Last Stand on the Island
- 2014
- 11m
![Last Stand on the Island is a story about the last generations of French-speaking Native Americans who live on an island thatÂ’s disappearing into the Gulf of Mexico. They are the Isle Jean Charles Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw, descendants of French settlers who took Indian wives and moved to a twenty-four square mile strip of marshland in the mid-1800s. Once a self-sufficient community of 350 people, who grew their own food, raised cattle, fished, shrimped and hunted, since exploration by oil companies began in the 1930s, Isle Jean Charles has washed away to a quarter-mile wide and a half-mile long, its thick forests, gardens and wildlife long gone. After five hurricanes in the last six years, twenty-four families remain, stubbornly refusing to abandon their ancestral land.](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjAyNzQ3OTk5Ml5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNTMxNzM4Ng@@._V1_QL75_UX500_CR0,47,500,281_.jpg)
LAST STAND ON THE ISLAND (USA, in production, 2011-2014) Deep in the bayous of South Louisiana, Edison Dardar, Sr. is arming himself against anyone who tries to move him off the island he lo... Read allLAST STAND ON THE ISLAND (USA, in production, 2011-2014) Deep in the bayous of South Louisiana, Edison Dardar, Sr. is arming himself against anyone who tries to move him off the island he loves, a narrow ridge of marsh that is vanishing into the Gulf of Mexico. As Chief of the Bi... Read allLAST STAND ON THE ISLAND (USA, in production, 2011-2014) Deep in the bayous of South Louisiana, Edison Dardar, Sr. is arming himself against anyone who tries to move him off the island he loves, a narrow ridge of marsh that is vanishing into the Gulf of Mexico. As Chief of the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw tribe, Albert Naquin's mission is to find a safe place on the main... Read all