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get to see the. absent stuff. and only. then says to the house. and better. i don't need to tell people here in alaska what's happened. over the past few years i've been trying to make the rest of the country more aware. of a changing climate where you're already living and. following permafrost that threatens homes and infrastructure faster glacier melt rising seas melting sea ice that contributes to some of the fastest coastal erosion in the world and i've
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talked to folks whose villages are literally in danger of slipping away. and for many of those alaskans it's no longer a question of if they're going to relocate but when. and my grandfather. used to say is new or become one big. salary in ny and. the river around us and when not high wind comes in. it's like this one big island surrounded by the lodger. feel like it's getting danger danger every time it gets close. because who knows this one is one big village it's can come out snap.
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it's on everybody's mind. and everybody has 3 days we have to relocate and i got here 10 years ago the people were saying. who moved within 4 years. and that was and this is a statement that i have come to know. you know the shore legros is going to tell us 3 years to. think. and not to bug out to look at hardly needs to take a leak in the. remember that movie com crews and they're renovating a house the money they would ask the. contractor is going to take 2 weeks and so it always means we're that is because of the state words hours 2 weeks carrots 4 years. ringback
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i would like will move across the river are because it's higher ground i think people who are thinking about stay here forget that it floods here in the. people who need to be prepared and they were steered by some car flow. not a safe place. 2 2 a low one in which both patrols i am 1000 years old and i am from a small village called new talk that i go to
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a school that has 137 student i'm writing up a lot of bills trying to move because of climate change the talk is small place toto's opposed 350 people and we are trying to move to a place called most of the troubled 9 miles of newtown. i have been in need talk to strictly all my life and need. it has always been the same every year we lose a number of feet of landis' sure what is not the same it shares the extent of the euros and because the weather isn't the same each year some time it curb ritual for us but most of time it does. rid into doesn't do last 150 feet of land from water washing line and the nurse on to the water's about 100 yards we are going to have a disaster if we don't move. we need to act as soon as possible before the water
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because stores or it will lead us like cookie monster eating cookies. me and. all the lands us paul down and. cannot pick up. i strongly believe we can do this but we will need to help this place a very important post because how much hunting we do how much we move around a whole lot but the hardest thing we have to 1st is having no running water or us or surely we hunted buckets was which is a 5 gallon bucket for human waste literally dump it down into the water when it is 4. according to the government it's about $230000000.00 climate change that like playing chess in a test checkmate us. please we need to make
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a move because we have the possible to we might lose this battle. we'll just want to sit at a table no just like everyone else and just have a cup of tea. laughing no it will start caused. life is too short to see a swim meet to the nearest village to board 40 miles and the water is too cold. you know their early contacts with the west stairs were mainly for trade with that
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trade of course and government and so with the government came either a post office or school so wherever they placed those structures where these communities were told that you have to now live so regardless if your main camp which is probably your richard camp is the most prominent structure you have you can't go back there after you have to relocate your family here. they were not a one location people they were migratory and. in their way they were able to keep them there was 2 and 6 their children off to boarding school they didn't live near the school so the challenge began. in that initial contact. i think were part of a 1st for murmur from across. the world were. you
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know when you go over the layers of. what started cox problem there was a bar. the 1950s i was bringing in the school so i used to carry on. parker river narrower and the parts. of. the corner are floor clear. on the wrong side of a river. on this. road. the school or bureau of indian affairs school. here started. hard to understand what psychological impacts where and they
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said you no longer can to get through that and if you don't come here or taking your children so i would think that. and i know they talk about generational trauma and when you have been doing this for 15000 years and then somebody puts a stop on it and the consequences are what we have to. dispose is. it's not a money spinner but it is expensive. and it's dangerous.
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pain has changed american lives but pharmaceutical companies have a miraculous solution. based drugs the people who are chronic pain and believe that their opioid prescription is working for them and the remedy be said to. price that they pay closer dependency and addiction to opiates to long term use that really isn't scientifically justified and i'll study actually suggested that the long term effects might not just be absence of benefit but actually that they might be causing long term. her.
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that her frost is down now what is happening into the permafrost now during it sounds you know they did it because it's melting it causes the rouge so how many people have gone and walked along the edge of the river. lots of people you wish mobile walk to see happy because that's where you guys don't your honey but it's a you know but if you do walk along there by what's happening to all of the shoreline it's going to be disappearing and you my class last semester in the fall we went out there and we measured how much the religion was how much you think we lost last year he. we lost about 35 feet i was close you were close 35 feet of ground in just about 3 months while we were
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measuring that it is fast and that means the river is 35 feet closer to the town and then left and it was the year before so you guys think that the river's going yes. it's one thing to say the river is going to move you but this prompted a whole whole bunch of things this village is completely divided i mean there's just no way around you know to travel councils families don't talk to each other just all kinds of issues that have popped up. prompted by this river here moving in . routing their communities.
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these no groups are from the outside it's far from the community they are not urgently from newtok said to troubled ministers actually 1st cousins tom and 1st because it's a tradition versus you know the new prostitution or majority way of thinking so you have that tremendous divide different philosophies together and stanley represents one side and tom represents you know. my name is strongly tom i'm the tribal minister for a new trial for this and comes recently i was selected to be
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a. ward in your will it's council it's in new into 88 there was a election dispute. in october 12th. the new cars traditional council. somebody who works there. said we've never had to. hide a while. and it's an accident you were being accused of not having it us 8 to 9 years of election when we moved in you had the next from all these years i know it was coming up. and some of the smarter words began following the money and realizing some of the money's not accounted for while they actually suspended the elections. well once they suspended the elections there was a feeling that the community was being left out of the process yeah they were scheduled to leave in 2012. but through the division and the infighting and some of
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the you know bureaucratic issues the stalled as it stands now the federal government cannot. contract with either group so what they did was they basically took the contract out of the. he ate. it's a shack when it comes down to some 3rd world sack it's basically. a last resort for people who want to live in really tough. going from. has created a lot of problems health what is a no we've been to the clinic several times in our family structure really small to
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see this interior and everything else just kind of was rampant through the villages at certain times bernard want to. call it. talks been moving for the last 10 years it's a stalled move. some frustration levels fairly high. sometimes you wonder if they're doing this on purpose. i mean really when you come down to it this could be a foreign totally foreign country ignored by any infrastructure all live in the united states never just. and this is all there's no running water whatsoever so. it's a chronic. bush
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is really not for everybody. because a lot of teachers come on 12 years and they leave they don't never study. i guess is just a culture shock to. we came in 2000 some 2008. year career since. those move in the village then. everybody roots mill you couldn't much see the water from my house to then. could look out like we look out now you could see the water. now. it's close we can see the ways bussin over land when it when it gets rough. before the ice up. we can see the land working our way.
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back home they have these here we have hurricanes they were already and helped people move in you do whatever you got to do is just saying like i just taken forever i mean you almost begin to go to school you know you're ready now. i guess that's just what's. tears me up and said. thank you you know come on man these people these people are just like us there's no difference and these people and the people all for you. we all. human is it all it's just a little village 3300 people there's nobody got enough so i don't think it's no big deal is a big deal some big deal is their lives. led
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. there are still look at don't ask us for another 3rd world country. even though it's united states i see a part of america. it might be americans or the gays or 3rd world countries and their sphincter need to curious. kind of new type is thinking. the whole time you could really see it. so how is might be to late. half the time she's been moved to the new set. by now part of the power struggle and money greed to too much money are too. hard tyrone and putting their parker.
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my. not be to the top and. yeah yeah. but i. like people. who look if somebody can get out to church or to a degree and like to banksy i have some i come in with 2 or 3 bags this is for me this is for my sister this is for my brother do you know what he said does these at the gym doing open gym as well as he wants candy to go under the tree and i don't. floor.
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so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race in the. spear in dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist. that strategy will be successful it's very critical. to sit down and talk. americans. by and. this was a fundamental part of how our political leadership and our country at large understood the bargain you get a hoe and then you know rebel right that's the things you don't revolt if you have a stake in the system. and be really interesting back and think about
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the longer deeper history housings man in the united states not just that question of the american dream but the bigger question of who the dream is for. chose seemed wrong. when old rules just don't call. any. yet to shape out just to become educated and in gains from an equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.
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