The World

Bye-Bye Bayou

Katrina took their homes. BP’s oil took their jobs. Coastal erosion could take their very land. The people of Grand Bayou Village in Louisiana’s Plaquemines live in a microcosm of the major challenges facing the region.

Katrina took their homes. BP’s spill took their jobs. And coastal erosion is taking the very land their ancestors called home for centuries. But the tiny, Native American community of Grand Bayou Village is determined to hang on. Host Jeff Young returns to Louisiana’s Plaquemines Parish to find out how the people of Grand Bayou he met in the wake of Hurricane Katrina are doing five years after the storm.