verdin: the selevel eps rising. weather keeps getting more extreme. and now, a yealater, bp cleanup workers are getting sick. friloux: we're going to see people getting sick, especially people who worked directly in the oil. it will be our native american people who will be lost. the whole generation that cleaned up the gulf that could be gone in ten years. and not to mention drug and alcohol abuse and also suicides. because they're saying people are depressed. you know, we've been treated bad throughout the years, but this, to me, could destroy our tribe, our tribal people, or our indian people, as a whole. verdin: since losing my father and kraz, i can see how the illness of our land and waters breeds illness on our people. but our love ties us to this place and makes us feel responsible to care for it. it was by instinct i first picked up a camera and started documenting my family. and now these images and stories bear witness to a disappearing louisiana. woman: wait, wait, let her make a wish. let her make the wish. (cheering and applause) i somet