Climatelore [climatelore, a program of southwest folklife alliance (SFA) in partnership with tohono o?odham young voices podcast (tucson, AZ) and LA semilla food center (anthony, NM), aims to…

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $149,698 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to the Southwest Folklife Alliance Inc. (doing business as Tucson Meet Yourself) for the CLIMATELORE project. This 18-month project, running from February 2024 to July 2025, aims to document the climate-related impacts on folk, traditional, and indigenous communities in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands region. The project will collect oral histories from members of the Tohono O'odham Nation in Arizona and residents of La Semilla Food Center in New Mexico to highlight practices of mitigation and adaptation within these vulnerable communities. The CLIMATELORE project seeks to preserve cultural heritage and traditional knowledge threatened by climate change, including impacts on livelihoods, cultural practices, and access to sacred sites. The Southwest Folklife Alliance Inc. is partnering with the Tohono O'odham Young Voices Podcast and La Semilla Food Center to carry out the documentation work.

Climatelore [climatelore, a program of southwest folklife alliance (SFA) in partnership with tohono o?odham young voices podcast (tucson, AZ) and LA semilla food center (anthony, NM), aims to advance cultural and community climate resilience in the US-mexico borderlands by documenting climate-related impacts on folk, traditional, and indigenous communities. The project seeks to highlight practices of mitigation and adaptation within these communities, which are vulnerable to losing livelihoods, cultural practices, and spiritual sites due to heat, prolonged drought, invasive species, climate migration and other threats to food security, water availability, plant and animal species, and access to sacred sites, traditional knowledge, and traditional homelands. Documentation will take the form of oral histories to be collected by partner organizations within two specific communities: 1) members of the tohono o?odham nation, living both on and off reservation land in arizona; and 2) residents of PA]