Presbyterian Mission Agency pointe-au-chien indian tribe Archives

Visiting the lowlands of Louisiana gives Presbyterians firsthand view of climate change

Posted April 25th, 2024

Five years ago, members of the Committee on Mission Responsibility Through Investment (MRTI) visited South Louisiana to see the devastating effects of climate change on Native American tribes living in the coastal bayous.

Visiting the lowlands of Louisiana gives Presbyterians first-hand view of climate change

Posted March 14th, 2024

Five years ago, members of the Committee on Mission Responsibility Through Investment (MRTI) visited South Louisiana to see the devastating effects of climate change on Native American Tribes living in the coastal bayous.

New Orleans Young Adult Volunteers respond to tribe impacted by Hurricane Ida

Posted September 23rd, 2021

Following hurricane Ida’s South Louisiana landfall late last month, the New Orleans Young Adult Volunteer (YAV) site turned a learning relationship with the Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe in Terrebonne Parish into a service opportunity.

Day 2 of CPJ Days is a rough one for capitalism

Posted April 9th, 2021

On Thursday, Compassion, Peace & Justice Training Days participants heard about the work of people fighting for the survival of marginalized communities in the face of environmental degradation, racism, and rapacious capitalism, which often seemed to be one in the same.

A fact-finding launch

Posted March 13th, 2019

Last week during their first day engaging communities in South Louisiana that were hit hard by natural and human-caused environmental disasters, members of the Mission Responsibility Through Investment Committee took a bayou boat ride courtesy of the Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe.