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SCOTUS water rights decision makes it hard to get relief from heat waves on Navajo Nation

Here & Now‘s Celeste Headlee talks with Nikki Cooley, the co-manager of climate change programs at the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals, which is a part of Northern Arizona University, about how extreme heat and climate change is affecting Indigenous people. Cooley is a citizen of the Diné (Navajo) Nation.

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