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Resettling the First American Climate RefugeesBy: CORAL DAVENPORT and CAMPBELL ROBERTSON Source: New York Times Date: 05/02/2016 A $48 million grant for Isle de Jean Charles, La., is the first allocation of federal tax dollars to move an entire community struggling with the effects of climate change. |
Who gets to move off the island? Local American Indian tribes disagreeBy: Jacob Batte Source: Houma Courier/Daily Comet Date: 04/23/2016 Delegates from an American Indian tribe living on Isle de Jean Charles and state officials disagree over how to spend millions of dollars intended to move the island's residents away from the encroaching Gulf of Mexico. |
Isle de Jean Charles tribe looks at moving entire community north in first-of-its-kind test caseBy: Amy Wold Source: The Advocate Date: 04/09/2016 Looking out from the house he built in 1959 with lumber brought by boat to this island at the south end of Terrebonne Parish, Wenceslaus Billiot remembers when the view from his back porch was thick forest and solid marsh. |
'There's no more land'By: John D. Sutter Source: CNN Date: 04/08/2016 Wenceslaus Billiot, an 89-year-old with suede-soft eyes and a bayou-French accent, asked me to follow him onto the second-story balcony of his stork-legged house here in the southern Louisiana marshland. |
Native Community Will Move to Higher Ground in LouisianaBy: Anne Brock Source: Triple Pundit Date: 04/04/2016 A native community in southern Louisiana hopes to make a historic move to higher ground, now that it has received a major federal grant for relocation. Awaiting finalization from the state, the tribe hopes to relocate within the next few years. |
The lucky ones: Native American tribe receives $48m to flee climate changeBy: Autumn Spanne Source: The Guardian Date: 03/23/2016 In Louisiana, the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw tribe has been awarded a natural disaster grant to resettle away from their sinking land. But other indigenous Americans have no way out |
The First U.S. Climate RefugeesBy: Christopher Flavelle Source: Bloomberg View Date: 03/20/2016 Early one morning at the beginning of March, two black Chevy Suburbans filled with federal and state development officials left New Orleans for Louisiana's coast. Almost two hours later, they turned onto Island Road, a low spit of asphalt nearly three miles long with water on either side. |
Native American tribe to relocate from Louisiana coast as sea levels riseBy: Sebastien Malo Source: Reuters News Service/reprinted in Baton Rouge Business Report Date: 03/17/2016 A small Native American community in coastal Louisiana is to be resettled after losing nearly all its land partly due to rising seas, a first in the United States. |
Rising sea levels force U.S. to resettle Native American tribeBy: Erik Andersen Source: PBS News Hour Date: 03/17/2016 A Native American tribe located in coastal Louisiana will become the first community in U.S. history to be relocated due, in part, to rising sea levels, said Marion McFadden, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, on Thursday. |