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Native American Tribe Gets Federal Funds to Flee Rising SeasBy: David Hasemyer Source: Inside Climate News Date: 03/16/2016 In a disappearing section of Louisiana coastline, the people who call Isle De Jean Charles home are moving to save their community and culture. |
Louisiana's vanishing island: the climate 'refugees' resettling for $52mBy: Lauren Zanolli Source: The Guardian Date: 03/15/2016 Wenceslaus Billiot, an 88-year-old native of Isle de Jean Charles, Louisiana, remembers growing up on a much different island than the two-mile sliver of his ancestral home that remains today. |
Louisiana Tribe Officially Becomes America's First Climate RefugeesBy: Sean Breslin Source: Weather.com Date: 02/22/2016 French-speaking Indians who live deep in Louisiana bayou, some 50 miles south of New Orleans, became the United States' first official climate refugees last week when the federal government awarded them $48 million to relocate. |
A Louisiana Tribe Is Now Officially A Community Of Climate RefugeesBy: Chris D'Angelo Source: Huff Post Science Date: 02/12/2016 Deep in the bayous of Louisiana, about 80 miles southwest of New Orleans, lies the Isle de Jean Charles, a tiny swath of land that’s all but vanished into the Gulf of Mexico. |