Les Vues November -- Can't Stop the Water

Name: Les Vues November -- Can't Stop the Water
Start: 2024-11-25T19:30:00-05:00
End: 2024-11-25T21:00:00-05:00
Location: 300 Fisher Rd, Lafayette, LA, United States, Louisiana 70508

Schedule

Mon Nov 25 2024 at 07:30 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

300 Fisher Rd, Lafayette, LA, United States, Louisiana 70508 | Lafayette, LA

Join us for November's Les Vues offering, our FREE Film Series. Can't Stop the Water tells the story of Isle de Jean Charles, Louisiana and the Native American community fighting to save its culture as its land washes away.
For 170 years, a tribe of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Indians has occupied Isle de Jean Charles, an island deep in the Louisiana bayous. They have fished, hunted, and lived off the land. Now the land that has sustained them for generations is vanishing before their eyes. Years of gas and oil exploration have ravaged the surrounding marsh, leaving the island defenseless against the ocean tide that will eventually destroy it. As Chief Albert Naquin desperately looks for a way to bring his tribe together on higher ground, those that remain on the island cling to the hope that they can stay.