Polar fleeced: Sen. Ted Stevens built a welfare state for Eskimos that made defense contractors rich.

From: Washington Monthly | Date: July 1, 2005| Author: Wallace-Wells, Benjamin | Copyright information

Many remote places claim to be the end of the earth, but the tiny Eskimo village of Tatitlik, set in near-mythic isolation on a small beach on Alaska's Prince William Sound, has a better case than most. The village has stood for a thousand years on a small strip of sediment that has collected at the point where the Chugach Mountains soar out of the sound. There are three dirt roads in Tatitlik, which loop around the beach and connect back to one another; you can only get in or out ...

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