• Sacred and Submerged

  • Dec 4 2024
  • Length: 24 mins
  • Podcast

  • Summary

  • The Lemon Tree Mound is a sacred place for the Atakapa/Ishak-Chawasha tribe. And it's disappearing under the rising waters of the Gulf of Mexico. In this episode, we travel out into the bayous of South Louisiana to understand what this one small sacred place means for the Land Back Movement and climate justice, and why efforts to save our coast matter, even if they really mean only buying time.

    Click here to read more about the return of the sacred land to the tribe, and here to learn more about the efforts to save it.

    This episode was hosted and reported by Eva Tesfaye, Drew Hawkins, and Danny McArthur. Carlyle Calhoun is the managing producer. Our sound designer is Emily Jankowski and our theme music is by Jon Batiste.

    Sea Change is a WWNO and WRKF production. We're a part of the NPR Podcast Network and distributed by PRX. Sea Change is made possible with major support from the Gulf Research Program of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. WWNO's Coastal Desk is supported by the Walton Family Foundation, the Meraux Foundation and the Greater New Orleans Foundation.

















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    Eva Tesfaye

    And here’s mine https://www.wwno.org/coastal-desk/2024-10-02/less-land-more-water-grand-bayou-indian-village-builds-oyster-reef-for-protection


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