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 Sort ascending	Geography	Website
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
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
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
ITEP. 2012. Climate Change and Wildfire: What it means to tribes and how we can adapt. Categories: wildfire risk, temperature, flood susceptibility, reduction, fire management, mitigation, adaptation, invasive insects	2012	United States	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
The Nature Conservancy. 2012. Klawock River, Salmon Passage and Habitat Restoration Project Final Report. Prepared for NOAA Restoration Center. The Working Forest Group. 2013. Consolidated young growth forest land base analysis for all land ownership in Southeast Alaska and recommendations for federal land managers. Prepared at the request of: USDA Forest Service, Alaska Region. Categories: Southeast Alaska, Klawock Community Association, Klawock Heenya Corporation, watershed, hydrology	2012	Alaska	Link
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
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
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
Tribal Water Working Group (University of New Mexico), 2012: Water in Indian Country: Categories: Climate change, water rights, tribe, indigenous	2012
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Willox, A. C. 2012. "Climate Change as the Work of Mourning." Ethics & the Environment 17(2): 137-164. Categories: mourning, vulnerability	2012		Link
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
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
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
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
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
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
Navajo Nation Department of Water Resources, 2011: Draft Water Resource Development Strategy for the Navajo Nation. 135 pp., Navajo Nation Department of Water Resources, Fort Defiance, AZ. URL ↩ Categories: Navajo Nation, Water Resources, tribe, indigenous	2011	Southwest

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.