Members of the Isle de Jean Charles Choctaw Nation and United Houma Nation tribes are the first communities in the U.S. to be displaced by climate change.
From the Grand Canyon to Mount Rushmore, if the routinely flouted U.S. treaties with Indigenous people were honored, this would be a very different country.
The landmark Supreme Court decision gives the five tribes a say over oil and gas wells, refineries, and pipelines — including those running to the Cushing hub of the Keystone XL, legal experts say.
