Ep. 4: "To Remain and Reclaim": Indigenous Louisianians reflect on the ever-changing bayou

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The saying goes that in Louisiana, the coast loses about a football field of land every 100 minutes. Coastal Louisianians, especially Indigenous residents, are facing the brunt of land loss, seeing their ways of life slow-changing and having to adapt for survival. One predominantly Indigenous community living off the coast, Isle de Jean Charles, is already among one of the first climate migrants in the country. The last episode of Engulfed pieces together the impact of coastal erosion on Southeast Louisiana and how it’s threatening indigenous communities’ ways of life.