Micah Masten climbs the 15-foot seawall separating the Pacific Ocean from the plot of land where he lives on May 14 at the Quinault reservation in Taholah, Wash. Facing increased flooding from a ...

The Quinault Indian Nation owns it, a group of Native American people, originally called kʷínayɬ, who had lived on these reservation lands since 1856 when they signed the Quinault Treaty.