You're number 1: Alaska village up first in census

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Source: ap

NOORVIK, Alaska – The U.S. Census Bureau is launching its 2010 count of the nation's residents in a remote Alaska village.

Census Bureau Director Robert Groves is flying to Noorvik in northwest Alaska on Monday to count the first household in the Inupiat Eskimo community of 650. Groves and other arriving officials are scheduled to be taken to the village school by sled dog teams driven by schoolchildren.

The first to be counted will be Clifton Jackson, a World War II veteran and the oldest resident, according to residents.

Villagers have prepared a day of festivities at the school to welcome Groves and other visiting federal, state and tribal officials. The residents plan to hold traditional dances, an Inupiat fashion show and a feast of subsistence foods including moose and caribou.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100125/ap_on_re_us/us_census_launch_alaska

[RantinRavin]

1. Good to know

They have solved the debt problem and now have extra money to spend on joyrides.

[Chulanowa]

5. How dare you post on the internet while people are dead in Haiti!

And starving in Africa!
And being oppressed in China!
etc.

[XemaSab]

8. You would be FLOORED at how much it costs to contact people who don't mail back their forms

Events like this that raise publicity for the census are probably more cost-effective than not.

Also, a lot of stuff gets donated. I would wager that the sled-dog teams were not paid for.

[izquierdista]

2. Feast of subsistence

There's an oxymoron for you.

[Arctic Dave]

3. They are Inupiat, not Inupiat Eskimo.

[Xithras]

6. Deleted.

[GeorgeGist]

4. Do idiots count?

Film at eleven.

[underpants]

7. Clifton Jackson

I love it. Person #1