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September 4, 2015

Residents of eroding Alaskan village want funding for evacuation road

By RACHEL D’ORO
Associated Press

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Residents of a Native village threatened by erosion were thankful for President Barack Obama's attention to their plight, saying they hope his visit to Alaska will help them secure funding to build a critical evacuation road to drier ground.

Even with a protective ocean rock wall, the impoverished Inupiat Eskimo community of Kivalina has no more than a decade left before erosion begins to force people from their homes, said Millie Hawley, president of Kivalina's tribal council.


 
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