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  • Chuckie Verdin, Chief of the Pointe-au-Chien Indians waits under a raised building at Point-aux-Chene's boat launch with a group from his tribe and other locals  who were going to work for BP putting out boom when the job was called off due to rain for safety reasons.  Shrimp and crab season were canceled on May 29th when oil and dispersant made it into the nearby waters, putting most of the tribe out of work.
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  • Boat dock in Pointe-au-Chien, Louisiana
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  • Grace Welch with  her cousin Tracie Verdin and  Josh Bergeron and all Pointe-au-Chien Indians living in Pointe aux Chene have been  shrimpers their   whole lives. They signed on to work for BP  putting out boom out  since no other work is available . The first day on the job, all the boats were called back due to inclement weather. All the workers who singed on to work for BP gather under a raised building at  Point-aux-Chene's boat launch waiting for the rain to let up.
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  • Jake Billiot, Grace Welch's cousin,  a Pointe-au-Chien Indian under a raised building at Point-aux-Chene's boat launch with a group from his tribe and other locals  who were going to work for BP putting out boom when the job was called off due to rain for safety reasons.  Shrimp and crab season were canceled on May 29th when oil and dispersant made it into the nearby waters, putting most of the tribe out of work.
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  • Haley Verdin, a nine year old Pointe-aux-Chien Indian,plays with a doll in her bedroom. She is haunted by images of dead dolphins she saw on line connected to the BP oil leak. She like her sisters have lost there jobs working for the cousin Grace Welch who used to take them out to help  her shrimp when they were  not in school.  Shrimp and crab season was canceled on May 29th when oil and dispersant made it into the nearby waters.
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  • Faith Verdin in her grandparents home in Point aux Chene LA.   Her family are all part of the  Pointe-au-Chien Indian tribe. Shrimping and crabbing is how all the embers of her family made a living. Faith has been working for her cousin Grace Welch, but is no longer able since shrimp and crab season were closed on May 29th ,2010. SHe is worried about not being able to eat seafood ever again.
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  • An indian sculpture in the Verdin's home in Pointe aux Chene, The Verdins are part of the Pointe au Chien Indian tride. The families livelihoods are all based on fishing. Shrimp and crab  season was canceled on May 29th when oil and dispersant made it into the nearby waters.
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  • Chuckie Verdin, Chief of the Pointe-au-Chien Indians waits under a raised building at Point-aux-Chene's boat launch with a group from his tribe and other locals  who were going to work for BP putting out boom when the job was called off due to rain for safety reasons.  Shrimp and crab season were canceled on May 29th when oil and dispersant made it into the nearby waters, putting most of the tribe out of work.
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  • Girl in her grandparents home in Point-aux Chene, LA. Her family are all part of the Pointe-au-Chien Indian tribe. Shrimping and crabbing is how all the embers of her family made a living. Faith has been working for her cousin Grace Welch, but is no longer able since shrimp and crab season were closed on May 29th ,2010. SHe is worried about not being able to eat seafood ever again.
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  • A  fishing boat owned by members of  Pointe-aux-Chien Indian living in Pointe aux Chene being used  as a "vessel of opportunity"  to put boom out for BP returning to port after a rain storm.  Crab and shrimp season were officially closed on May 29th, 2010, due  to the BP oil spill that is making its' way into the lakes and bayous close to Pointe-au-Chien.
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  • Sydney Verdin a Pointe-au-Chien Indian living in Pointe aux Chene has been a shrimper his who life until he had a stroke in 2003 with his niece Bambi Bardo in his living room.  His families livelihoods are all based on fishing. Shrimp and crab  season was canceled on May 29th when oil and dispersant made it into the nearby waters. Sydney is trying to get BP to pay for workers to boom of the area around the marsh where his ancestral graveyard is located on Bayou Pointe-au-Chien. Sydney's daughter Grace Welch lives next door and helps care for the families many grand children.  They live in a raised house that sustained damage in Katrina and Gustav and are no strangers to tragedy.
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  • Mandy Verdin part of the Pointe-au-Chien Indian tribe is out of work since they closed shrimp and crab season on May 29th.  She was working with her daughter Grace Welch crabbing but now is staying at home.
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  • Bambi Bardo with her uncle Sydney Verdin, both Pointe-au-Chien Indians living in Pointe aux Chene has been a shrimper his who life until he had a stroke in 2003  in his living room.  His families livelihoods are all based on fishing. Shrimp and crab  season was canceled on May 29th when oil and dispersant made it into the nearby waters. Sydney is trying to get BP to pay for workers to boom of the area around the marsh where his ancestral graveyard is located on Bayou Pointe-au-Chien. Sydney's daughter Grace Welch lives next door and helps care for the families many grand children.  They live in a raised house that sustained damage in Katrina and Gustav and are no strangers to tragedy.
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  • Grace Welch and Josh Bergeron, both part of the Pointe-au Chien Indian tribe in front of her home in Pointe aux Chene LA. Welch inherited the home from her brother who died of a heart attack. <br />
She and Josh work on renovating the home since it was badly damaged by Hurricane Gustav. Both of them have taken jobs with BP to assist in the clean up since they have been closed down from shrimping and crabbing as of May 29th, 2010.
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  • Mandy Verdin, part of the Pointe-au-Chien Indian tribe is out of work since they closed shrimp and crab season on May 29th.  She was working with her daughter Grace Welch crabbing but now is staying at home.
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  • Mandy Verdin, part of the Pointe-au-Chien Indian tribe is out of work since they closed shrimp and crab season on May 29th.  She was working with her daughter Grace Welch crabbing but now is staying at home.
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  • Mandy Verdin, part of the Pointe-au-Chien Indian tribe is out of work since they closed shrimp and crab season on May 29th. She was working with her daughter Grace Welch fishing but now is staying at home. Mandy has emphysema that was limiting her work hours before the season was cancelled and now worries about how her family will support themselves.  Shrimp season was canceled on May 29th when oil and dispersant made it into the nearby waters.
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  • Tracie Verdin,  part of the  Pointe-au-Chien Indian tribe in front of her  church in Pointe aux Chenes  on her  first day of working for BP to lay boom. Work was canceled  due to rain. Tracie has been shrimping since she was two and doesn't not desire doing any other kind of work. Crab and shrimp season were officially closed on May 29th, 2010, due  to the BP oil spill that is making its' way into the lakes and bayous close to Pointe-au-Chien.
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  • Birds on a sign put out by an oil company in Bayou Pointe-au-Chien where  the shrimp and crabbing season was officially  closed on May 29th, 2010 due to the BP oil spill that is making its' way into the lakes and bayous close to Pointe-au-Chien.
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  • Louisiana brown shrimp in the e back of a local shrimpers pickup truck , the last of the season since the area took around Cocodrie and Lake Modicito , Louisiana  has been  officially closed to shrimping. The shrimper waits outside of Price Seafood Inc, in  Chaivin, LA to sell his last shrimp of the season. The shrimper waits outside of Price Seafood Inc, in  Chaivin, LA to sell his last shrimp of the season.
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  • Louisiana brown shrimp in the e back of a local shrimpers pickup truck , the last of the season since the area took around Cocodrie and Lake Modicito , Louisiana  has been  officially closed to shrimping. The shrimper waits outside of Price Seafood Inc, in  Chaivin, LA to sell his last shrimp of the season. The shrimper waits outside of Price Seafood Inc, in  Chaivin, LA to sell his last shrimp of the season.
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  • The lastbrown shrimp of the season caught in Bayou Pointe-au-Chien  where crab and shrimp season were officially closed on May 29th, 2010 due to the BP oil spill that is making its' way into the lakes and bayous close to Pointe-au-Chien.<br />
Grace Welch and Josh Bergeron, part of the Pointe-au Chien Indian tribe head catch on the last day of crab season. crabbing and shrimping season were offically closed on May 29th 2010 due to the BP oil leak.
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  • May 23, 2010, A coating of BP oil  on the grass lining Lake Mondicito  off  Bayou Pointe-au-Chien.
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  • May 23, 2010, A coating of BP oil  on the grass lining Lake Mondicito  off  Bayou Pointe-au-Chien.
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  • May 23, 2010, A coating of BP oil  on the grass lining Lake Mondicito  off  Bayou Pointe-au-Chien.
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  • May 23, 2010, A coating of BP oil  on the grass lining Lake Mondicito  off  Bayou Pointe-au-Chien.
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  • Grace Welch, part of the Pointe-au Chien Indian tribe collects crabs from her traps on the water so Bayou Pointe-au-Chien since crab and shrimp season were officially closed on May 29th, 2010 due to the BP oil spill that is making its' way into the lakes and bayous close to Pointe-au-Chien.g
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  • Aerial view of  Pointe-aux-Chenes, in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana.
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  • Aerial view of  Pointe-aux-Chenes, in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana.
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  • Aerial view of  Pointe-aux-Chenes, in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana.
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