At the Edge of Tomorrow
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A docuseries showcasing Alaska Native resilience and determination.
Follow the challenges facing a small indigenous-owned construction company working to bring running water, sewer, and basic infrastructure improvements to the Inupiaq community in one of Alaska’s most remote villages in Alaska’s Bering Straits region. Little Diomede is accessible only by air and water and hosts 10,000-year ancestral roots and traditions that embody its lifestyle of today.
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At the Edge of Tomorrow is a local public television program presented by AK
At the Edge of Tomorrow
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Follow the challenges facing a small indigenous-owned construction company working to bring running water, sewer, and basic infrastructure improvements to the Inupiaq community in one of Alaska’s most remote villages in Alaska’s Bering Straits region. Little Diomede is accessible only by air and water and hosts 10,000-year ancestral roots and traditions that embody its lifestyle of today.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipThe day is coming to close here on Little diamet Island, Alaska USA.
Some people are happy where they were born and raised.
Just that's the system my nephew caught.
You draw a line between these two land masses.
That's where the International Date Line is.
No other place in the world like here little baby.
at the edge of tomorrow We live in a state of economic poverty, but I believe that culturally and spiritually we are one of the richest people in the world.
Time here is our own agenda.
It stands still a little longer for you to get something done or learn something better from it.
Not many people know about this year or Village out here in the middle of the street.
I'm sure they don't have rain water.
Do they?
Nope?
Not a single house has running water.
Oh my God.
I always dreamed about running water.
That's all I ever dipped about in a house.
When was this house built?
19 19 You see their small bathroom.
It is intentional racial discrimination to deny indigenous communities access to basic things such as water sewer.
Can you believe that there's no flush toilet in a village that has been there for 100 years, and there's no running water.
I can do something about that.
The kayak is absolutely critical.
If we don't have this boat, we don't have a business.
We really need this boat to bring our supplies to die me.
climate change Go more.
We live it.
We experience you see it.
Our region is experiencing increased marine Vessel traffic.
We're going to experience a second wave of westward expansion.
If Alaska was a country we would be the eighth resource richest country in the world.
Alaska is the most strategic place on Earth.
We are actually right in the center and the business will be transhipping on a large scale the Northwest Passage.
This is why people have been coming to Alaska you're gonna bring more players into the Alaskan space.
We've seen Russia resurrect up to 50 Soviet air bases in and around the Arctic Russia.
Certainly China China is building nuclear icebreakers.
You will meet them up here eventually.
We got a boatload of stuff.
We are going to die me there's more need for housing out here.
We've exceeded the budget multiple multiple times and we are going to have a boat or we won't damn near bankrupted us still can I think the whole world should take a look at indigenous people.
Your mama, I love my daughters basically to find our humanity and moral compass again.
It's pretty amazing here.
This place has some very good energy.
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