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...mine could ruin their livelihoods. Sustainability - the idea that there are alternatives to exploiting natural resources without regard for the consequences - is no longer such a suspicious term. "Do we want to embrace the mine, a resource that will be played out in 50 years?" says Verner Wilson, a Yupik Eskimo and Bristol Bay native who works with WWF. "Or do we want to embrace a resource like the fish that we can manage for thousands of years...
...heartwarming scene in the coldest of climates. Ora Gologergen, 72, boarded Alaska Airlines' "Friendship One" flight in Nome for the 40-minute trip to Provideniya, U.S.S.R., a bleak town of dilapidated concrete buildings across the Bering Sea. There, with hugs and shouts in Yupik, her native language, she was reunited with her close childhood friend, Uksima Uksima, 73, a Siberian Eskimo. The two are among the thousands of Eskimos separated in 1948 when the cold war dropped an Ice Curtain across the Bering Strait, closing the Alaska-Siberia passage. With this flight, about 25 Eskimos living on the American side...
Some of that dislocation will occur in the 56 villages for which Bethel serves as a hub. Tony Vaska, 38, a Yupik Indian who was born upriver in Kalskag, earned a doctorate at Stanford and now is the interim Bethel city manager, sees it coming. "The villages are going to feel it the most as teachers' aides get cut. And 99% of them are native." That will ripple back to Bethel. "Everything is one big question mark," says Dave Foster, 46, general manager of Swanson's, the largest retail store in town. "I don't think we've seen...
...program affected 25,000 children. This year the federal program alone will handle an estimated 500,000. Begun as a local option available to poor children who are weak in English, bilingual ed is now a federally enforceable right for children speaking any one of 70 native tongues, from Yupik to Yapese, from Vietnamese to Russian. Collectively it costs Americans $700 million a year. It will soon cost more. With schools reopening next week, the Department of Education will launch public hearings in six cities (Chicago, Denver, New York, New Orleans, San Antonio and San Francisco) about Government proposals...
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