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
Andre Alestine, Karst, Amanda, and Nancy J. Turner. 2006. Arctic and Subarctic Plants. In Handbook of North American Indians. Vol. 3. Environment, Origins, and Population. D.H. Ubelaker, ed. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, pp. 222–235.

Categories: Arctic, Subarctic, Plants

2006 Arctic, Subarctic
Winters, Chris. Tulalips convene summit on adapting to climate change. 2016. HeraldNet.

Categories: Arctic, traditional foods, subsistence, hunting, gathering, climate change, climate patterns

2016 Pacific Northwest, United States, Alaska, Arctic, Yukon Link
Funes, Yessenia, STUDY: Climate Change Perceptions Vary Among Generations of Alaska's Yup'ik and Cup'ik People. 2016. Colorlines.

Categories: Arctic, Yukon, Alaska, Climate change, adaptation, traditional knowledge, generation

2016 Arctic, Alaska, United States, Northwest Link
Ferguson, D. B., C. Alvord, M. Crimmins, H. M. Redsteer, M. Hayes, C. McNutt, R. Pulwarty, and M. Svoboda, 2011:Drought Preparedness for Tribes in the Four Corners Region. Report from April 2010 Workshop. Tucson, AZ: Climate Assessment for the Southwest. 42 pp., The Climate Assessment for the Southwest (CLIMAS), The Institute of the Environment, The University of Arizona. URL ↩

Categories: assessment, Four Corners Region, Drought, tribe, indigenous

2011 Southwest
Dalton, M., Mote, P.W., Snover, A.K. 2013. Climate Change in the Northwest: Implications for our Landscapes, Waters, and Communities. Washington, D.C.: Island Press. 271 pp.

Categories: Assessment, Northwest, Risk

2013 Northwest Link
Mauger, G.S., J.H. Casola, H.A. Morgan, R.L. Strauch, B. Jones, B. Curry, T.M. Busch lSaksen, L. Whitely Binder, M.B. Krosby, and A.K. Snover. 2015. State of Knowledge. Climate Change in Puget Sound. Report repared for the Puget Sound Partnership and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Climate Impacts Group. University of Washington, Seattle. Doi: 10.7915/CIG93777D

Categories: Assessment, Synthesis, Summary, Climate Data, Puget Sound

2015 Pacific Northwest, Washington, Puget Sound Link
James H. Thorne, Ryan M. Boynton, Andrew J. Holguin, Joseph A.E. Stewart and Jacquelyn Bjorkman. 2016. A Climate Change Vulnerabillity Assessment of California's Terrestrial Vegetation. Information Center for the Environment: UC Davis. Report Prepared for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.

Categories: Assessment, Vegetation, Climate Impacts, Climate Modeling, California

2016 California, Northwest, Southwest, West Link

Categories: assessment, vulnerability, index, ecosystems, data, conservation

Western United States Link
Hoxie, F. E., 2001: A Final Promise: The Campaign to Assimilate the Indians, 1880-1920. University of Nebraska Press.↩

Categories: Assimilation, tribe, indigenous

2001 United States
Whyte, Kyle, Our Ancestors’ Dystopia Now: Indigenous Conservation and the Anthropocene (September 8, 2016). Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities, Forthcoming . Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2770047

Categories: Athropocene, Indigenous Lifeways, Indigenous Environmentalism, Philosophy, Climate Impacts

2016 National, International Link
Corringham, T. W., Ralph, F. M., Gershunov, A., Cayan, D. R., & Talbot, C. A. (2019). Atmospheric rivers drive flood damages in the western United States. Science Advances, 5(12). doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aax4631

Categories: atmospheric rivers, precipitation, flooding, economic impacts, climate change, development

2019 Western United States Link
Oregon State University

Categories: Bees, fire, forests, climate change

2019 Pacific Northwest Link
USGS. 2017. Model development for climate-driven impacts to berry resources in Alaska.

Categories: berries, conservation, management, sustainability, planning, policy, projections

2017 Alaska Link
Rising sea levels are forcing an indigenous tribe from home and could be an example of the future.

Categories: Biloxi, Choctaw, Florida, Native land, climate change, sea level, sea rise, island

2016 Southeast, Bayou, Florida Link
Edwin Ogar, Gretta Pecl, Tero Mustonen (2020) Science Must Embrace Traditional and Indigenous Knowledge to Solve Our Biodiversity Crisis, One Earth Vol 3, 162-165, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2020.07.006

Categories: biodiversity, indigenous knowledge

2020 Global Link
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
Hummel S. Lake FK. (2015) "Forest Site Classification for Cultural Plant Harvest by Tribal Weavers can Inform Management" Forest Ecology.

Categories: blended scientific method, forest structure, cultural plants, silviculture, basketry, traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), tribe, indigenous

2015 Northwest Link
Flatt, Courtney. 2017. Proposed EPA Cuts Could Pose Big Problems For Tribes. KUOW.

Categories: budget cuts, support, climate change, environmental hazard, trump administration, white house, legislation, planning, policy, grants

2017 National Link
President’s FY2016 Indian Affairs Budget Requests $2.9 Billion to Support Tribal Self-Determination, Strengthen Native American Communities

Categories: Budget, Self-Determination, tribe, indigenous

2015 United States Link
Houde, N. (2007). The six faces of traditional ecological knowledge: challenges and opportunities for Canadian co-management arrangements. Ecology and Society, 12(2), 34.

Categories: Canada, co-management, co-management arrangement, First Nation, Natural Resource Management, traditional ecological knowledge, tribe, indigenous

2007 Canada
Jones, Chas. “The Power Paddle to Puyallup: From the Perspective of a CASC Tribal Liaison.” Lack of Connected Habitat in the Southeast Has Consequences for Wildlife | Climate Adaptation Science Centers, USGS Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center, 26 Aug. 2018, casc.usgs.gov/content/power-paddle-puyallup-perspective-casc-tribal-liaison.

Categories: canoe journey, cultural revitalization, relationship building, over fishing, climate change impacts

2018 Washington Link
“Carbon Pricing; A Critical Perspective for Community Resistance.” Carbon Pricing; A Critical Perspective for Community Resistance, www.ienearth.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Carbon-Pricing-A-Critical-Perspective-for-Community-Resistance-Online-Version.pdf.

Categories: carbon emissions, carbon pricing, climate change, indigenous, environmental justice, climate justice, fossil fuels

2017 National Link
Knudson, C.L., Hayes, M.J., and Svoboda, M.D. (2007) Case Study of Tribal Drought Planning: The Hualapai Tribe; Natural Hazards Review, p.125-131.

Categories: Case reports, Droughts, American Indians, United States, tribe, indigenous

2007
Lawler, J.H.; Bullock, R.C.L. 2017. A Case for Indigenous Community Forestry. Journal of Forestry. 115(2), 117-125.

Categories: case study, community forestry, indigenous forestry, sustainability

2017 National Link
Melillo, Jerry M., Terese (T.C.) Richmond, and Gary W. Yohe, eds. 2014 Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment. Washington, DC: U.S. Global Change Research Program.

Categories: Changing Climate, Water Resources, Energy, Transportation, Agriculture, Forests, Ecosystems and Biodiversity, Human Health, Energy, Water, and Land Use, Urban Systems and Infrastructure, indigenous peoples, land use, Rural Communities, Biogeochemical Cycles, Northeast Southeast and Caribbean, Midwest, Great Plains, Southwest, Northwest, Alaska, Hawai‘i and U.S. Affiliated Pacific Islands, Oceans and Marine Resources, Coastal Zones, tribe, indigenous

2014 United States Link
Pacific Northwest Weighs Response to Risks Posed by Oil Trains. July 31, 2016.

Categories: chinook, salmon, fisheries, salmon run, habitat restoration, population, spawning, Gorge, dam, dam removal

2016 Yakama territories, Washington, Oregon, Pacific Northwest Link
Linn, Emily. US tribes work with scientists against climate change. 2016.

Categories: Choctaw, Oklahoma, Climate change, weather patterns, clean water, drought, vulnerability assessment

2016 Oklahoma, United States, Southeast Link
Williams, T.; Hardison, P. 2005. Global climate change: environmental change and water law. Paper presented at the law seminars international conference What is Next for Washington Water Law? May 20, 2005

Categories: Cimate Change, indigenous peoples, water rights, Water Law, tribe, indigenous

2005 Northwest
Pierre-Louis, K. 2017. If the EPA doesn't believe in science, what is it good for? Popular Science.

Categories: claimtea change, environmental protection, budget cuts, governemntal agency, funding, climate science, trump administration, white house. legislation, planning, policy

2017 National Link
Friedman, L. 2017. Scientists Fear Trump Will Dismiss Blunt Climate Report. The New York Times.

Categories: cliamte chagne, Tru,p Administration, white house, planning, policy, legislation, adaptation, mitigation, coal, emissions, carbon, green house gases,

2017 United States, National Link