Climate change forces Native American tribes to relocate
CBSN
The Quileute Tribe in western Washington has lost land before. It once called vast swaths of the Olympic Peninsula home until the late 1800s when the U.S. government confined it to just one square mile pressed up against the Pacific Ocean. The reservation is prone to flooding and tsunamis.
The Quileute's tribal village, home to about 400 people, is now threatened by the Pacific's rising waters due to climate change. Storms are getting more severe and pushing dangerous debris into town and consuming the tribe's land.
Jaedyn Black, a student at the Quileute Tribal School on the western edge of the peninsula, said "water is a big part" of their culture. She pointed to a tree on the water's edge that has long been a spot for people to gather but is barely holding on.
