The Houma Nation, Undone by the Gulf Oil Spill

The Houma Nation, about 17,000 people who live on the Louisiana coast who are not recognized by the federal government, somehow, are a fishing community! Which, hoo boy. Their principal chief tells NPR: “We are discussing the future of our communities. Our people are not able to go out on their fishing vessels anymore. The season has been closed and that’s the way that they earn their living. Where other people live check to check, we live catch to catch.”