ICT’s Editor-at-Large Mark Trahant travels to the Quinault Indian Nation on Washington state’s Pacific coast Northwest to check in on the tribe’s efforts to move an entire ancestral village from the mouth of the Quinault River to higher ground and away from a rising sea.
The nation began planning the relocation project decades ago is just one of many Indigenous communities on the leading edge of crafting solutions to our looming climate crisis. ICT will visit many of these in the coming years as this report marks the beginning of a five year partnership between ICT, PBS Newshour and the National Science Foundation to examine the dynamic nexus between climate change and Native nations.
Shirley Sneve, Ponca/Sicangu Lakota, is the senior producer for the ICT Newscast. Follow her on Twitter @rosebudshirley. She is based in Nebraska.
Aliyah Chavez, Kewa Pueblo, is the anchor of the ICT Newscast. On Twitter: @aliyahjchavez.
Paris Wise, Zia and Laguna Pueblo, is a producer for the ICT Newscast. Email: paris@ictnews.org.
Stewart Huntington is a producer for the ICT Newscast. stewart@ictnews.org
Quindrea Yazzie, Diné, is a video production editor for the ICT Newscast. Email: qyazzie@ictnews.org. Yazzie is based in Phoenix.
Daniel Herrera Carbajal is a video editor for the ICT Newscast. On Twitter: @daniulherrrera
Pauly Denetclaw, Diné, is a political correspondent for ICT. Email: pauly@ictnews.org
Pacey Smith-Garcia, Ute, is a production assistant for the ICT Newscast. On Twitter: @paceyjournalist.
Ebonye Delaney is the Executive Producer for the ICT Newscast. Email: ebonye@ictnews.org
Mark Trahant, Shoshone-Bannock, is ICT editor-at-large Email: marktrahant@ictnews.org
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