Native Americans Fear their Future in the Oil Zone

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| Thu Jun. 3, 2010 9:41 AM PDT

Check out this Natural Resources Defense Council OnEarth magazine video about the impacts of the oil spill on the Native American Atakapa-Ishak people who call Louisiana's Grand Bayou home. For generations the Philippe family has relied on these lands and waters for fish, shrimp, crabs, and oysters. Now they don't know what they're going to do.

 

 

 

 

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