Luster and Fazzio are members of the United Houma Nation. "There are many uses for them… in the head of the gar there's a bone that can actually be used to put on a spear point," she said.

As a record-breaking hurricane headed toward the United Houma Nation’s ancestral and current homeland, Melanie Liner was in the eye of an existential crisis. It was August 2021, on the 16th ...