Santa Clara Pueblo
As Climate Changes, Santa Clara Strives To Become Resilient To Worsening Fires, Floods: Members of the Santa Clara Pueblo Youth Conservation Corps help preserve ancestral Tewa buildings atop a mesa that overlooks the flood-scoured Santa Clara Creek bed. Pueblo residents’ ancestors used to hike miles down the mesa for water, said pueblo Gov. Michael Chavarria. ‘We’re not financially wealthy. We’re wealthy with our culture, language and traditions.’ Margaret Wright/The New Mexican

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