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Environment
Adriana Navarro

‘We Are Resilient People’: A Project To Keep Cultures And Land Above Water

Chantel Comardelle serves as the Executive Secretary of the Isle de Jean Charles Tribe and Director of the Preserving Our Place Movement. (Chantel Comardelle)

Separated by thousands of miles, two Indigenous groups are working together to elevate their voices on a shared problem that’s exacerbated by climate change.

Chantel Comardelle, the tribal secretary of the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw in Jean Charles, Louisiana, and Dennis Davis, a Kigiqtamiut Inupiat artist from Shishmaref, Alaska, live nearly 4,000 miles apart. Yet their joint-effort photography piece featuring their islands tells a shared story of the threat of displacement and worry over losing close-held traditions and ways of life.

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