beet served cold. but his parents needn't worry he could feel perfectly well. changed in the past twenty years he has twelve grandchildren.
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and. 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 but whenever a nomad's tense stands out it has to be cleaned at all times. by all in the army and when they filmed. well why didn't i recognized uncle alex say. my grandma and my mom.
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said his family finally made it to their brain to festival in time. to. cut it out. there's always something to see in these national competitions only the cream of the creek can. bring new faces and heroes. the undisputed high point of the whole event is a race. and his grandson came to cheer on the 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 not in. the eldest daughter.
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now 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'm nervous there is no real routine or proper discipline at that no magic school but here they have a daily schedule that practice lunch dinner wake up time bedtime. but you don't room every day when i just make your own school put the kids in a roll high tent once 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 tender. this is how they coexist two
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different points of view to opinions rather like this traditional stick tugging contest. the next day the circle is complete. and his son leo get to the camp but push further on to the. no a load because daniela. are already back at their boarding school. it's. blind to what is happening in their country. the american dream is disappearing.
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