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 Sort ascending Geography Website
Cochran, P., O. H. Huntington, C. Pungowiyi, S. Tom, S. F. Chapin, III, H. P. Huntington, N. G. Maynard, and S. F. Trainor, 2013: Indigenous frameworks for observing and responding to climate change in Alaska. Climatic Change, 120, 557-567, doi:10.1007/s10584-013-0735-2.↩

Categories: traditional knowledges, tribe, indigenous

2013 Alaska Link
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (2013) Assessment of American Indian
Housing Needs and Programs: Final Report. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research, Washington DC.

Categories: Housing, tribe, indigenous

2013 United States Link
Voggesser G, Lynn K, Daigle J, Lake FK, Ranco D (2013) Cultural Impacts to Tribes from Climate Change Influences on Forests. Climatic Change. DOI # 10.1007/s10584-013-0733-4.

Categories: Traditional Knowledge, Forest resources, Adaptation, Management, tribe, indigenous

2013 United States Link
Cozzetto, K, Chief, K., Dittmer, K., Brubaker, M., Gough, R., Souza, K., Ettawageshik, F., Wotkyns, S., Opitz-Stapleton, S., Duren, S., Chavan, P., 2013: Climate change impacts on the water resources of American Indians and Alaska Natives in the US. Climatic Change, 120(3 special issue): 569-584. DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-0852-y

Categories: water rights, tribal sovereignty, tribe, indigenous

2013 United States Link
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency [USEPA] (2013) Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs Survey: American Indian and Alaska Native Village Water Systems Survey. USEPA, Drinking Water Protection Division, Washington, DC.

Categories: drinking water, tribe, indigenous

2013 United States Link
Westman, Clinton N. 2013 Social Impact Assessment and the Anthropology of the Future in Canada’s Tar Sands. Human Organization 72(2):111-120.

Categories: social impact assessment, tar sands, Anthropology of the Future, Canada, traditional land use

2013 Canada Link
Crippa, L. and Gordon, G. 2013. International Law Principles for REDD+: The rights of indigenous peoples and the obligations of REED+. Indian Law Resource Center working paper.

Categories: American Indian Law, REDD+, Indingeous people, Rights, tribe, indigenous

2013 Global Link
Dittmer, K., 2013: Changing streamflow on Columbia basin tribal lands—climate change and salmon. Climatic Change, 120, 627-641, doi:10.1007/s10584-013-0745-0. URL ↩

Categories: Streamflow, Traditional foods, tribe, indigenous, Salmon

2013 Northwest Link
Whyte, K. Powys, 2013: Justice forward: Tribes, climate adaptation and responsibility. Climatic Change, 120, 517-530, doi:10.1007/s10584-013-0743-2.↩

Categories: justice, responsibility, Adaptation, Soveregnity, tribe, indigenous

2013 United States
DOE Office of Indian Energy. 2013 Fuel from Waste Helps Power Two Tribes. Indian Energy Beat Newsletter, Summer/Fall, pg. 3. http://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2013/11/f5/58723__NS_IE_Newsletter_SummerFall2013_FINAL.pdf

Categories: Renewable energy, tribe, indigenous

2013 Southeast Link
Williams, T., & Hardison, P. (2013). Culture, law, risk and governance: contexts of traditional knowledge in climate change adaptation. Climatic Change, 120(3), 531-544.

Categories: Traditional Knowledge, Adaptation, FPIC, tribe, indigenous

2013 Global Link
Doyle J (2013) Exploring effects of climate change on Northern Plains American Indian health. Climatic Change 3: 643-655.

Categories: Climate change, American Indian Health, Northern Plains, tribe, indigenous

2013 Link
Willox, CA.; Landman, K.; Harper, S.L.; Edge, V.L.; Houle, K.; Ford, J. D. 2013. The land enriches the soul: On climatic and environmental change, affect, and emotional health and well-being in Rigolet, Nunatsiavut, Canada. Emotion, Space and Society. 6:14-24.

Categories: Emotion, Climate change, environmental change, Health and well-being, Inuit, tribe, indigenous

2013 Arctic
Egeland G, Harrison G (2013) Health disparities: promoting Indigenous Peoples’ health through traditional food systems and self-determination. In: Kuhnlein H., Erasmus B., Spigelski D., Burlingame B. (Eds.) 2013. Indigenous Peoples’ food systems & well-being interventions and policies for healthy communities.

Categories: Health, Traditional foods, self determination, tribe, indigenous

2013 Global Link
Wildcat, D.R. Climatic Change (2013) 120: 509. doi:10.1007/s10584-013-0849-6

Categories: DOI, climate change, adaptation, mitigation

2013 National Link
Fugate C. 2013. Changing laws for the better - recognizing tribal sovereignty. FEMA. Available at: https://www.fema.gov/blog/2013-01-31/changing-laws-better-recognizing-tribal-sovereignty

Categories: Sovereignty, FEMA, Disasters, tribe, indigenous

2013 United States Link
Gautam, M. R., K. Chief, and W. J. Smith, Jr., 2013: Climate change in arid lands and Native American socioeconomic vulnerability: The case of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe. Climatic Change, 120, 585-599, doi:10.1007/s10584-013-0737-0. URL ↩

Categories: vulnerability, adaptative capacity, tribe, indigenous

2013 Pyramid Lake Paiute Link
ITEP. 2013. Fact Sheet- Black Carbon Alaska. EPA.

Categories: Alaska Native Villages, Black Carbon, emissions, Climate Mitigation, human health, visibility, factsheet

2013 Alaska, Northwest, Pacific Northwest, West Coast, Global, Arctic, United States Link
Gearheard Fox, Shari, Kielsen Holm, Lene, Huntington, Henry P., Leavitt, Joe M., Mahoney, Andrew R., Opie, Margaret, Oshima, Toku and Joelie Sanguya, eds. 2013. The Meaning of Ice. People and Sea Ice in Three Arctic Communities. Hanover, NH: International Polar Institute Press.

Categories: Climate change, sea ice, Inuit, Traditional Knowledge, Oral history, tribe, indigenous

2013 Arctic Link
ITEP. 2013. Climate Change and Black Carbon: What it means for Tribes and what you can do. 2013 United States, National, Global, Arctic Link
Grah, O., and J. Beaulieu, 2013: The effect of climate change on glacier ablation and baseflow support in the Nooksack River basin and implications on Pacific salmonid species protection and recovery. Climatic Change, 120, 657-670, doi:10.1007/s10584-013-0747-y.↩

Categories: traditional food, Salmon, tribe, indigenous

2013 Pacific Northwest Link
Hansen T. 2013. Eight Tribes that are way ahead of climate-adaptation Curve. Indian Country Today Media Network. Available at: http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/10/15/8-tribes-are-way-ahead-climate-adaptation-curve-151763

Categories: Climate change, Adaptation, Mitigation, tribe, indigenous

2013 United States, Northwest, Southwest, Alaska Link
Hoover, E. 2013. Cultural and health implications of fish advisories in a Native American community. BioMed Central Ltd.

Categories: Fish advisories, Native American, Mohawk, Haudenosaunee, PCBs, Superfund, St. Lawrence River, Health risk assessment, tribe, indigenous

2013 Northeast Link
ScienceDirect

Categories: climate change, human impacts, health, well-being

2012 National Link
Coastal Louisiana Tribal Communities, 2012: Stories of Change: Coastal Louisiana Tribal Communities’ Experiences of a Transforming Environment (Grand Bayou, Grand Caillou/Dulac, Isle de Jean Charles, Pointe-au-Chien). Workshop Report Input into the National Climate Assessment. URL ↩

Categories: Coastal Louisiana, Climate change, assessment, Adaptation, tribe, indigenous

2012 Southeast
Raftery M. 2012. Wind Storm: Tribes Implore President Obama To Stop Ocotillo Express Wind Project, Save Cultural Resource Sites Available At: http://www.eastcountymagazine.org/wind-storm-tribes-implore-president-obama-stop-ocotillo-express-wind-project-save-cultural-resource

Categories: Renewable energy, tribe, indigenous

2012 Link
Draut, A.E., Redsteer, M. Hiza and Amoroso, L., 2012, Recent seasonal variations in arid landscape cover and aeolian sand mobility, Navajo Nation, southwestern U.S.; Climates, Landscapes, and Civilizations Geophysical Union Monograph Series 198, p 51-60.

Categories: Drought, Aird Landscapes, Navajo Nation, Southwest, tribe, indigenous

2012 Southwest
Riley, R., P. Blanchard, R. Peppler, T. M. Bull Bennett, and D. Wildcat, 2012: Oklahoma Inter-Tribal Meeting on Climate Variability and Change: Meeting Summary Report. 23. URL ↩

Categories: Climate change, American Indians, tribe, indigenous

2012 United States
Farbotko, Carol, and Heather Lazrus 2012 The First Climate Refugees? Contesting Global Narratives of Climate Change in Tuvalu. Global Environmental Change 22:382–390.

Categories: Climate-induced displacement, Climate refugees, Migration, Adaptation, Everyday practice, Tuvalu, tribe, indigenous

2012 Global Link
Royster, J. V. (2012). Climate Change and Tribal Water Rights: Removing Barriers to Adaptation Strategies. Tul. Envtl. LJ, 26, 197.

Categories: Climate change, water rights, tribal water rights, reserved water rights, Indian water rights, tribe, indigenous

2012 United States