Publications

Tribal leaders, scholars and others working with tribes on climate change issues are increasingly engaged in bringing tribal voices to academic literature, agency climate reports, and other publications to demonstrate the impacts of climate change on indigenous communities in the United States, and the measures tribes across the country are taking to address climate change. Abstracts and materials provided by the publications are included in the descriptions.

Publication Year Geography Website
Bartrop, Paul R. 2007 Episodes from the Genocide of the Native Americans: A Review Essay. Genocide Studies and Prevention. 2(2): 183–190.

Categories: Historical Displacement, Genocide, Native Americans, tribe, indigenous

2007 United States Link
Trainor, S. F., F. S. Chaplin III, H. P. Huntington, D. C. Natcher, and G. Kofinas. 2007. Artic Climate Impacts: Environmental Injustice in Canada and the United States. Local Environment 12(6): 627-643.

Categories: Climate change, Political and industrial context of successful adaptation, Global contexts, Canada, United States, Arctic, tribe, indigenous

2007 Arctic, Canada, United States, Alaska Link
USACE. Alaska Village Erosion Technical Assistance Program. An Examination of Erosion Issues in the Communities of Bethel, Dillingham, Kaktovik, Kivalina, Newtok, Shishmaref, and Unalakleet. 2006.

Categories: Technical Assistance Program, Alaska Villages, Erosion, Alaska, Bethel, Dillingham, Kaktovik, Kivalina, Newtok, Shishmaref, Unalakleet, tribe, indigenous

2006 Alaska Link
Bureau of Indian Affairs (2007) Artman to Inspect Fire Damage on La Jolla and Rincon Reservations; Will Meet with Tribal, Federal and State Officials on Relief Efforts: Department of Interior Media Advisory.

Categories: tribe, indigenous

2007 La Jolla Reservation, Rincon Reservation, California Link
Tsosie, R. 2007. Indigenous People and Environmental Justice: The Impact of Climate Change, University of Colorado Law Review, Vol. 78, p. 1625-1677.

Categories: Climate change, Environment, tribe, indigenous, Environmental Justice

2007 Global Link
Muir, J.D., (1911) My First Summer in the Sierra. Copyright 2008, Digireads.com, 120 p. 2008
City of San Diego (2007) After Action Report- October 2007 Wildfires: City of San Diego Response Team, 89p. 2007 Link
Andre Alestine, Karst, Amanda, and Nancy J. Turner. 2006. Arctic and Subarctic Plants. In Handbook of North American Indians. Vol. 3. Environment, Origins, and Population. D.H. Ubelaker, ed. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, pp. 222–235.

Categories: Arctic, Subarctic, Plants

2006 Arctic, Subarctic
Newcomb, S. T., 2008: Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery. Fulcrum Publishing, 216 pp. URL ↩

Categories: U.S. federal Indian law, Indian policy, cognitive theory, Race relations, Religion, tribe, indigenous

2008 United States
Frumhoff PC, McCarthy JJ, Melillo JM, Moser SC, and Wuebbles DJ, 2007: Confronting Climate Change in the U.S. Northeast: Science, Impacts, and Solutions. Synthesis report of the Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment (NECIA). Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, MA.

Categories: Climate change, Northeast, Coastal Impacts, marine impacts, forests impacts, Agricultural Impacts, Winter recreation, Human Health, Impact Assessment

2007 Northeast Link
Austin, Diane. 2006 Cultural Exploitation, Land Loss and Hurricanes: A Recipe for Disaster. American Anthropologist 108(4):671-691.

Categories: Louisiana, petroleum development and extraction, environmental and community degradation

2006 Southeast Link
Pfeiffer J, Voeks R (2008) Biological invasions and biocultural diversity: linking ecological and cultural systems. Environ Conserv 35:281–293. doi:10.1017/S0376892908005146

Categories: Alien species, biocultural diversity, biological invasions, cultural diversity, diaspora, exotic species, indigenous, introduced species, Invasive Species, traditions, Weeds

2008
Gorin, T., and Pisor, K., (2007) California’s Residential Electricity Consumption. Prices, and Bills, 1980-2005. 2007 Link
De Wet, Chris, ed. 2006 Development-induced Displacement: Problems, Policies and People. New York: Berghahn Books.

Categories: Development-induced displacement, Refugee & Migration Studies, Development Studies, Theory & Methodology in Anthropology, tribe, indigenous

2006 Global Link
Piguet, Etienne. 2008 Climate Change and Forced Migration. New Issues in Refugee Research. Research 2008 Link
Hanna, J., 2007: Native Communities and Climate Change: Protecting Tribal Resources as Part of National Climate Policy. 69 pp., Natural Resources Law Center, University of Colorado School of Law, Boulder, Colorado. URL

Categories: Climate change, Tribal resources, tribe, indigenous

2007 United States Link
Ford, James D., Smit, Barry, and Johanna Wandel. 2006. Vulnerability to climate change in the Arctic: A case study from Arctic Bay, Canada. Global Environmental Change 16(2):145–160.

Categories: vulnerability, Adaptation, adaptive capacity, Arctic, Inuit, Climate change, environmental change, Communities, Climatic risks, tribe, indigenous

2006 Arctic, Canada
Reed, A. 2008. Class inequality, liberal bad faith, and neoliberalism: the true disaster of Katrina. In N. Gunewardena and M. Schuller (eds.) Capitalizing on catastrophe: neoliberal strategies in disaster reconstruction. Lanham, MD: Altamira Press. Pp. 147-154.

Categories: Inequality, Katrina, Neoliberalism, Disasters

2008 Southeast
Hanna, Jonathan. 2007 Native Communities and Climate Change: Legal and Policy Approaches to Protect Tribal Legal Rights. Natural Resources Law Center, Boulder, CO.

Categories: Climate change, environmental policy, Federal Government, Law, Natural Resources, policy, State Government, Tribal Governments, tribe, indigenous

2007 United States Link
Gearheard, S., W. Matumeak, I. Angutikjuaq, J. Maslanik, H.P. Huntington, J. Leavitt, D. Matumeak Kagak, G. Tigullaraq, and R.G. Barry. 2006. “It’s Not That Simple”: A Collaborative Comparison of Sea Ice Environments, Their Uses, Observed Changes, and Adaptations in Barrow, Alaska, USA, and Clyde River, Nunavut, Canada. Ambio 35(4): 203–211.

Categories: Adaptation, Arctic, Climate, Conservation, Natural Resources, sea ice, Inuits, Seasons, tribe, indigenous

2006 Arctic
Roth, George. 2008. Recognition. In Indians in Contemporary Society. Ed. Garrick A. Bailey. Handbook of North American Indians. Vol. 2. William C. Sturtevant, general editor, pp. 113–128. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution.

Categories: Federal Recognition, tribe, indigenous

2008 United States
Houde, N. (2007). The six faces of traditional ecological knowledge: challenges and opportunities for Canadian co-management arrangements. Ecology and Society, 12(2), 34.

Categories: Canada, co-management, co-management arrangement, First Nation, Natural Resource Management, traditional ecological knowledge, tribe, indigenous

2007 Canada
Guyot, M., C. Dickson, C. Paci, C. Furgal, and H. M. Chan, 2006: A study of two northern peoples and local effects of climate change on traditional food security. International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 65, 403-415, doi:10.3402/ijch.v65i5.18135. URL

Categories: Traditional foods, tribe, indigenous

2006 Arctic
Ryan, M. G., S. R. Archer, R. Birdsey, C. Dahm, L. Heath, J. Hicke, D. Hollinger, T. Huxman, G. Okin, R. Oren, J. Randerson, and W. Schlesinger, 2008: Ch. 3: Land Resources. The Effects of Climate Change on Agriculture, Land Resources, Water Resources, and Biodiversity.A Report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research, P. Backlund et al., Ed., U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 75-120. URL ↩

Categories: Climate change, Land resources, Agriculture, Water Resources, Biodiversity

2008 United States
Indian Health Services (2007) Public Law 86-121 Annual Report for 2007. Sanitation Facilities Construction Program, Public Health Service, 50p. Available at http://www.ihs.gov/dsfc/documents/SFCAnnualReport2007.pdf .

Categories: tribe, indigenous

2007 Link
Henkel, K. E., Dovidio, J. F., & Gaertner, S. L. (2006). Institutional discrimination, individual racism, and Hurricane Katrina. Analyses of social issues and public policy, 6(1), 99-124.

Categories: Institutional discrimination, individual racism, Hurricane Katrina

2006 Southeast Link
Sakakibara, C. (2008). “Our Home Is Drowning”: Iñupiat Storytelling And Climate Change In Point Hope, Alaska”. Geographical Review, 98(4), 456-475.

Categories: Alaska, Climate change, coastal erosion, Point Hope, storytelling, tribe, indigenous

2008 Alaska
IPCC, 2007: Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. S. Solomon, D. Qin, M. Manning, Z. Chen, M. Marquis, K.B. Averyt, M. Tignor, and H.L. Miller, Eds. Cambridge University Press, 996 pp. URL

Categories: Climate change, Science

2007 International
Kuenzi, A.M., (2006) Treatment Effects and Understory Plant community Response on the Rodeo-Chediski Fire, Arizona. M.S. Thesis, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, 87p.

Categories: Rodeo-Chediski Fire, White Mountain Apache Tribal lands (WMAT), Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests (A-S), pre-fire treatment, fire severity, tribe, indigenous

2006
Sarche, M. and Spicer P., (2008) Poverty and Health Disparities for American Indian and Alaska Native Children: Current Knowledge and Future Prospects. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1136: p. 126-136.

Categories: poverty, health disparities, children, American Indian, Alaska Native, tribe, indigenous

2008 United States Link