Tribal Climate Change Guide

The Tribal Climate Change Guide is part of the Pacific Northwest Tribal Climate Change Project (TCCP). The TCCP is part of the L.I.G.H.T. Foundation (LF), is an independent, Indigenous-led, conservation 501(c)(3) nonprofit established on the Colville Indian Reservation in the traditional territory of the Nespelem Tribe in present-day north central Washington State. LF supports the restoration and cultivation of native Plant and Pollinator Relatives and the culturally respectful conservation of habitats and ecosystems which are climate resilient and adaptive. For more information about LF, visit: https://thepnwlf.org/. For more information about the Tribal Climate Change Project, visit: https://tribalclimate.uoregon.edu/. If you would like to add information to this guide, please email kathy.lynn.or@gmail.com.

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
Hat, Sr., A. White, 2012: Sicangu Lakota Elder, personal communication.↩	2012
NASA Earth Observatory, 2012: Visualizing the 2012 Sea Ice Minimum. NASA Earth Observatory, EOS Project Science Office, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. URL ↩ Categories: sea ice, Climate change	2012	Web article	Link
Thackeray L (2012) 2012 Montana wildfires burn most acreage since 1910. Billings Gazette. 11/1/2012. Billings, MT Categories: Wildfire	2012	Northwest	Link
Hat, Sr., A. White, and Papalii Failautusi Avegalio, 2012: personal communication.↩	2012
NOAA. 2012 Global Sea Level Rise Scenarios for the United States National Climate Assessment. NOAA Technical Report OAR CPO-1. http://scenarios.globalchange.gov/sites/default/files/NOAA_SLR_r3_0.pdf Categories: Sea Level Rise	2012	United States	Link
Alaska Department of Commerce and Community and Economic Development, 2012: Relocation Report: Newtok to Mertarvik. 58 pp., Alaska Department of Commerce and Community and Economic Development, Anchorage, AK. URL↩ Categories: relocation report, Newtok, tribe, indigenous	2012	Alaska, Arctic
Huntington, H. P., E. Goodstein, and E. Euskirchen, 2012: Towards a tipping point in responding to change: Rising costs, fewer options for arctic and global societies. AMBIO, 41, 66-74, doi:10.1007/s13280-011-0226-5.↩ Categories: Climate change costs Prevention Response Politics Economics Village relocation Forest fires Sea level rise Arctic, tribe, indigenous	2012	Arctic
Norris, T., P. L. Vines, and E. M. Hoeffel, 2012: The American Indian and Alaska Native Population: 2010. 21 pp., U.S. Census Bureau. URL ↩ Categories: American Indian Population, tribe, indigenous	2012	United States
Alaska Forum, 2012: Alaska Forum on the Environment. Alaska Forum on the Environment, 54. URL ↩	2012	Alaska, Arctic	Link
Indian Health Service [IHS] (2012) The Sanitation Facilities Construction Program of the Indian Health Service Public Law 86-121 Annual Report for 2010. Rockville, MD. Categories: Sanitation, tribe, indigenous	2012	United States
Osborn R. 2012. Climate Change and the Columbia River Treaty. Washington Journal of Environmental Law & Policy. Vol 2.1. Pg. 75-123 Categories: Climate change, Columbia River Basin, Columbia River Treaty, hydropower, tribe, indigenous	2012	Northwest, Columbia River Basin, Oregon, Washington state	Link
American Indian Alaska Native Climate Change Working Group, 2012: American Indian Alaska Native Climate Change Working Group 2012 Spring Meeting. URL ↩ Categories: Climate change, Alaska, Alaska Native, tribe, indigenous	2012	Alaska, Arctic
Ingram KT, Dow K, Carter L, 2012: Southeast Region Technical Report to the National Climate Assessment. Categories: Adaptation, extreme weather, climate impacts, Climate Modeling, climate variability, Coastal, Drought, Education, electric intrusion, Sea Level Rise, silviculture, social vulnerability, Southeast, storm surge, tropical, Mitigation	2012	Southeast	Link
Overland, J. E., J. A. Francis, E. Hanna, and M. Wang, 2012: The recent shift in early summer Arctic atmospheric circulation. Geophysical Research Letters, 39, L19804, doi:10.1029/2012gl053268. URL ↩ Categories: Climate change	2012	Global	Link
ANTHC, 2012: Local Environmental Observer (LEO) Network. Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium. URL ↩ Categories: Alaska Native, Health, Climate change, tribe, indigenous	2012	Alaska, Arctic
Laska, Shirley. 2012. Dimensions of Resiliency: Essential, Exceptional, and Scale. International Journal of Critical Infrastructure 6(3): 246-276. Categories: Katrina, essential vulnerability, multiple hazards, infrastructure and social linkages, exceptional recovery, scale	2012	Southeast	Link
Oyate Omniciye: Oglala Lakota Plan. 2012. Available at: http://www.oglalalakotaplan.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Oyate-Omniciye-Final-.pdf Categories: Adaptation Plan, Oglala Lakota Plan, Climate change, tribe, indigenous	2012	Southwest	Link
Blackburn, Marion. 2012. Return to the Trail of Tears. Archaeology 65(2):53-64. Categories: Historical Displacement, tribe, indigenous	2012	United States
Lazrus, Heather. 2012. Sea Change: Island Communities and Climate Change. Annual Review of Anthropology 41: 285-301. Categories: vulnerability, resilience, Adaptation, Migration, justice, sea of islands, Climate-induced displacement, Island communities, tribe, indigenous	2012	Global	Link
Parrotta, John A.; Agnoletti, Mauro. 2012. Traditional forest-related knowledge and climate change. pp. 491-533 (Chapter 13) in: Parrotta, John A. and Trosper, Ronald L., editors. Traditional Forest-Related Knowledge: Sustaining Communities, Ecosystems and Biocultural Diversity. World Forest Series vol. 12. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands. Categories: traditional knowledges, Forests, Climate change, tribe, indigenous	2012		Link
Burkett, Virginia, and Margaret Davidson, eds. 2012 Coastal Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability: A Technical Input to the 2012 National Climate Assessment. Cooperative Report to the 2013 National Climate Assessment. Categories: Coastal Impacts, Adaptation, vulnerability	2012	Global	Link
MacDougall, A. H., C. A. Avis, and A. J. Weaver, 2012: Significant contribution to climate warming from the permafrost carbon feedback. Nature Geoscience, 5, 719-721, doi:10.1038/ngeo1573.↩ Categories: Biogeochemistry Climate science Cryospheric science	2012
Pautasso M., Döring T.F., Garbelotto M., Pellis l. and Jeger, M.J. (2012) Impacts of Climate Change on Plant Diseases—Opinions and Trends. European Journal of Plant Pathology, p.1-19. DOI 10.1007/s10658-012-9936-1. Categories: Adaptive ecosystem management Biotic interactions Landscape pathology Phytophthora ramorum Plant disease epidemiology Tree fungal pathogens	2012	Northwest	Link
Cameron, E. S. (2012). Securing Indigenous politics: A critique of the vulnerability and adaptation approach to the human dimensions of climate change in the Canadian Arctic. Global Environmental Change, 22(1), 103-114. Categories: Traditional Knowledge, vulnerability, Adaptation, Inuit, indigenous, Climate change, Governmentality, colonialism, Resource extraction, shipping, Mining, Legibility, tribe, indigenous	2012	Arctic
Maldonado, Julie 2012 A New Path Forward: Researching and Reflecting on Forced Displacement and Resettlement. Journal of Refugee Studies 25(2):193-220. Categories: Development, forced displacement, resettlement, tribe, indigenous	2012	Global	Link
Perdue, Theda. 2012. The Legacy of Indian Removal. The Journal of Southern History 78(1):3-36. Categories: Historical Displacement, tribe, indigenous	2012	Southwest
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
Marino, Elizabeth. 2012. The long history of environmental migration: Assessing vulnerability construction and obstacles to successful relocation in Shishmaref, Alaska. Global Environmental Change 22(2):374–381. Categories: Environmental migration, vulnerability, Adaptation, Governance, Inequity, Alaska, tribe, indigenous	2012	Alaska, Arctic	Link
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
Armitage, Derek, Berkes, Fikret, Dale, Aaron, Kocho-Schellenberg, Erik, and Eva Patton. 2011. Co-management and co-production of knowledge: Learning to adapt in Canada’s Arctic. Global Environmental Change 21:995–1004. Categories: Adaptation, Adaptive governance, Knowledge co-production, Knowledge integration, resilience, Social learning, Traditional Knowledge, vulnerability, tribe, indigenous	2011	Canada, Arctic, Global	Link

The Tribal Climate Change Guide is supported through partnerships between the University of Oregon Environmental Studies Program and the North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative, the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals and the Environmental Protection Agency Region 10 Tribal Program.
Questions about this Guide should be directed to kathy@uoregon.edu.