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When the next storm hits, the people of Shaktoolik will simply have to hold on to what they have and hope for the best.
Jon Rosales: Remember Shaktoolik Jon Rosales 2010
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I have to say, I'm angry as well, given our government's failure to pass legislation that would assist the people of Shaktoolik and 30 other Alaskan communities adapt to conditions caused by climate change.
Jon Rosales: Remember Shaktoolik Jon Rosales 2010
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My research interests have brought me to Shaktoolik, a village of 250, located on the southern part of the Bering Strait, the U.S. side of the land bridge that once stretched over to Siberia.
Jon Rosales: Remember Shaktoolik Jon Rosales 2010
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Should we wait for Shaktoolik to disappear before acting?
Jon Rosales: Remember Shaktoolik Jon Rosales 2010
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Proximity to marine and freshwater environments made Shaktoolik an excellent place to live with easy access to game, bird eggs, and edible tundra plants and berries.
Jon Rosales: Remember Shaktoolik Jon Rosales 2010
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While villages like Shaktoolik have received scant coverage in the mediapress, Congress has been kept informed for years.
Jon Rosales: Remember Shaktoolik Jon Rosales 2010
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Inaction by the Senate is infuriatingly difficult to fathom, given how vulnerable the people of Shaktoolik and other Alaskan villages are, and the amount of information our leaders have on climate change and conditions in the Arctic.
Jon Rosales: Remember Shaktoolik Jon Rosales 2010
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Next time, the people of Shaktoolik may not be so fortunate.
Jon Rosales: Remember Shaktoolik Jon Rosales 2010
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The village lines up along a sand-and-gravel barrier island no wider than a few hundred yards, with the sea on one side and the Shaktoolik River on the other.
Jon Rosales: Remember Shaktoolik Jon Rosales 2010
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The Arctic sea alongside the village of Shaktoolik, Alaska, is angrier than it has ever been in the memory of those that live there.
Jon Rosales: Remember Shaktoolik Jon Rosales 2010
chained_bear commented on the word Shaktoolik
"The richness and subtlety of the Eskimo language can be seen just in the naming of Shaktoolik. The word means 'sandbar,' after the location of the town. And it also means 'stretched out.' One Eskimo in Unalakleet described yet another meaning: 'Further, it means the feeling you have when you have been going toward a place for so long that it seems that you will never get there.'"
--Gay Salisbury and Laney Salisbury, The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race against an Epidemic (NY and London: W.W. Norton & Co., 2003), 197
January 24, 2017