Nationwide, nearly 17,000 homes on tribal lands don’t have electricity. A majority of them are spread across the Navajo Nation, where climate change is making it harder for families to keep cool. In the first installment of this two-part story, the Mountain West News Bureau’s Kaleb Roedel visited the reservation to learn how Navajo families are coping without power.

Our Living Lands is a five-minute, weekly segment focused on climate change’s impact on Indigenous communities across the country. The program highlights the wide-ranging impact of climate change – and shares potential solutions for addressing these problems.

Our Living Lands is a collaboration of the Mountain West News Bureau, Koahnic Broadcast Corporation, and Native Public Media.