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Tribe seeks to adapt as climate change alters ancestral home

Corn that did not fully mature can sits at the Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. Climate change is taking a toll on the pueblo, which has been home to Tewa-speaking people for thousands of years. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) A butterfly rests on a bush along the Rio Grande River at the Santa Clara Pueblo farmlands in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) An early Santa Clara Pueblo structure sits on the mesa top at the Puye Cliff Dwellings in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. The tribe lived there until drought forced them to move to the Rio Grande Valley about 500 years ago. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) A small crop of chile peppers grow in the gardens of Gilbert Naranjo’s cousin at Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. Climate change is taking a toll on Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, which has been home to Tewa-speaking people for thousands of years. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Norma Naranjo shows bagged chicos, corn kernels dried during a previous season at her home in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make year make chicos – dried kernels used in stews and puddings – from corn grown in neighboring Santa Clara Pueblo. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Farmer Eugene “Hutch” Naranjo boils corn at his home in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make chicos, dried kernels used in stews and puddings. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Three-year-old Antonita, center, helps peel corn at the home of her grandparents Norma and Eugene “Hutch” Naranjo in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make chicos, dried kernels used in stews and puddings. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Corn that did not fully mature can sits at the Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. Climate change is taking a toll on the pueblo, which has been home to Tewa-speaking people for thousands of years. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) A butterfly rests on a bush along the Rio Grande River at the Santa Clara Pueblo farmlands in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) An early Santa Clara Pueblo structure sits on the mesa top at the Puye Cliff Dwellings in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. The tribe lived there until drought forced them to move to the Rio Grande Valley about 500 years ago. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) A small crop of chile peppers grow in the gardens of Gilbert Naranjo’s cousin at Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. Climate change is taking a toll on Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, which has been home to Tewa-speaking people for thousands of years. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Norma Naranjo shows bagged chicos, corn kernels dried during a previous season at her home in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make year make chicos – dried kernels used in stews and puddings – from corn grown in neighboring Santa Clara Pueblo. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Farmer Eugene “Hutch” Naranjo boils corn at his home in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make chicos, dried kernels used in stews and puddings. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Three-year-old Antonita, center, helps peel corn at the home of her grandparents Norma and Eugene “Hutch” Naranjo in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make chicos, dried kernels used in stews and puddings. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Corn that did not fully mature can sits at the Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. Climate change is taking a toll on the pueblo, which has been home to Tewa-speaking people for thousands of years. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) A butterfly rests on a bush along the Rio Grande River at the Santa Clara Pueblo farmlands in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) An early Santa Clara Pueblo structure sits on the mesa top at the Puye Cliff Dwellings in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. The tribe lived there until drought forced them to move to the Rio Grande Valley about 500 years ago. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) A small crop of chile peppers grow in the gardens of Gilbert Naranjo’s cousin at Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. Climate change is taking a toll on Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, which has been home to Tewa-speaking people for thousands of years. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Norma Naranjo shows bagged chicos, corn kernels dried during a previous season at her home in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make year make chicos – dried kernels used in stews and puddings – from corn grown in neighboring Santa Clara Pueblo. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Farmer Eugene “Hutch” Naranjo boils corn at his home in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make chicos, dried kernels used in stews and puddings. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Three-year-old Antonita, center, helps peel corn at the home of her grandparents Norma and Eugene “Hutch” Naranjo in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make chicos, dried kernels used in stews and puddings. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Corn that did not fully mature can sits at the Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. Climate change is taking a toll on the pueblo, which has been home to Tewa-speaking people for thousands of years. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) A butterfly rests on a bush along the Rio Grande River at the Santa Clara Pueblo farmlands in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) A small crop of chile peppers grow in the gardens of Gilbert Naranjo’s cousin at Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. Climate change is taking a toll on Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, which has been home to Tewa-speaking people for thousands of years. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Norma Naranjo shows bagged chicos, corn kernels dried during a previous season at her home in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make year make chicos – dried kernels used in stews and puddings – from corn grown in neighboring Santa Clara Pueblo. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Farmer Eugene “Hutch” Naranjo boils corn at his home in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make chicos, dried kernels used in stews and puddings. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Three-year-old Antonita, center, helps peel corn at the home of her grandparents Norma and Eugene “Hutch” Naranjo in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make chicos, dried kernels used in stews and puddings. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Corn that did not fully mature can sits at the Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. Climate change is taking a toll on the pueblo, which has been home to Tewa-speaking people for thousands of years. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Corn that did not fully mature can sits at the Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. Climate change is taking a toll on the pueblo, which has been home to Tewa-speaking people for thousands of years. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) A butterfly rests on a bush along the Rio Grande River at the Santa Clara Pueblo farmlands in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) A butterfly rests on a bush along the Rio Grande River at the Santa Clara Pueblo farmlands in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) A small crop of chile peppers grow in the gardens of Gilbert Naranjo’s cousin at Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. Climate change is taking a toll on Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, which has been home to Tewa-speaking people for thousands of years. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) A small crop of chile peppers grow in the gardens of Gilbert Naranjo’s cousin at Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. Climate change is taking a toll on Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, which has been home to Tewa-speaking people for thousands of years. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Norma Naranjo shows bagged chicos, corn kernels dried during a previous season at her home in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make year make chicos – dried kernels used in stews and puddings – from corn grown in neighboring Santa Clara Pueblo. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Norma Naranjo shows bagged chicos, corn kernels dried during a previous season at her home in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make year make chicos – dried kernels used in stews and puddings – from corn grown in neighboring Santa Clara Pueblo. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Farmer Eugene “Hutch” Naranjo boils corn at his home in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make chicos, dried kernels used in stews and puddings. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Three-year-old Antonita, center, helps peel corn at the home of her grandparents Norma and Eugene “Hutch” Naranjo in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make chicos, dried kernels used in stews and puddings. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Farmer Eugene “Hutch” Naranjo boils corn at his home in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make chicos, dried kernels used in stews and puddings. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Three-year-old Antonita, center, helps peel corn at the home of her grandparents Norma and Eugene “Hutch” Naranjo in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make chicos, dried kernels used in stews and puddings. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Corn that did not fully mature can sits at the Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. Climate change is taking a toll on the pueblo, which has been home to Tewa-speaking people for thousands of years. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) A butterfly rests on a bush along the Rio Grande River at the Santa Clara Pueblo farmlands in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) A small crop of chile peppers grow in the gardens of Gilbert Naranjo’s cousin at Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. Climate change is taking a toll on Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, which has been home to Tewa-speaking people for thousands of years. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Norma Naranjo shows bagged chicos, corn kernels dried during a previous season at her home in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make year make chicos – dried kernels used in stews and puddings – from corn grown in neighboring Santa Clara Pueblo. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Farmer Eugene “Hutch” Naranjo boils corn at his home in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make chicos, dried kernels used in stews and puddings. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Three-year-old Antonita, center, helps peel corn at the home of her grandparents Norma and Eugene “Hutch” Naranjo in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make chicos, dried kernels used in stews and puddings. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Corn that did not fully mature can sits at the Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. Climate change is taking a toll on the pueblo, which has been home to Tewa-speaking people for thousands of years. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) A butterfly rests on a bush along the Rio Grande River at the Santa Clara Pueblo farmlands in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) An early Santa Clara Pueblo structure sits on the mesa top at the Puye Cliff Dwellings in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. The tribe lived there until drought forced them to move to the Rio Grande Valley about 500 years ago. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) A small crop of chile peppers grow in the gardens of Gilbert Naranjo’s cousin at Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. Climate change is taking a toll on Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, which has been home to Tewa-speaking people for thousands of years. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Norma Naranjo shows bagged chicos, corn kernels dried during a previous season at her home in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make year make chicos – dried kernels used in stews and puddings – from corn grown in neighboring Santa Clara Pueblo. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Farmer Eugene “Hutch” Naranjo boils corn at his home in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make chicos, dried kernels used in stews and puddings. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Three-year-old Antonita, center, helps peel corn at the home of her grandparents Norma and Eugene “Hutch” Naranjo in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make chicos, dried kernels used in stews and puddings. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Corn that did not fully mature can sits at the Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. Climate change is taking a toll on the pueblo, which has been home to Tewa-speaking people for thousands of years. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) A butterfly rests on a bush along the Rio Grande River at the Santa Clara Pueblo farmlands in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) An early Santa Clara Pueblo structure sits on the mesa top at the Puye Cliff Dwellings in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. The tribe lived there until drought forced them to move to the Rio Grande Valley about 500 years ago. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) A small crop of chile peppers grow in the gardens of Gilbert Naranjo’s cousin at Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. Climate change is taking a toll on Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, which has been home to Tewa-speaking people for thousands of years. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Norma Naranjo shows bagged chicos, corn kernels dried during a previous season at her home in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make year make chicos – dried kernels used in stews and puddings – from corn grown in neighboring Santa Clara Pueblo. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Farmer Eugene “Hutch” Naranjo boils corn at his home in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make chicos, dried kernels used in stews and puddings. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Three-year-old Antonita, center, helps peel corn at the home of her grandparents Norma and Eugene “Hutch” Naranjo in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make chicos, dried kernels used in stews and puddings. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Corn that did not fully mature can sits at the Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. Climate change is taking a toll on the pueblo, which has been home to Tewa-speaking people for thousands of years. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) A butterfly rests on a bush along the Rio Grande River at the Santa Clara Pueblo farmlands in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) An early Santa Clara Pueblo structure sits on the mesa top at the Puye Cliff Dwellings in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. The tribe lived there until drought forced them to move to the Rio Grande Valley about 500 years ago. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) A small crop of chile peppers grow in the gardens of Gilbert Naranjo’s cousin at Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. Climate change is taking a toll on Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, which has been home to Tewa-speaking people for thousands of years. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Norma Naranjo shows bagged chicos, corn kernels dried during a previous season at her home in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make year make chicos – dried kernels used in stews and puddings – from corn grown in neighboring Santa Clara Pueblo. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Farmer Eugene “Hutch” Naranjo boils corn at his home in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make chicos, dried kernels used in stews and puddings. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Three-year-old Antonita, center, helps peel corn at the home of her grandparents Norma and Eugene “Hutch” Naranjo in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make chicos, dried kernels used in stews and puddings. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Corn that did not fully mature can sits at the Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. Climate change is taking a toll on the pueblo, which has been home to Tewa-speaking people for thousands of years. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) A butterfly rests on a bush along the Rio Grande River at the Santa Clara Pueblo farmlands in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) An early Santa Clara Pueblo structure sits on the mesa top at the Puye Cliff Dwellings in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. The tribe lived there until drought forced them to move to the Rio Grande Valley about 500 years ago. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) A small crop of chile peppers grow in the gardens of Gilbert Naranjo’s cousin at Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. Climate change is taking a toll on Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, which has been home to Tewa-speaking people for thousands of years. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Norma Naranjo shows bagged chicos, corn kernels dried during a previous season at her home in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make year make chicos – dried kernels used in stews and puddings – from corn grown in neighboring Santa Clara Pueblo. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Farmer Eugene “Hutch” Naranjo boils corn at his home in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make chicos, dried kernels used in stews and puddings. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Three-year-old Antonita, center, helps peel corn at the home of her grandparents Norma and Eugene “Hutch” Naranjo in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make chicos, dried kernels used in stews and puddings. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Corn that did not fully mature can sits at the Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. Climate change is taking a toll on the pueblo, which has been home to Tewa-speaking people for thousands of years. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) A butterfly rests on a bush along the Rio Grande River at the Santa Clara Pueblo farmlands in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) An early Santa Clara Pueblo structure sits on the mesa top at the Puye Cliff Dwellings in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. The tribe lived there until drought forced them to move to the Rio Grande Valley about 500 years ago. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) A small crop of chile peppers grow in the gardens of Gilbert Naranjo’s cousin at Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. Climate change is taking a toll on Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, which has been home to Tewa-speaking people for thousands of years. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Norma Naranjo shows bagged chicos, corn kernels dried during a previous season at her home in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make year make chicos – dried kernels used in stews and puddings – from corn grown in neighboring Santa Clara Pueblo. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Farmer Eugene “Hutch” Naranjo boils corn at his home in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make chicos, dried kernels used in stews and puddings. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Three-year-old Antonita, center, helps peel corn at the home of her grandparents Norma and Eugene “Hutch” Naranjo in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make chicos, dried kernels used in stews and puddings. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Corn that did not fully mature can sits at the Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. Climate change is taking a toll on the pueblo, which has been home to Tewa-speaking people for thousands of years. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) A butterfly rests on a bush along the Rio Grande River at the Santa Clara Pueblo farmlands in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) An early Santa Clara Pueblo structure sits on the mesa top at the Puye Cliff Dwellings in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. The tribe lived there until drought forced them to move to the Rio Grande Valley about 500 years ago. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) A small crop of chile peppers grow in the gardens of Gilbert Naranjo’s cousin at Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. Climate change is taking a toll on Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, which has been home to Tewa-speaking people for thousands of years. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Norma Naranjo shows bagged chicos, corn kernels dried during a previous season at her home in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make year make chicos – dried kernels used in stews and puddings – from corn grown in neighboring Santa Clara Pueblo. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Farmer Eugene “Hutch” Naranjo boils corn at his home in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make chicos, dried kernels used in stews and puddings. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Three-year-old Antonita, center, helps peel corn at the home of her grandparents Norma and Eugene “Hutch” Naranjo in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make chicos, dried kernels used in stews and puddings. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Corn that did not fully mature can sits at the Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. Climate change is taking a toll on the pueblo, which has been home to Tewa-speaking people for thousands of years. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) A butterfly rests on a bush along the Rio Grande River at the Santa Clara Pueblo farmlands in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) An early Santa Clara Pueblo structure sits on the mesa top at the Puye Cliff Dwellings in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. The tribe lived there until drought forced them to move to the Rio Grande Valley about 500 years ago. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) A small crop of chile peppers grow in the gardens of Gilbert Naranjo’s cousin at Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. Climate change is taking a toll on Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, which has been home to Tewa-speaking people for thousands of years. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Norma Naranjo shows bagged chicos, corn kernels dried during a previous season at her home in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make year make chicos – dried kernels used in stews and puddings – from corn grown in neighboring Santa Clara Pueblo. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Farmer Eugene “Hutch” Naranjo boils corn at his home in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make chicos, dried kernels used in stews and puddings. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Three-year-old Antonita, center, helps peel corn at the home of her grandparents Norma and Eugene “Hutch” Naranjo in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make chicos, dried kernels used in stews and puddings. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Corn that did not fully mature can sits at the Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. Climate change is taking a toll on the pueblo, which has been home to Tewa-speaking people for thousands of years. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) A butterfly rests on a bush along the Rio Grande River at the Santa Clara Pueblo farmlands in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) An early Santa Clara Pueblo structure sits on the mesa top at the Puye Cliff Dwellings in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. The tribe lived there until drought forced them to move to the Rio Grande Valley about 500 years ago. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) A small crop of chile peppers grow in the gardens of Gilbert Naranjo’s cousin at Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. Climate change is taking a toll on Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, which has been home to Tewa-speaking people for thousands of years. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Norma Naranjo shows bagged chicos, corn kernels dried during a previous season at her home in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make year make chicos – dried kernels used in stews and puddings – from corn grown in neighboring Santa Clara Pueblo. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Farmer Eugene “Hutch” Naranjo boils corn at his home in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make chicos, dried kernels used in stews and puddings. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Three-year-old Antonita, center, helps peel corn at the home of her grandparents Norma and Eugene “Hutch” Naranjo in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make chicos, dried kernels used in stews and puddings. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Corn that did not fully mature can sits at the Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. Climate change is taking a toll on the pueblo, which has been home to Tewa-speaking people for thousands of years. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Corn that did not fully mature can sits at the Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. Climate change is taking a toll on the pueblo, which has been home to Tewa-speaking people for thousands of years. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) A butterfly rests on a bush along the Rio Grande River at the Santa Clara Pueblo farmlands in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) A butterfly rests on a bush along the Rio Grande River at the Santa Clara Pueblo farmlands in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) An early Santa Clara Pueblo structure sits on the mesa top at the Puye Cliff Dwellings in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. The tribe lived there until drought forced them to move to the Rio Grande Valley about 500 years ago. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) An early Santa Clara Pueblo structure sits on the mesa top at the Puye Cliff Dwellings in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. The tribe lived there until drought forced them to move to the Rio Grande Valley about 500 years ago. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) A small crop of chile peppers grow in the gardens of Gilbert Naranjo’s cousin at Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. Climate change is taking a toll on Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, which has been home to Tewa-speaking people for thousands of years. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) A small crop of chile peppers grow in the gardens of Gilbert Naranjo’s cousin at Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. Climate change is taking a toll on Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, which has been home to Tewa-speaking people for thousands of years. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Norma Naranjo shows bagged chicos, corn kernels dried during a previous season at her home in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make year make chicos – dried kernels used in stews and puddings – from corn grown in neighboring Santa Clara Pueblo. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Norma Naranjo shows bagged chicos, corn kernels dried during a previous season at her home in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make year make chicos – dried kernels used in stews and puddings – from corn grown in neighboring Santa Clara Pueblo. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Farmer Eugene “Hutch” Naranjo boils corn at his home in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make chicos, dried kernels used in stews and puddings. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Farmer Eugene “Hutch” Naranjo boils corn at his home in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make chicos, dried kernels used in stews and puddings. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Three-year-old Antonita, center, helps peel corn at the home of her grandparents Norma and Eugene “Hutch” Naranjo in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make chicos, dried kernels used in stews and puddings. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Three-year-old Antonita, center, helps peel corn at the home of her grandparents Norma and Eugene “Hutch” Naranjo in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make chicos, dried kernels used in stews and puddings. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Birds fly near the Puye Cliff Dwellings in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. The cliff dwellings were home to the ancestors of today's Santa Clara Pueblo people until drought forced them to move to the Rio Grande Valley about 500 years ago. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) A juvenile Steller's jay sits in a burned branch at the Carson National Forest in northern New Mexico, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022. Large areas of the northernmost New Mexico national forest were ravaged by the Hermit's Peak and Calf Canyon wildfires in April 2022. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Burned pine trees stand at the Santa Clara Canyon in northern New Mexico, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022. The canyon, part of Santa Clara Pueblo, remains closed to the public while its habitat is restored after devastating wildfires and flash floods. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Daniel Denipah, Santa Clara Pueblo forestry director, shows the area where a pond used to be at the Santa Clara Canyon in northern New Mexico, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022. The canyon, part of Santa Clara Pueblo, is closed to the public while its habitat is restored after devastating wildfires and flash floods. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) A coyote strolls through the Santa Clara Canyon in northern New Mexico, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022. The canyon, part of Santa Clara Pueblo, remains closed to the public while its habitat is restored after devastating wildfires and flash floods. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Tammy Parsons, nursery manager with New Mexico State University's John T. Harrington Forestry Research Center, holds Douglas fir seedlings in Mora, New Mexico, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022. The center grows seedlings that are planted at Santa Clara Pueblo and other areas affected by wildfires. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Gilbert Naranjo poses for a photo at his home on Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. “Fields just aren’t producing like they used to,” says Naranjo, who's in charge of plowing farmers' fields. He says some people now buy starter plants because it can be difficult to get seeds to germinate. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Farmer Eugene “Hutch” Naranjo checks if the corn is ready to harvest at the Santa Clara Pueblo farmlands in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. Climate change is taking a toll on the pueblo, which has been home to Tewa-speaking people for thousands of years. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Eugene “Hutch” Naranjo places corn to dry at his home in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make chicos, dried kernels used in stews and puddings, from corn grown in neighboring Santa Clara Pueblo. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Artist Sharon Naranjo Garcia builds a pot with clay at her home in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, on Monday, Sept. 12, 2022. She is from the nearby Santa Clara Pueblo, where she learned to make the pueblo's distinctive pottery from older generations in her family. She and other artists say wildfires and flash floods, worsened by climate change, have made it more difficult to gather clay from the foothills of the pueblo’s canyon and wood used to fire the pottery. (AP Photo/Martha Irvine) Norma Naranjo fries sopapillas to feed her friends and relatives at her home in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Naranjo says their grandfathers used to tell them not to plant until the snow disappeared from the peaks. As the climate changes, she says snowfall is increasingly rare. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Farmer Eugene “Hutch” Naranjo boils corn at his home in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make chicos, dried kernels used in stews and puddings. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Farmer Eugene “Hutch” Naranjo boils corn at his home in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make chicos, dried kernels used in stews and puddings. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Three-year-old Antonita, center, helps peel corn at the home of her grandparents Norma and Eugene “Hutch” Naranjo in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make chicos, dried kernels used in stews and puddings. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Norma Naranjo, left, is helped by relatives and friends to peel corn at her home in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly called San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make chicos, dried kernels used in stews and puddings. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Nine-year-old Amalia Valdez, right, helps her grandmother Norma, center, peel corn at Naranjo's home in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly named San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make chicos, dried kernels used in stews and puddings. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Corn sits on a drying rack at the home of Norma and Eugene “Hutch” Naranjo in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly known as San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make chicos, dried kernels used in stews and puddings. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Lawrence Sisneros collects dried corn from a rack at the home of Norma and Eugene “Hutch” Naranjo in Ohkay Owingeh, formerly called San Juan Pueblo, in northern New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. Friends and relatives of the Naranjos gather every year to make chicos, dried kernels used in stews and puddings, from corn grown at nearby Santa Clara Pueblo. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Burned pine trees stand in the Carson National Forest in northern New Mexico, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022. Large areas of the northernmost New Mexico national forest were ravaged by the Hermit's Peak and Calf Canyon wildfires in April 2022. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Contractors work on waterway restoration in Santa Clara Canyon in northern New Mexico, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022. The canyon, part of Santa Clara Pueblo, remains closed to the public while its habitat is being restored after devastating wildfires and flash floods. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) FILE - Firefighter Brandon DeLong, left, and Andrew Buus conduct a burnout operation while battling the Las Conchas fire near Los Alamos, N.M., July 1, 2011. Three wildfires have burned more than 80% of forested land on the Santa Clara Pueblo. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File) Raymond Naranjo, 99, poses for a photo outside his home in Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. Pueblo elders say ancestral knowledge is key for future generations to develop a strong cultural and spiritual connection to this ancient place to help preserve their way of life. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) Farmer Eugene “Hutch” Naranjo harvests corn at his ancestral family farm on the Santa Clara Pueblo in northern New Mexico, Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. Climate change is taking a toll on the community, which has been home to Tewa-speaking people for thousands of years. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)