While the Isle de Jean Charles Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Indians move through a contentious relocation effort as their island is slowly swallowed by water, other Louisiana tribes and an Alaskan tribe facing similar predicaments have made their plights known to the United Nations by submitting a formal complaint. On Jan. 15, The Alaskan Institute for […]
Two Brothers Recall Living Through Hurricane Harvey
The picture of southern hospitality, 65-year-old Roger Molaison stood outside his childhood home in Houma, Louisiana and assured people with a warm smile that they had, in fact, found the garage sale. He invited them into the house with a firm handshake and a friendly pat on the back where his 70-year-old brother, Richard Molaison, […]
Isle de Jean Charles Resident Doesn’t Feel Like a Climate Change Refugee
When 54-year-old Chris Brunet noticed a group of young adults with notepads and cameras standing outside his stilt house, he excitedly rolled his wheelchair onto the powered lift to greet them with a big smile and a firm handshake. Brunet, a proud member of Isle de Jean Charles’ band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Indians, has grown used to the sight of inquisitive journalists. Some of these journalists called the people of his tribe America’s first […]