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BP Spill and Louisiana Tribes: “This oil is just going to finish us.”

Posted on June 1, 2010June 1, 2010 by Rick Harp

The Miami Herald has published a comprehensive look by reporter Joseph Goodman at how the ever-flowing BP oil spill threatens to impact the region’s Indigenous peoples, namely, the Chitimacha and the Houma. As far back as May 6, 2010, the chief of Pointe-au-Chien shared his concern with mediaINDIGENA about the spill, given “almost 80% of […]

Louisiana Tribe Fears the Worst as Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Reaches Coast

Posted on May 6, 2010May 10, 2010 by Tim Fontaine

The Chief of the Point-au-Chien Tribe of Biloxi-Chitimacha Indians is keeping a nervous eye on his community after news that oil from a massive spill has reached the coast of Louisiana. Pointe-au-Chien is about an hour and a half’s drive southwest of New Orleans, LA. Chief Charles “Chuckie” Verdin told mediaINDIGENA in a phone call this […]





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