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
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
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
Marra, J.J., Keener, V.W., Finucane, M.L., Spooner, D., Smith, M.H. [Editors] (2012). Climate Change and Pacific Islands: Indicators and Impacts. Report for The 2012 Pacific Islands Regional Climate Assessment (PIRCA). Honolulu, Hawai‘i, USA. Categories: Climate change, climate variability, Pacific islands, freshwater resources, hydrology, Drought, Flooding, coastal inundation, sea-level rise, Adaptation, island ecosystems, Climate Modeling, ENSO, data and monitoring, Fisheries, climate risks, Downscaling, extreme events, climate change indicators, atolls, coral reefs, decision making, Natural Resource Management	2012		Link
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
McNeeley, S. M. (2012). Examining barriers and opportunities for sustainable adaptation to climate change in Interior Alaska. Climatic Change, 111(3-4), 835-857. Categories: Climate change, Adaptation, Alaska	2012	Alaska	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
Ferris, E., 2012. Protection and Planned Relocations in the Context of Climate Change. UN High Commission of Refugees, Division of International Protection, Geneva, Switzerland. Categories: Development-induced displacement, Climate change, resettlement, tribe, indigenous	2012	International	Link
Michelle, N., 2012: Uses of Plant Food-Medicines in the Wabanaki Bioregions of the Northeast; a Cultural Assessment of Berry Harvesting Practices and Customs. University of Maine, Orono.↩ Categories: Climate change, Traditional foods, Berry Harvesting, Cultrual practices, tribe, indigenous	2012	Northeast
Schaefer, K., Lantuit, H., Romanovsky, V., & Schuur, E. (2012). Policy implications of warming permafrost. Categories: Public policy, permafrost	2012	Alaska, Arctic
Fienup-Riordan, Anna, and Alice Rearden. 2012. Ellavut / Our Yup'ik World and Weathe. Continuity and Change on the Bering Sea Coast.Seattle: University of Washington Press. Categories: Traditional Knowledge, cultural transmission, tribe, indigenous	2012	Alaska, Arctic	Link
Middleton, BM. (2012) “Just Another Hoop to Jump Through?” Using Environmental Laws and Processes to Protect Indigenous RightsEnvironmental management. 52:5. Categories: Environmental law Site protection Native American Indigenous Human rights Cultural resources, tribe, indigenous	2012
Sejersen, Frank. 2012. Mobility, climate change, and social dynamics in the Arctic: The creation of new horizons of expectation and the role of community. In Climate Change and Human Mobility: Global Challenges to the Social Sciences. Kirsten Hastrup and Karen Fog Olwig, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 190–213. Categories: Climate change, Migration	2012	Global, Arctic	Link
First Stewards, 2012: First Stewards: Coastal Peoples Address Climate Change. Categories: Coastal Tribes, Climate change, tribe, indigenous	2012	Northwest	Link
Moerlein KJ, Carothers C (2012) Total environment of change: impacts of climate change and social transitions on subsistence fisheries in northwest Alaska. Ecol Soc 17 Categories: Arctic, Climate change, environmental anthropology, Fisheries, human dimensions, local knowledge, social-ecological systems, subsistence, traditional ecological knowledge, tribe, indigenous	2012	Alaska	Link
Shearer, C., 2012: The political ecology of climate adaptation assistance: Alaska Natives, displacement, and relocation. Journal of Political Ecology, 19, 174-183. URL ↩ Categories: Climate change, Alaska Natives, Adaptation, displacement, Relocation, tribe, indigenous	2012	Alaska, Arctic
Grossman, Z., A. Parker, and B. Frank, 2012: Asserting Native Resilience: Pacific Rim Indigenous Nations Face the Climate Crisis. Oregon State University Press, 240 pp.↩ Categories: Climate change, Pacific Rim, indigenous peoples, tribe, indigenous	2012	Pacific Rim
Nakashima, D.J., Galloway McLean, K., Thulstrup, H.D., Ramos Castillo, A. and Rubis, J.T. 2012. Weathering Uncertainty: Traditional Knowledge for Climate Change Assessment and Adaptation. Paris, UNESCO, and Darwin, UNU, 10 pp. Categories: Resiliance, vulnerability, Traditional Knowledge, Adaptation, Climate change, indigenous peoples, tribe, indigenous	2012	Global	Link
Souza, K., and J. Tanimoto, 2012: PRiMO IKE Hui Technical Input for the National Climate Assessment – Tribal Chapter. PRiMO IKE Hui Meeting – January 2012, Hawai‘i. 5 pp., U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, D.C. URL ↩ Categories: Climate change, American Indians, Technical inputs, tribe, indigenous	2012	Northwest
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
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

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.