Associated Press: Like many American Indians on the bayou, Emary Billiot blames oil companies for ruining his ancestral marsh over the decades. Still, he's always been able to fish -- but now even that is not a certainty. An oil spill -- 5 million gallons and counting -- spreading across the Gulf of Mexico has closed bays and lakes in Louisiana's bountiful delta, including fishing grounds that feed the last American-Indian villages in three parishes. It is a bitter blow for the tribes of south ......
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United States: Spill reinforces oil bad will for American Indians
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 18th, 2010
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