Nathan Jessee speaks with Louisiana Gulf Coast Tribal leaders about the social and environmental threats they face and their efforts to ensure social and ecological futures.

A Conversation with Tribal Leaders from Louisiana’s Gulf Coast

For over a century, extractive industries, practices, and policies have threatened human and non-human life throughout the Mississippi River Delta region. Recent state-driven delta governance has largely excluded the descendants of the first peoples to inhabit the region and done nothing to ensure their continued lifeways, governance, and ecological relations. In this interview, Nathan Jessee, a visiting assistant professor of Environmental Studies at Tulane University, speaks with Tribal leaders about social and environmental threats and their efforts to ensure social and ecological futures.