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Responding to Climate Change

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7.12.24 – Like many others, Theresa Pasqual, director of the Tribal Historic Preservation Office at the Pueblo of Acoma, knows that long before human-caused climate change started warming and drying the Southwest, survival in this arid landscape required care and connection. In this special segment of Our Land, Pasqual also talks about the challenges tribes…

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Healing and Adapting with the Land

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7.12.24 – In April 2022, Paula Garcia watched the Hermits Peak Calf-Canyon Fire in northern New Mexico consume more than 341,000 acres — including many of her family’s lands. And as the executive director of the New Mexico Acequia Association, she has worked tirelessly to help the acequia community recover from continued post-wildfire flooding. In…

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