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
Heyes, Scott A. 2011. Cracks in the knowledge: sea ice terms in Kangiqsualujjuaq, Nunavik. The Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe Canadien 55(1): 69–90.

Categories: Keywords:
sea ice, Inuit knowledge, knowledge transmission, generations, Inuktitut, tribe, indigenous

2011 Canada, Arctic Link
Brubaker MY, Bell JN, Berner JE, Warren JA (2011) Climate change health assessment: A novel approach for Alaska Native communities. Int J Circumpol Heal 70: 266-273.

Categories: community-scale assessment, observation-based data, climate health impacts, Adaptation, tribe, indigenous

2011 Alaska, Arctic Link
Hovelsrud, Grete, Krupnik, Igor, and Jeremy L. White. 2011. Human-based observing systems. In Understanding Earth’s Polar Challenges. International Polar Year, 2007–2008. Krupnik, Igor, Allison, Ian, Bell, Robin, Cutler, Paul, Hik, David, Lopéz-Martinéz, Jeronimo, Rachold, Volker, Summerheyes, Colin, and Eduard Sarukhanian, eds. Edmonton: Canadian Circumpolar Institute, pp. 435-456.

Categories: Antarctic, Arctic, International Polar Year, tribe, indigenous

2011 Arctic Link
Brubaker, M. Y., J. N. Bell, J. E. Berner, and J. A. Warren, 2011: Climate change health assessment: A novel approach for Alaska Native communities. International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 70, doi:10.3402/ijch.v70i3.17820.↩

Categories: indigenous, Arctic, Climate change, Alaska Natives, health assessment, tribe

2011 Alaska. Arctic Link
ITEP, 2011: Tribal Profiles. Alaska - Athabascan Region. Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals. www4.nau.edu/tribalclimatechange/tribes/ak_athabascan.asp↩

Categories: Alaska, Athabascan Region, tribe, indigenous

2011 Alaska, Arctic
Tribal Water Working Group (University of New Mexico), 2012: Water in Indian Country:

Categories: Climate change, water rights, tribe, indigenous

2012
Buckley, G.L. and A. Allen. 2011. Stories about mountaintop removal in the Appalachian coalfields. In M. Morrone and G.L. Buckley (eds.) Mountains of injustice: social and environmental justice in Appalachia. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. Pp. 161-180.

Categories: Appalachia, Mountaintop removal

2011
Kaufman, L., 2011: Seeing trends, coalition works to help a river adapt. The New York Times. URL ↩

Categories: Adaptation, salmon, fish health, Nisqually River, snowpack, flooding, stream flow

2011 Northwest Link
Walker, R., 2012: Haida Gwaii Quake brings home the importance of Quileute relocation legislation. Indian Country Today Media Network.com. URL ↩

Categories: Relocation, Quileute, tribe, indigenous

2012 Northwest Link
Burkett M(2011) The nation ex-situ: on climate change, deterritorialized nationhood, and the post-climate era. Clim Law 2(3):345–374

Categories: Climate-induced displacement, Climate change, climate migration, international law

2011 International
Klopotek, Brian. 2011. Recognition Odysseys: Indigeneity, Race, and Federal Tribal Recognition Policy in Three Louisiana Indian Communities. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Categories: Federal Recognition, Louisiana, Tunica-Biloxi, Jena Choctaws, Clifton-Choctaws, tribe, indigenous

2011 Southeast
Wang, M., and J. E. Overland, 2012: A sea ice free summer Arctic within 30 years: An update from CMIP5 models.Geophysical Research Letters, 39, L18501, doi:10.1029/2012GL052868. URL ↩

Categories: sea ice, Arctic

2012 Arctic
Couvillion, Brady A., John A. Barras, Gregory D. Steyer, William Sleavin, Michelle Fischer, Holly Beck, Nadine Trahan, Brad Griffin, and David Heckman. 2011 Land Area Change in Coastal Louisiana from 1932 to 2010: U.S. Geological Survey. Scientific Investigations Map 3164. http://pubs.usgs.gov/sim/3164/downloads/SIM3164_Pamphlet.pdf

Categories: land area change

2011 Southeast Link
Krakoff, S. 2011. Radical Adaptation, Justice, and American Indian Nations. Environmental Justice 4(4): 207-212.

Categories: Adaptation, historical removal from homelands, Cherokee Nation, environmental change, tribe, indigenous

2011 Southwest Link
WATER IN INDIAN COUNTRY: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES A REPORT PREPARED BY
THE TRIBAL WATER WORKING GROUP

Categories: water quality, water quantity, ecosystems, Fisheries, Climate change, tribal water rights, tribe, indigenous

2012 Southwest, United States Link
Crate, Susan A. 2011. Climate and Culture: Anthropology in the Era of Contemporary Climate Change. Annual Review of Anthropology 40:173–194.

Categories: Climate change, perceptions, adaptation and resilience, research approaches, anthropological role(s), climate ethnography, tribe, indigenous

2011 Global Link
Kukarenko, N. 2011. Climate change effects on human health in a gender perspective: some trends in Arctic research. Global Health Action. 4: 7913.

Categories: Climate change effects, Human Health, gender, Arctic, tribe, indigenous

2011 Arctic
Willox, A. C. 2012. "Climate Change as the Work of Mourning." Ethics & the Environment 17(2): 137-164.

Categories: mourning, vulnerability

2012 Link
DOE, 2011: Tribal Energy Program: Financial Assistance and Project Management. 49 pp., U.S. Department of Energy. URL ↩

Categories: Tribal energy program, tribe, indigenous

2011 United States
Mack, M. C., S. M. Bret-Harte, T. N. Hollingsworth, R. R. Jandt, E. A. G. Schuur, G. R. Shaver, and D. L. Verbyla, 2011:Carbon loss from an unprecedented Arctic tundra wildfire. Nature, 475, 489-492, doi:10.1038/nature10283. URL ↩

Categories: Climate science Earth science Ecology Environmental science

2011 Arctic Link
Yazzie, D. H., Chee, C., Darden, S. A., Gleason, I., Denetdale, J. N. (2012) The Impact Of The Navajo-Hopi Land Settlement Act Of 1974 P.L. 93-531 et al. Public Hearing Report: July 2012.

Categories: Navajo-Hopi Land Settlement Act, Forced relocation, Impacts of forced relocation, human rights

2012 Southwest
Donatuto, J., T.A. Satterfield, and R. Gregory. 2011. Poisoning the body to nourish the soul: Prioritizing health risks and impacts in a Native American community. Health, Risk, and Society (13)2: 103–127.

Categories: Native American, risk, Risk Assessment, seafood, Contamination, mental models, community health, cultural health, tribe, indigenous

2011 Northwest Link
Mahoney, M. (2011) This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land: An Historical Narrative of an Intergenerational Controversy over Public Use Management of the San Francisco Peaks. M.S. Thesis, Arizona State University, 103p.

Categories: Sustainability, Modern History, Environmental Studies, Intergenerational equity, Land use policy, Law, Native American studies, Particapatory mechanisms, Reclaimed wastewater, tribe, indigenous

2011 Southwest Link
Alexander C., Bynum N., Johnson E., King U., Mustonen T., Neofotis P., Oettlé N., Rosenzweig C., Sakakibara C., Shadrin V., Vicarelli M., Waterhouse J. and Weeks B. (2011) Linking Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge of Climate Change. BioScience, Vol. 61 no.6, p. 477-484.

Categories: Climate change, observed impacts, indigenous knowledge, assessment, temperature change, tribe, indigenous

2011 Global Link
Downing, A., & Cuerrier, A. (2011). A synthesis of the impacts of climate change on the First Nations and Inuit of Canada. Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge, 10(1), 57-70.

Categories: Climate change, Food Security, Cultural activity, Malaysia Borneo, tribe, indigenous

2011 Canada
McNeeley SM, Shulski MD (2011) Anatomy of a closing window: vulnerability to changing seasonality in Interior Alaska. Global Environ Chang 21:464–473

Categories: Climate change, vulnerability, Sensitivity, Adaptation, Multiple stressors, Indigenous observations and understanding of climate, tribe, indigenous

2011 Alaska, Arctic
Alvord, C. 2011. Overview of the NIDIS Four Corners Pilot Activities: National Integrated Drought Information System, Volume 2, Issue 1. Retrieved November 18, 2011, from http://www.drought.gov/imageserver/NIDIS/newsletter/NIDIS_Newsletter_Winter_2011.pdf

Categories: Drought

2011 Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin, Alabama Link
Earle, Lynda, 2011: Traditional Aboriginal Diets and Health. National Collaborating Centre for Aborignal Health.

Categories: Traditional foods, Indigenous health, Canada, tribe, indigenous

2011 Canada Link
Miller, David W. 2011 The Taking of American Indian Lands in the Southeast: A History of Territorial Cessions and Forced Relocations, 1607-1840. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company Inc.

Categories: Historical relocations, Southeast, tribe, indigenous

2011 Southeast
Aporta, Claudio, Taylor, Fraser D.R., and Gita J. Laidler. 2011. Geographies of Inuit sea ice use: Introduction. The Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe Canadien 55(1):1–5.

Categories: Sea ice reduction, Inuit communities, tribe, indigenous

2011 Canada, Arctic Link