From Pacific News Service: Katrina’s forgotten victims: Native American tribes
The early news headlines for Hurricane Katrina highlighted some black New Orleans residents “taking” goods from businesses. Days later, the coverage shifted from “looting” to sympathetic coverage of black evacuees and criticism of President Bush and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. But despite the constant media coverage, Native Americans have become Katrina’s forgotten victims.
Native American tribes that stretch across the Gulf States of Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi affected by the wrath of Hurricane Katrina largely have been ignored.
“What we are hearing is there has been no contact or minimum contact with most of the tribes,” said Robert Holden, National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), who estimates there are several thousand Native Americans living in the hurricane’s path. But like other news accounts regarding the dead, there are no firm numbers on the death toll.
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