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
Shearer, C., 2011: Kivalina: A Climate Change Story. Haymarket Books, 198 pp.↩

Categories: Kivalina, Climate change, Alaska, tribe, indigenous

2011 Alaska, Arctic
Heyes, Scott A. 2011. Cracks in the knowledge: sea ice terms in Kangiqsualujjuaq, Nunavik. The Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe Canadien 55(1): 69–90.

Categories: Keywords:
sea ice, Inuit knowledge, knowledge transmission, generations, Inuktitut, tribe, indigenous

2011 Canada, Arctic Link
Blomberg

Categories: keystone, pipeline, NEPA, EIA, fossil fuels

2019 U.S. 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
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
Whyte, K. Powys, 2013: Justice forward: Tribes, climate adaptation and responsibility. Climatic Change, 120, 517-530, doi:10.1007/s10584-013-0743-2.↩

Categories: justice, responsibility, Adaptation, Soveregnity, tribe, indigenous

2013 United States
Coral Davenport and Campbell Robertson. 2016. Resettling the First American ‘Climate Refugees’. New York Times.

Categories: Isle de Jean Charles Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Indians, Sea Level Rise, Climate Impacts, Relocation

2016 Southeast, Gulf of Mexico Link
National Health Board

Categories: IPCC, temperatures, climate change, oceans, coral reefs

2019 Oceans Link
James D. Ford, Laura Cameron, Jennifer Rubis, Michelle Maillet, Douglas Nakashima, Ashlee Cunsolo Willox and Tristan Pearce. 2016. Including indigenous knowledge and experience in IPCC assessment reports. Nature Climate Change 6.

Categories: IPCC, Climate Assessment, Policy, Science, Indigenous Peoples' Issues

2016 International Link
Ford, James D., Pearce, Tristan, Duerden, Frank, Furgal, Chris, and Barry Smit. 2010. Climate change policy responses for Canada’s Inuit population: The Importance of and opportunities for adaptation. Global Environmental Change 20:177–191.

Categories: Inuit, Climate change, vulnerability, Adaptation, Canada, indigenous peoples, Aboriginal peoples, Climate policy, tribe, indigenous

2010 Arctic, Canada Link
Anaya, S. James and Puig, Sergio, Mitigating State Sovereignty: The Duty to Consult with Indigenous Peoples (November 28, 2016). 67 University of Toronto Law Journal ___ (Forthcoming); Arizona Legal Studies Discussion Paper No. 16-42. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2876760

Categories: Internatnional Law, International Human Rights, Right of Consultation, Indigenous Peoples' Rights, Sovereignty

2016 National Link
Riley, Angela and Carpenter, Kristen A., Owning Red: A Theory of Indian (Cultural) Appropriation (September 3, 2015). Texas Law Review, Vol. 94, p. 859, 2016. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2655694

Categories: Intellectual property, dispossession, cultural appropriation, intangible property, freedom of speech, cultural property claims, extralegal, sacred sites, property law, legal

2015 National, United States Link
Henkel, K. E., Dovidio, J. F., & Gaertner, S. L. (2006). Institutional discrimination, individual racism, and Hurricane Katrina. Analyses of social issues and public policy, 6(1), 99-124.

Categories: Institutional discrimination, individual racism, Hurricane Katrina

2006 Southeast Link
Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center, "Unique Method for Stakeholder Input Informs Co-Produced Model of Sudden Oak Death Transmission". June 6, 2019. https://secasc.ncsu.edu/2019/06/06/unique-method-for-stakeholder-input-informs-co-produced-model-of-sudden-oak-death-transmission/

Categories: infectious forest disease, stakeholder input, modeling, sudden oak death, timber industry

2019 Link
Reed, A. 2008. Class inequality, liberal bad faith, and neoliberalism: the true disaster of Katrina. In N. Gunewardena and M. Schuller (eds.) Capitalizing on catastrophe: neoliberal strategies in disaster reconstruction. Lanham, MD: Altamira Press. Pp. 147-154.

Categories: Inequality, Katrina, Neoliberalism, Disasters

2008 Southeast
Sadasivam, Naveena. “Indigenous Tribes Are at the Forefront of Climate Change Planning in the U.S.” Grist, 4 Feb. 2020, https://grist.org/climate/indigenous-tribes-are-at-the-forefront-of-climate-change-planning-in-the-u-s/.

Categories: indigenous, tribes, climate change, adaptation, fish, vulnerability, Nez Perce Tribe

2020 Link
Milburn, M. 2004: Indigenous Nutrition: Using Traditional Food Knowledge to Solve Contemporary Health Problems. American Indian Quarterly 28(3/4): 411-435.

Categories: indigenous, tribe, Traditional Knowledge, traditional food, Health

2004 Global Link
Kuhnlein, H V., Receveur O., Souedia R., Egeland G.M., 2004: Arctic Indigenous Peoples Experience the Nutrition Transition with Changing Dietary Patterns and Obesity. J. Nutr. June 1, 2004 vol. 134 no. 6 1447-1453

Categories: indigenous, tribe, nutrition transition, dietary change, Arctic Canada, traditional food

2004 Arctic Link
Jacob, M.M. 2013. Yakama rising: indigenous cultural revitalization, activism, and healing. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

Categories: indigenous, tribe, cultural revitalization, activism, healing

2013 Northwest
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
Krakoff, S., 2008: American Indians, Climate Change, and Ethics for a Warming World. University of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-19. Denver University Law Review. URL ↩

Categories: indigenous, tribe, Climate change, ethnics, Treaties

2008 United States Link
Arctic Council. 2009. Tromsø Declaration. On the occasion of the Sixth Ministerial Meeting of the Arctic Council, the 29th of April, 2009, Tromsø, Norway. https://2009-2017.state.gov/e/oes/rls/other/2009/123483.htm (accessed June 22, 2015).

Categories: indigenous, tribe, arctic residents, global climate change, arctic warming

2009 Arctic, Coastal, Norway Link
Mckenna, Phil . “Environmental Justice Grabs a Megaphone in the Climate ...” Inside climate news, 5 Jan. 2018, insideclimatenews.org/news/04012018/environmental-justice-climate-activism-standing-rock-black-lives-matter.

Categories: indigenous, environmental justice, racial justice, activism, climate change

2018 Link
Restoration Ecology

Categories: indigenous, ecosystems, Indigenous People and Local Communities (IPLC), resilience

2019 United States. Link
Indigenous Peoples Climate Change Portal

Categories: indigenous, Climate change

2015 International Link
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
Amnesty International USA. 2007. Maze of injustice: the failure to protect Indigenous women from sexual violence in the USA. http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/issues/women-s-rights/violence-against-women/maze-of-injustice. (July 7, 2014).

Categories: Indigenous women, sexual violence, tribe, indigenous

2007 United States
2016. Research Ethics: A Source Guide to Conducting Research with Indigenous Peoples. Indigenous Geography.

Categories: indigenous science, research, climate change, cultural resources, sovereignty, self-determination

2016 Global Link
Kalliongis, Jamie, and Strategic Communications. “UN Spotlights Indigenous Peoples' Contribution to Global Goals.” Rights Resources, 9 May 2018, rightsandresources.org/en/blog/un-permanent-forum-spotlights-indigenous-peoples-contributions-to-global-goals/#.Wvx5n6QvyUn.

Categories: indigenous rights, land, resources, climate change, erosion, sustainable development, displacement

2018 Link
Tegel, S. (2018, September 17). A Native Answer to Climate Change. U.S. News. Retrieved September 18, 2018, from https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2018-09-17/indigenous-peoples-property-rights-may-help-slow-climate-change

Categories: indigenous rights, human rights, land management, climate change, Co2 emissions, illegal logging, deforestation

2018 South America Link