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Tribe seeks to adapt as climate change alters ancestral home

Summary by Ground News

Raymond Naranjo sings for rain, his voice rising and falling as he softly strikes his rawhide-covered drum. The 99-year-old invites the cloud spirits, rain children, mist, thunder and lightning to join him at Santa Clara Pueblo, where Tewa people have lived for thousands of years on land they call Kha’p’o Owingeh, the Valley of the Wild Roses. “Without water, you don't live,” says Naranjo's son Gilbert, explaining the rain dance song his father, a World War II veteran, has sung for decades — and with increasing urgency as the tribe fights for the survival of its ancestral home.

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The Independent

Tribe seeks to adapt as climate change alters ancestral home

Climate change is taking a toll on Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, home to Tewa-speaking people for thousands of years

2 years ago·London, United Kingdom

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Tribe seeks to adapt as climate change alters ancestral home

Climate change is taking a toll on Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, home to Tewa-speaking people for thousands of years. Drought has made their forests a tinderbox, shrunk

2 years ago·United States

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The Washington Post

Tribe seeks to adapt as climate change alters ancestral home

Climate change is taking a toll on Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, home to Tewa-speaking people for thousands of years

2 years ago

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KRDO

Tribe seeks to adapt as climate change alters ancestral home

By TAMMY WEBBER and MARTHA IRVINE Associated PressSANTA CLARA PUEBLO, NM (AP) — This was a land of dense forests. A creek cascading through ponds in a canyon. A valley of sage and juniper with shady cottonwood galleries and many gardens. For thousands of years, the Tewa people of Kha’p’o Owingeh — Valley of the Wild Roses — have called Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico home. They hunted, gathered firewood and medicinal and ceremonial pla…

2 years ago·Colorado Springs, United States

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