.reuterspictures shows how the livelihood of some Native American tribes have been affected by climate change EarthDay2020
Sharp poses for a portrait in her office.
Tribes are ill-equipped to adapt their reservations to increasing threats from storms, flooding, drought and wildfire because their communities are typically poor and federal programs offer scant support. The Interior Department’s Bureau of Indian Affairs provides $10 million a year for tribal climate resilience planning nationwide, and FEMA provides another $20 million to tribes under a “pre-disaster” fund to protect communities from natural disasters.
“Those who are directly responsible for causing the damage should be paying,” she said, for "generations of exploitation.” After the steelhead season comes the sockeye blueback run, a salmon fishery unique to the Quinault reservation that has all but disappeared. For a third straight April, the Quinault have closed the river to blueback fishing after its fisheries department forecast a fifth consecutive record-low run.Guy Capoeman, an artist, stands next to a totem pole, a monumental carving which is a type of Northwest Coast art, that he carved of a woman holding a fish.
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