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
Kukarenko, N. 2011. Climate change effects on human health in a gender perspective: some trends in Arctic research. Global Health Action. 4: 7913. Categories: Climate change effects, Human Health, gender, Arctic, tribe, indigenous	2011	Arctic
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
Donaghue, E., MacKendrick, K. & Lynn, K. (2011). Social Vulnerability and Climate Change: Synthesis of Literature . Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-838. Portland, OR: US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. Categories: Literature Synthesis, Social Vulnerability, Equity, Climate Justice	2011	National	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
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
Harris, Gary; Lynn, Kathy; MacKendrick, Katie; Satein, Hannah; University of Oregon (UO) Resource Innovation Group; UO Institute for a Sustainable Environment. 2011. Effectiveness of the Federal-Tribal Relationship. Report Submitted as part of Northwest Forest Plan 15 Year Reports. R6-RPM-TP-01-2011. Categories: Policy, Northwest Forest Plan, Consultation, Co-Management, Natural Resource Management, Forestry	2011	Northwest	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
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
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
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
Barker, Joanne. 2011. Native Acts: Law, Recognition, and Cultural Authenticity. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Categories: Federal Recognition, cultural authenticity, Native oppression, decolonization and self-determination, Native movements and cultural revitalization, tribe, indigenous	2011	United States	Link
NTGBC, 2011: National Tribal Green Building Codes Summit Statement. 2 pp., Tribal Green Building Codes Workgroup. URL ↩ Categories: Sustainability, tribe, indigenous	2011	United States
Bender, S., E. Burke, D. Chahim, L. Eshbach, L. L. Gordon, F. Kaplan, K. McCusker, H. Palevsky, M. Rowell, D. Battisti, J. Barcelos, J. Marlow, and S. Stzern, 2011: Initial Assessment of Lead Agency Candidates to Support Alaska Native Villages Requiring Relocation to Survive Climate Harms. 82 pp., University of Washington Climate Justice Seminar Spring 2011, Three Degrees Project, Seattle, WA. URL ↩ Categories: Climate change, Relocation, tribe, Alaska Native, tribe, indigenous	2011	Alaska, Arctic	Link
Olp S (2011) Crow flooding: More than 200 Crow Reservation homes damaged, destroyed from flooding. Billings Gazette. June 15, 2011. Billings, MT Categories: tribe, indigenous	2011
Bethel, Matthew B., Lynn F. Brien, Emily J. Danielson, Shirley B. Laska, John P. Troutman, William M. Boshart, Marco J. Giardino, and Maurice A. Phillips. 2011. Blending Geospatial Technology and Traditional Ecological Knowledge to Enhance Restoration Decision-Support Processes in Coastal Louisiana. CHART Publications. Paper 23:555 -571 Categories: Restoration, GIS, remote sensing, traditional ecological knowledge, Coastal Louisiana, land loss, marsh health, community vulnerability, Grand Bayou, ecosystem users, Coastal Management, tribe, indigenous	2011	Southeast	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
Bronen, R., 2011: Climate-induced community relocations: Creating an adaptive governance framework based in human rights doctrine. New York University Review Law & Social Change, 35, 357-408. URL ↩ Categories: Climate change, coastal retreat, climigration, tribe, indigenous	2011	Global	Link
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
Brubaker MY, Bell JN, Berner JE, Warren JA (2011) Climate change health assessment: A novel approach for Alaska Native communities. Int J Circumpol Heal 70: 266-273. Categories: community-scale assessment, observation-based data, climate health impacts, Adaptation, tribe, indigenous	2011	Alaska, Arctic	Link
Teresa G. Jacobs and Santi Alston. Climate Change Impacts on Tribes’ Off-Reservation Resources: Legal Avenues for Protection. 2011. Categories: legal strategies, off-reservation resources, cultural resource protection, traditional subsistence, prevention, ecological removal, treaty-protected,	2011	National, United States	Link
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
Brubaker, M. Y., J. N. Bell, J. E. Berner, and J. A. Warren, 2011: Climate change health assessment: A novel approach for Alaska Native communities. International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 70, doi:10.3402/ijch.v70i3.17820.↩ Categories: indigenous, Arctic, Climate change, Alaska Natives, health assessment, tribe	2011	Alaska. Arctic	Link
Lynn, Kathy; MacKendrick, Katharine; and Donoghue, Ellen M. 2011. Social vulnerability and climate change: synthesis of literature. Gen. Tech. Rep. Categories: social vulnerability, socioeconomic, cultural, political, social, health, climate justice, vulnerable populations, knowledge gaps, social impacts	2011	National, United States, International	Link
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
Buckley, G.L. and A. Allen. 2011. Stories about mountaintop removal in the Appalachian coalfields. In M. Morrone and G.L. Buckley (eds.) Mountains of injustice: social and environmental justice in Appalachia. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. Pp. 161-180. Categories: Appalachia, Mountaintop removal	2011
Redsteer, M. H., R. C. Bogle, and J. M. Vogel, 2011: Monitoring and Analysis of Sand Dune Movement and Growth on the Navajo Nation, Southwestern United States. Fact Sheet Number 3085. U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA. URL↩ Categories: Sand Dunes, Navajo Nation, Southwest, tribe, indigenous	2011	Southwest
Burkett M(2011) The nation ex-situ: on climate change, deterritorialized nationhood, and the post-climate era. Clim Law 2(3):345–374 Categories: Climate-induced displacement, Climate change, climate migration, international law	2011	International

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.