American Indians Continue to Rebuild After Katrina

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... Three months after Hurricane Rita struck, FEMA trailers had still not been delivered to the island. A FEMA representative in Baton Rouge said that according to her records, four trailers had been delivered to Point-aux-Chenes, but as of early December, Chief Albert Naquin of the Isle de Jean Charles band of the Biloxi-Chitimacha Indians said that none had shown up. Instead, non-profit organizations have stepped in to aid the Indians. Mennonite Disaster Services is one organization that is helping the Indians rebuild their community ...

http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=92f3c295cb5faf19b5f45ed9bf36b9ce

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1. damn...

my wife, through her work, got two trailer's of food/clothes/water donated to a tribe down in Louisiana who was effected by the Hurricane, but for the life of me, I cannot recall which tribe it was. I will talk to her tomorrow, and post back some particulars later...btw, the tribe recieved no help from FEMA or the Red Cross, until my wife's company got involved, her company was the first to offer assistance...

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2. It was...

the Houma Nation, that my wife got trailers of food/clothes/water for. It was the first help that tribe had recieved from anyone.