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SUMMARY: Native Americans' tribal lands along the Louisiana coast are washing away as sea levels rise and marshes sink. Part of our Coping with Climate Change series, Hari Sreenivasan reports from Isle de Jean Charles, a community that is slowly disappearing into the sea.
MARGARET WARNER (Newshour): Now: Coping With Climate Change.
In this edition of our series, Hari Sreenivasan reports from the Louisiana Gulf Coast, where rising seawater is claiming the land people have lived on for centuries.
Louisiana Public Broadcasting was our partner in this report.
HARI SREENIVASAN (Newshour): It used to be a long walk for Theresa Dardar to reach her ancestors' cemetery here in coastal Louisiana. We had to take a boat ride with her to visit the burial site that is surrounded by water, because coastal Louisiana is sinking and the sea level around it is rising.
THERESA DARDAR, Pointe-au-Chien Tribe Member: We're not going to have anything for our children to see, you know, if it keeps on washing away, if they don't try to stop it some kind of way. So, they will never see what we saw.
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