The Native American Cajun community of Isle de Jean Charles, Louisiana, has lived on their four-mile island in the bayous for 170 years. Lately, however, coastal erosion and rising sea levels have contributed to the shrinking of their home. What does this vanishing land mean for their farming and fishing ways of living? As children play around hurricane-devastated former homes, we hear the natives’ pain and uncertainty—to leave or to stay? “The White Man pushed us to the end of the Earth,” writes Chief Albert Naquin. “Now Mother Nature wants to push us back.”  DS