Isle de Jean Charles | |
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  Isle de Jean Charles Location of Isle de Jean Charles in Louisiana  Isle de Jean Charles Isle de Jean Charles (the United States) | |
| Coordinates: 29°23′15″N 90°28′59″W / 29.38750°N 90.48306°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Louisiana |
| Parish | Terrebonne |
| Elevation | 2 ft (0.6 m) |
| Population (2019) | |
| • Total | 26 |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (CST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| Area code | 985 |
Isle de Jean Charles (known locally in Louisiana French as Isle à Jean Charles) is a narrow ridge of land situated in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. For over 170 years, it has been the historical homeland and burial ground of the state-recognized tribe of the Isle de Jean Charles Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Indians.[1] Residents of the Island have long been threatened by Louisiana's coastal erosion, as coastal Louisiana loses a landmass the size of Manhattan every year.[2] In 1955, Isle de Jean Charles consisted of over 22,000 acres (8,900 ha) and has since lost about 98% of its land due to saltwater intrusion, and subsidence.[3][4][5][6] In January 2016, the state of Louisiana received substantial funding from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development to fund a community resettlement that was designed.[7]
- ^ Isle de Jean Charles Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Indians, official website
- ^ Rich, Nathaniel (2014-10-03). "The Most Ambitious Environmental Lawsuit Ever". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-04-14.
- ^ Thomas, David et al., 2016. The Dictionary of Physical Geography, Fourth Edition, Wiley Blackwell, p. 471
- ^ Isle de Jean Charles Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Indians Resettlement Project, resettlement project website
- ^ Wolstencroft, M.; Shen, Zh.; Törnqvist, T.; Milne, G.; Kulp, M.; 2014. Understanding subsidence in the Mississippi Delta region due to sediment, ice, and ocean loading. Insight from geophysical modelling" [in:] Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 119, 3838-3856, 31 March 2014; published online: 28 APR 2014, http://www.tulane.edu/~tor/documents/JGR2014.pdf
- ^ Törnqvist, T.; Wallace, D.; Storms J.; Wallinga, J.; van Dam, R.; Blaauw, M.; Derksen, M.;, Klerks, C.; Meijneken, C.; Snijders, E., 2008. Mississippi Delta subsidence primarily caused by compaction of Holocene strata, [in:] Nature Geoscience 1, 173 - 176 (2008), Published online: 17 February 2008 | doi:10.1038/ngeo129 http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v1/n3/full/ngeo129.html
- ^ Davenport, Coral; Robertson, Campbell (2016-05-02). "Resettling the First American 'Climate Refugees'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-04-14.