"Louisiana, Alaskan Tribes File UN Climate Change Complaint", 17 January 2020

Four coastal Louisiana tribes and one in Alaska that say the U.S. government violated their human rights by failing to take action on climate change have submitted a formal complaint to the United Nations... Sea-level rise and coastal erosion are drowning tribal burial sites in South Louisiana... [This] " threatens the tribes' source of food", said Shirell Parfait-Dardar, chief of the Grand Caillou and Dulac Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Indians... "We’re not only losing our homeland. We lose so much more than that. We lose our culture. We lose our identity" [She added]... All four Louisiana tribes lack a key legal instrument to fight for their futures: federal recognition... Intervention by the United Nations is necessary because the federal and state governments have not done enough, Ferguson-Bohnee said [a member of the Pointe-au-Chien tribe and director of the Indian Legal Clinic at Arizona State University]... “By failing to act, the U.S. government has placed these Tribes at existential risk,” the complaint said.