tv Documentary RT January 1, 2021 9:30pm-10:01pm EST
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a lot of. things hard. what are you. a burglar but it. was. my 1st year here which was 15 years ago. i thought. you see these commercials you know about helping other countries and i'm thinking look at this place. and why isn't there commercial to help the people here like there's not running water in the houses and and there's you know the so they still have this honey look at system they have to haul their water like this is not america anymore you know not the america i grew up in this is like wow. newtok is a very rural. community with their language and their culture and their subsistence it's really strong here still and that's a good thing but worst case scenario my fear is that
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a couple of houses are lost families or are displaced and have to move to other communities or bethel with other family members and that yeah this that that new village doesn't get built quick enough for new talk to move there and then it become unity and disrepair out. odd. out there that are the truck. while. her folks who believe that sense of belonging is taken away so then you have to try to reestablish that failing that.
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you not thank you every day that i got a whole lot of money here you get those conveniences but what you lose is the access to food and the access to community and when you're part of the tribe it's very difficult to leave and not kill the sense of loss. to see this guy station or. someone going to some guy was shot here last summer killed bridge or the gas station a boy or how somebody got shot killed or just last week to reconfigure another guy to show up. there was a couple gunshots at one time. or so like in 44 and 9. comparing. notes. to city keep your kids 247. just let them out of village like they do. take some interesting.
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from my perspective it isn't sr has become a milk cow for the pressure on stevie's and sees we're in a say hey let's let's do a study. let's do this and most will fulfill our budget here in anchorage and fairbanks and somewhere else nor make a living for us at the expense of new talk people. well i'm optimistic about a future the only way to go forward to the 21st century is to have a healing process. it's going to take time and i believe in the future everything will settle down and forget about the old. b. c.
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dark and gloomy but here we are and. have. nots a summary. this girl who committed suicide was being bullied other. students and the. bullies were saying. it's going good. you're working this. we won't miss you. and you post and facebook isn't that illegal sitting there some computer. cyber bullying so i'm sure some drivel can trouble. oh oh. our faces are numbered
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my name is john and i am the new travel administrator. i am the nephew of the. i was a former administrator tom john i believe that he now calls. the ocean his own home. we now have. someone to watch over us when we're out there hunting. and providing for our family. here. carry out his mission i am here to carry on just where i am here to see that his vision. is a kind. is
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going to be knocked. down i don't want to. know what. the burden kind of at the news site the pic was basically orchestrated to. celebrate this 2017 construction season and the celebration was not only to how. congratulate the tribe and the community for perseverance through the process and getting to this point but to also help them recognize that things are happening and there is hope for their future and that they're not just. better as. this one.
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to start building. her to support losing her home to this discovery. is what people are afraid. and their family. moving pitching a tent over it like because they're afraid. that albertine she is worried. me going to cool their character right across their head. i'm scared for my cute. do you. want me. for. anything they did next week. now.
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this is. this is our notice to proceed from the united states department of the interior bureau of indian affairs. we've got 4 house bill right now that we're going to structure simultaneously we've got a pressure crew with up at the pit right now. and they're driving the trucks and they're coming down with. the road down here. to work her go ahead. and then through that the fine we're going to be working on the design for the community and streets and then next year we'll be finishing the 4 houses that are currently getting started and then building one other house and then hopefully move or at least secure funding for housing for future house to.
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come out. in good works like about couple of years when we started the plant the military helping the village to relocate. and we're happy to have. the new park at the new building sorry. and as you can see they turned you know bear country into a 2 lane down here in a base camp which will be the name was for the next several years for us as we roll in every summer you know one of the questions i get asked all the time is why are the marines moving alaskan native village how come you guys to use that what you guys do now is that if you can find a thing better to do the truth of the matter is that the marine corps has no business in relocating in alaska native village that's not what we do but what we do we do is train our brains and sailors on the other service personnel involved in expeditionary engineering project. to do something so far away from home if you
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will in the room. tundra it a difficult place to get to by boat by air every kind of way this is exactly the type of challenge that offers us a training opportunity i think it's a good thing for the region it's a good thing for. residents to really see the start of this. obviously is going to take a while it's not happening fast enough for me but you know to have all the united states government involved in this project is pretty amazing to me and. i'm glad it's here. someone said this might be 3 to 5 years. however that is. the most favorable conditions i think 5 years is
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realistic and it also allows. the community to gradually build. as the infrastructure comes food water shelter and got the 95 percent subsistence lifestyle if they didn't have access to a story. that they have cleaner water their water has been a challenge in new. oil water notice for over 10 years and so having access to clean drinking water. and shelter. i can were not built for that arctic they were not built for that and vironment. and their age. because they weren't designed for that place.
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this was. known to. some of the nation's 1st. spoke with props i want to have another even see. i don't mind paying down the. money for years if we have to with there's less water. and i'm going to move across there. soon. pioneer coverage. who can run no way from locked in cage there's a lot my nose my stuff i stink i took my steps i'm almost ready for force and pants and till it is. in part. we were told would move your house is 2016 and i was so excited i told him i
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make each day going to move warehouses next year 2016 came. and. in michigan i guarantee you they would move the house is 2007 t. . still nothing. their store and their owners and won't say let's wait until 2008. i got mark sold the 1st one. our people have been waiting for over 20 years for this opportunity. they've been waiting patiently for work is. she here. and i have to. i have to ask them please be patient. be patient. in waiting 22
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years. much another month or 2. and think about it if another country threaten to wipe out an american town we do everything in our power to protect it. climate change poses the same threat right now. and that's why i care so deeply about this if we do nothing temperatures in alaska are projected to rise between 6 and 12 degrees by the end of the century. and it's runs all of us with hardship not just. people up north. there are many other places in america that have to deal with those questions right now but there will be. what's happening here. is america's wake up call it should be the world's
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strategic political interest. but it seems to me i'm. beginning to believe that this new look will going to be a pretty chilled if there will be a choice to be about it will free speech to. us talk. of this through the coke with full attention you. point of. them. we're going. to put so that you put in the. duran dish. for. gas to jam. you'll. be asleep when the border with. us stuck.
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you just with. your pride you will know when you are going you must like usual with this. americans love buying homes. this was a fundamental part of how our political leadership and our country a large understood the bargain you get a hope and then you know rebel right as the things you don't revolt if you have a stake in the system. of the really interesting dialing back and think about the longer deeper history housings men in the united states not just that old question of the american dream but the bigger question of who the dream is and for .
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the us centers 2021 with a grim new record registering its highest ever daily death toll. endemic restrictions that take a devastating toll on the french hospitality sector a small business owner says his neighbor took her own life as many are desperate over the future of their businesses it was my neighbor who lived right in front of my house and they had a restaurant for 2 generations during the 2nd lockdown everyone had to close again but some roadside restaurants were authorized to open and she was not on the list the next day and she hanged herself. several countries consider introducing covert passports while companies develop mobile apps to enforce compliance but there are warnings of significant complications.
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