that alaska is part of america some believe it. or russia but many believe that it's own country and they wonder what kind of money they're going to have to use when they're here and what language we speak. i've actually had people compliment you sound just like in america. gary a school called has lived in the small settlement of check on the law since birth there are more than twenty school cos here his grandfather knew only a few english words gary however doesn't speak russian my grandfather passed away a couple of decades ago and my grandmother. passed away soon after that just some distance from here my father's buried him and most of my relatives and one day i will be too. right after the peninsula was sold to the americans the village was built on the seashore all of the employees of the russian american company who refused to move to russia had been banished here by the us government one of the older buildings is right down below it doesn't have a window in it and built in...