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
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
Enarson, E. 2011. Does Violence Against Women Increase In Disasters?

Categories: Hurricane Katrina, gender based violence

2011 Southeast
National Wildlife Federation (2011) Facing the Storm: Indian Tribes, Climate-Induced Weather Extremes, and the Future for Indian Country. National Wildlife Federation Rocky Mountain Research Center, Boulder, Colorado, 28p.

Categories: Adaptation, Climate change, Government-Tribal impacts, National Wildlife Federation, tribe, indigenous

2011
Bronen R., 2010. Forced Migration of Alaskan Indigenous Communities Due to Climate Change, T. Afifi and J. Jager (editors) Environment Forced Migration and Social Vulnerability, International Organization of Migration.

Categories: Climate-induced displacement, Climate change, Migration, Alaska, tribe, indigenous

2010 Alaska, Arctic Link
Karuk Tribe, 2010: Department of Natural Resources Eco-Cultural Resource Management Plan. 171 pp., Karuk Tribe of California, Department of Natural Resources. URL ↩

Categories: Karuk, Management Plan, tribe, indigenous

2010 Northwest Link
Bronen R., 2010. Forced Migration of Alaskan Indigenous Communities Due to Climate Change, T. Afifi and J. Jager (editors) Environment Forced Migration and Social Vulnerability, International Organization of Migration.

Categories: Climate-induced displacement, social vulnerability, tribe, indigenous

2010 Alaska, Arctic
Kellogg, Joshua, Jinzhi Wang, Courtney Flint, David Ribnicky, Peter Kuhn, Elvira González
De Mejia, Ilya Raskin and Mary Ann Lila, 2010: Alaskan Wild Berry Resources and Human Health under the Cloud of Climate Change. J. Agric. Food Chem., 2010, 58 (7), pp 3884– 3900 DOI: 10.1021/jf902693r

Categories: traditional ecological knowledge, adipocytes, diabetes, Obesity, metabolic syndrome, tribe, indigenous

2010 Alaska, Arctic
Bronen, R. (2010). Forced migration of Alaskan indigenous communities due to climate change. In Environment, forced migration and social vulnerability (pp. 87-98). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

Categories: Alaska, indigenous people, tribe, Shishmaref, Kivalina, Shaktoolik, Newtok, Relocation, displacement, climate-induced migration, climigration

2010 Arctic, Alaska Link
Kofinas, G.P., Chapin F.S. III, BurnSilver, S., Schmidt, J.I., Fresco, N.L., Kielland, K., Martin, S., Springsteen, A. and Rupp, T.S. (2010) Resilience of Athabascan subsistence systems to interior Alaska’s changing climate. Canadian Journal of Forestry Research, Vol. 40, p.1347–1359.

Categories: Subsistence harvesting, Athabascan peoples, moose, hunting conflicts, co-management strategies, tribe, indigenous

2010 Alaska Link
Peterson, Kristina Joy. 2011 Transforming Researchers and Practitioners: The Unanticipated Consequences (Significance) of Participatory Action Research (PAR). Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Urban Studies, University of New Orleans.

Categories: Participatory Action Research (PAR), post-disaster recovery project, Southeast, The Grand Bayou Participatory Action Research (PAR) project, tribe, indigenous

2011 Southeast Link
Burley, David. 2010 Losing Ground: Identity and Land Loss in Coastal Louisiana. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.

Categories: Coastal zone management, Louisiana, Coastal settlements, Coast changes, Gulf Coast Region, Place attachment, Identity, tribe, indigenous

2010 Southeast Link
Krupnik, Igor, Aporta, Claudio, Gearheard, Shari, Laidler, Gita J., and Lene Kielsen Holm. 2010. SIKU: Knowing Our Ice. Documenting Inuit Sea Ice Knowledge and Use. Dorderecht: Springer.

Categories: tribe, indigenous

2010
Quileute Newsletter, 2011: Key committee approves Cantwell bill to move Quileute Tribe out of tsunami zone. The Talking Raven: A Quileute Newsletter. URL ↩

Categories: Quileute, Relocationtribe, indigenous

2011 Northwest
Collins, G., M. H. Redsteer, M. Hayes, M. Svoboda, D. Ferguson, R. Pulwarty, D. Kluck, and C. Alvord, 2010: Climate change, drought and early warning on western Native lands workshop report. National Integrated Drought Information System. Climate Change, Drought and Early Warning on Western Native Lands Workshop, 7. URL ↩

Categories: Drought, early warning, Western US, tribe, indigenous

2010 Western United States
Laidler, Gita J., Elee, Pootoogoo, Ikummaq, Teo, Joamie, Eric, and Claudio Aporta. 2010. Mapping Inuit sea ice knowledge, use, and change in Nunavut, Canada (Cape Dorset, Igloolik, Pangnirtung). In SIKU: Knowing Our Ice. Documenting Inuit Sea Ice Knowledge and Use. Igor Krupnik, Claudio Aporta, Shari Gearheard, Gita J. Laidler, and Lene Kielsen Holm, eds. Dorderecht: Springer, pp. 45–80.

Categories: tribe, indigenous

2010
Redsteer, M. H., 2011: Increasing Vulnerability to Drought and Climate Change on the Navajo Nation, Southwestern United States. Current Conditions & Accounts Of Changes During The Last 100 Years. 31 pp., U.S. Geological Survey. 0928. URL ↩

Categories: Climate change, Drought, Navajo Nation, tribe, indigenous

2011
Davis, S. H. (2010) Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change. The International Indigenous Policy Journal, Vol. 1 Article 2, p.1-19. Retrieved from: http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/iipj/vol1/iss1/2

Categories: indigenous, tribe, Climate change, green house gas emissions

2010 United States Link
Laska, Shirley, Kristina Peterson, Michelle E. Alcina, Jonathan West, Ashey Volion, Brent Tranchina, and Richard Krajeski. 2010. Enhancing Gulf of Mexico Coastal Communities' Resiliency through Participatory Community Engagement. CHART Publications. Paper 21. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/chart_pubs/21

Categories: tribe, indigenous

2010
Redsteer, M. H., K. B. Kelley, H. Francis, and D. Block, 2011: Disaster Risk Assessment Case Study: Recent Drought on the Navajo Nation, Southwestern United States. Contributing Paper for the Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction. 19 pp., United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA. URL↩

Categories: Disaster Risk Assessment, Four Corners, Navajo Nation, Drought, Southwest, tribe, indigenous

2011 Southwest
Federal Register (2010) Indian Entities Eligible to Receive Services from the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs. Vol. 75:190, Friday October 1, 2010 Notices; 60810-60814.

Categories: tribe, indigenous

2010 United States Link