ALJAZAM Fault Lines February 17, 2015
Came here to escape settlers 300 years ago, building homes in the marshland. Our people always had our villages along bayou waterways because it just provided so much for us. But today an ecological disaster is unfolding, threatening the tribes traditions and most of all, its land. An area of land the size of manhattan is subtracted from south louisiana every 10 months it turns to water. A football field every 30 minutes, an area the size of delaware the whole state of delaware since the 1930s. Its just astonishing how much land is being disappeared. Fault lines is here to find out why souther...