tv Documentary RT January 3, 2021 8:30pm-9:00pm EST
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a changing climate where you're already living an. ongoing 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 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 his new top will become one big. ready in 9 of. the river as. high wind comes in.
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it's like this one big island surrounded by the larger. feel like it's getting danger danger every time it gets close. because who knows this one is one big village can come out to snap. just where on the permafrost or on the permafrost and new targets it's really heavy you know. from disciplined keeps coming off the ice the land.
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and everybody has 3 days we have to relocate and i got here 10 years ago the people were saying. move within 4 years. and that was and this is a statement i have come to know you know the shore legros is toast 3 years. i think. not to bug out to look at hardly needs roots kid. remember the movie com cruise and they're renovating a house is the money they would ask the. contractor is going to 2 weeks and so it always rises weird that it's because a mistake words hours 2 weeks. you know cared for 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 of courts they hear forget their clocks here in the fall people who are made to be repaired every student by a car full of. not a safe place. or . 2 2 hello my name is bob the charles i am 19 years old and i am from
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a small village called new dog. i go to a school that has 137 student i'm writing about a village trying to move because of climate change the talk is small place that has about 350 people and we are trying to move to a place called most of the tumbled 200 miles of a new tough. i have been in need talk basically all my life and it has always been the same move year we lose a number of feet of flanders sure what is not the same it shares the extent of the euros and because the weather isn't the same each year sometimes it curb bridge with us but most of time it turns. into doesn't do last 150 feet of land from water washing line and the nurse on to the water's about a 100 yards. we are going to have
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a disaster if we don't move. and we need to act fast soon as possible before the water just to us or it will lead us like cookie monster eating cookies. me and. all the land just falls down and. cannot pick. i strongly believe we can do this but we will need to help this place is very important to us because home 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 they really don't get down into the water when it is for. according to the government it's about $230000000.00 climate change is like
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playing chess in a test checkmate us. please we need to make a move because we have a possible 2 room i'd lose this battle. where you just want to sit at a table you know or is just like everyone else and just have a cup of tea. laughing oh it was 3rd cousins. life is too short to see a swim meet to the nearest village that's about 40 miles and the water is to comb. in the. area. you have a. early contacts with the west stairs were mainly for trade with that trade of
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course and government and so with the government came either a post office or school so wherever they placed those structures is where these communities are 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 we 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 to and set their children off to boarding school if they didn't live near the school so the challenge began in that initial contact.
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i think were a part of america 1st for america for. worse. you know when you go over the layers of. what started cox problem there was a bar. in 1000 fifty's there was bringing the school from. narrower . parts. have not one corner of our floor here off the road the wrong side of for. on this. trip road. so to. be proven you know for school.
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here. you go hard to understand what psychological impacts where and they said you're 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 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. the next letter. but you have australian. people. who are.
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oh for her. for us this down now what is happening into the permafrost to do now to get to you know they did it because it's melting it causes the religion so how many people have gone and walked along the edge of the river. lots of people you wish know full well i'll be happy because that's where you guys don't your honey but i could say yeah but if you do walk along there by what's happening to all of the shoreline it's going to be disappearing into my class last semester in the fall we went out there and we measured how much the reversion was how much you think we lost last year he. we lost about 35 feet and sometimes i wish to close you were
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close 35 feet of ground in just about 3 months while we were measuring. it is fast and that means the river is 35 feet closer to the town then we love and it was the year before so you guys think that the river's going to get. 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 are. prompted by this river here moving in and
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rooting their communities. these no groups or from the outside it's far from the community they're not originally from new to. sit through troubled ministers actually 1st cousins tom and and and they are 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 the other so my name is strongly tom i'm the
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tribal minister for a new car christened comes originally i was like to be a tribal at nish. board and you know with its own school it's a new entity there was a election dispute. in october corned it to all. the new cars traditional console. somebody who works there. said we've never had to. hide a while. and it's an accident you see you were being accused of not having a tonight year's election when we moved in the wrong you have elected all these words i knew 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 so once they suspended the elections there was a there was
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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 the you know bureaucratic issues the stalled as it stands now the federal government can not. contract with the group so what they did was they basically took the contract out of the. it's a shack when it comes down to some 3rd world shack it's basically. a last resort for people who want to live in a tough. tough. is
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created a lot of problems health what is a no we've been to the clinic several times in our family structure road strollers you know dysentery and everything else just kind of one rampant through the villages at certain times for not wanting full. talks been moving for the last 10 years it's a stalled move. the frustration levels fairly high still 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 existed in this is home there's no running water whatsoever so. it's
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a very crowded. the bush is really not for everybody. because a lot of teachers come on 12 years and they leave they don't never stay. and i guess it's just a culture shock to. we came in 2000 some 2008. year career since. moving to village then. everybody roots you could much see the water from my house to then. could look out like we look out now don't you could see the water. now. it's close. we can see the way the bus and the overland when it when it gets rough. before lies. we can see land working away.
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back home they have these here we have hurricanes. and help people move in do whatever you got to do is just saying like i just taken forever are you almost begin to go to school you know you're ready. yes that's just what's. tears me up and said. thank you no come on man these people these people are just like us there's no difference and these people and the people who long for you my. boy all. human knowledge just a little village 3300 people will be gotten out so i don't think it's no big deal is a big do some big deal it's their lives leg
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a new state this swing through but i don't know if he's going to have. no more. higher. power states to get don't ask us for another 3rd world country. even though it's united states i just see a part of america. they might be americans or diggers or 3rd world countries and there are 3 candidates here it's. kind of new turkey's thinking. the whole of tara you could do to see it. so how is might be too late. in half the town to be moved to the new set by now a. power struggle and money greed to too much money are too.
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guy. to do the. yeah yeah. but i. like people. who look if somebody can get out to church a day bring like 2 bags to you have some i come here with 2 or 3 bags this is for me this is for my sister this is for my brother or me to you know what he said to caesar to jim doing open job as well as he wants candy to go through. a lot. higher up.
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