There is simply nothing they could do. There is no work in the village and they are reluctant to leave. And this is what we tried to discuss in the newspaper office in Alaska. To start with, I thought the interpreter was to blame. Then it turned out the misunderstanding was running deeper.
Local people work as teachers, librarians, doctors, they do logistics and keep tiny shops.
Hang on, but all of them work for the state. I was getting tired of the American thickness. Damn it, why not shut them down on grounds of absence of realism, why not move villagers into a big city. The unemployment has dropped to catastrophic figures. This is an economic dead-end.