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Mary Peltola: “We have 56 villages in the region that I'm from. My region…”

Featuring: Mary Peltola, Democratic | Former U.S. House Representative, Alaska At-Large

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Breaking Bread, Sharing Salad & Final Four Voting: Alaska Representative Mary Peltola

Published | Video Starts at 04:24

Our nearest town that's bigger than Bethel is 400 miles away. You can only get there through Alaska airlines on a 737. And our commodities are all either freighted in by cargo plane or barges. We have 56 villages in the region that I'm from. My region is the size of Oregon, the region that I'm originally from. We have 56 villages, none of which are connected by road. And then in the larger state of Alaska, we really have six states within a state where three Californias or more than two Texas. (04:24–04:35)

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Asserts that the region Mary Peltola is from has 56 villages, none of which are connected by road, and the region is the size of Oregon.

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