Annie Parfait, a Houma Nation elder, sits outside her home in Dulac, La., on Sept. 21, three weeks after Hurricane Ida made landfall in southeast Louisiana.

Colleen Billiot, left, and her grandfather, United Houma Nation Council member Pete Billiot, discuss the efforts to save their tribe’s language at home in St. Bernard Parish in Louisiana.

For many of these communities, disaster strikes twice: first from the storm, and again from the systems meant to help them ...

Six years ago, the United Houma Nation got its chance to give new life to the long-abandoned Daigleville School building on Myrtle Street by converting it into a museum and ...

The United Houma Nation has about 14,000 members across Terrebonne, Lafourche and four other parishes. The native American tribe is also a nonprofit that provides a variety of social services to ...

The Houma Nation is the largest with 19,000 members spread across six parishes, and it's suffered some of the worst damage. August Creppel is the chief of the Houma Nation, and he joins us now ...

The Houma Nation, a 17,000-member tribe nestled across coastal Terrebonne, Lafourche, Jefferson, St. Mary, St. Bernard and Plaquemines parishes, relies mainly on the land and sea to provide ...

United Houma Nation Chief Lora Ann Chaisson (left), attorney Derrick Prentice (center) and landowner Michael Heck (right) sign an Act of Donation to give two sacred mounds back to the tribe on ...

Inhabiting a region that is covered by 90% water and marshland, many of the Houma tribe, which includes about 17,000 people in Southeastern Louisiana, earn their living through fishing, shrimping ...

The United Houma Nation, the largest Indigenous tribe in Louisiana, has secured a $56.5 million grant to enact a massive plan to deal with growing climate risks that tribal leaders hope will serve ...

Chief Thomas Dardar of the Houma Nation stood over a kettle of boiling oil at the New Orleans Jazz Fest, gently tending fry bread dough as it cooked. With canola oil in the kettle heated to 350 ...

Most of that money is going to the United Houma Nation, which received $56.5 million to implement its Hazard Mitigation and Resilience Plan. The United Houma Nation is the largest tribe in ...