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Four Directions Action Alert: Urgent Help Neded for Gustav Survivors
Friday, September 05 2008 @ 05:51 PM CDT
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Breaking News Despite the rosy media reports of light damage from
Hurricane Gustav, several of southern Lousiana’s coastal Indigenous communities are
reeling from a direct hit by Hurricane Gustav’s 115mph winds and large storm surge.
Their communities lie in shambles. The communities of lower Pointe-au-Chien, home of
the Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe (PACIT), and the Isle de Jean Charles (“The
Island”) Band of the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Confederation of Muskogees (BCCM) are
still trying to assess the severe damage and what it will take to rebuild after
Gustav’s devastating winds and storm-surge flooded homes, knocked
buildings off their foundations, and decimated the primary source of income in the
early season commercial shrimp harvest. The Island is still inaccessible due to
prevailing flood waters.