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Native Climate Refugees is a long-term photographic and oral-history project documenting the Isle de Jean Charles Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha- Choctaw—recognized by the federal government as the first American Indian community in the United States to be officially displaced by climate change. Their ancestral lands in coastal Louisiana are now 98% underwater. In 2016, the tribe was awarded $48 million to relocate to higher ground in Schriever, Louisiana, nearly 50 miles north. This project captures a pivotal moment in American history: the first federally funded climate relocation of an Indigenous community, and the profound cultural, emotional, and political implications of that transition.
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For exhibition, the photographs will be printed as archival pigment prints on museum-quality fine-art paper. The primary exhibition format will consist of large-scale prints measuring approximately 30 x 40 inches and 40 x 60 inches. Select environmental images may be produced even larger—up to 48 x 72 inches—to create immersive anchor works within the installation.