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	Geography	Website
Papiez, C., 2009: Climate Change Implications for the Quileute and Hoh Tribes of Washington: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Assessing Climatic Disruptions to Coastal Indigenous Communities. Master’s Thesis, Environmental Studies. The Evergreen State College, 119 pp. URL Categories: Climate change, Quileute and Hoh Tribes, Coastal Tribes, Northwest, Traditional Knowledge, tribe, indigenous	2009	Northwest	Link
Salil D. Benegal (2018) The spillover of race and racial attitudes into public opinion about climate change, Environmental Politics, 27:4, 733-756, DOI:10.1080/09644016.2018.1457287 Categories: climate change, racial attitudes, public opinion, communication	2018	National	Link
Lee, J. 2017. There Are Climate Change Refugees in the U.S. Right Now. Categories: climate change, refugee, relocation, natural disaster, hazard, victims, human health, community justice, social justice	2017	Untied States	Link
Stephen S. Ban, Hussein M. Alidina, Thomas A. Okey, Rachel M. Gregg, and Natalie C. Ban. Identifying potential marine climate change refugia: A case study in Canada’s Pacific marine ecosystems. CAKE. 2016. Categories: climate change, refugia, adaptation, mitigation, ocean, marine, aquaculture, climate science	2016	United States	Link
Ban, S.S., Alidina, H.M., Okey, T.A., Gregg, R.M. and Ban, N.C., 2016. Identifying potential marine climate change refugia: A case study in Canada’s Pacific marine ecosystems. Global Ecology and Conservation, 8, pp.41-54. Categories: climate change, refugia, canada, pacific, marine, sea, coastal	2016	Coastal, Canada	Link
Morelli, T.L., Daly, C., Dobrowski, S.Z., Dulen, D.M., Ebersole, J.L., Jackson, S.T., Lundquist, J.D., Millar, C.I., Maher, S.P., Monahan, W.B. and Nydick, K.R., 2016. Managing climate change refugia for climate adaptation. PLoS One, 11(8), p.e0159909. Categories: climate change, refugia, policy, planning, management, technical skills, climate sciecne, climate projection, adaptation	2016	Glodal, International, United States	Link
Photo Diary: A Week in Rural Alaska Where Climate Change Is Threatening a Village, Its School and Way of Life. The 74 Magazine. 2016. Categories: climate change, relocation, erosion, infrastructure, school	2016	Alaska, Arctic, Bering Sea	Link
Geiling, Natasha. 2017. Climate change is already forcing U.S. communities to abandon their homes. Think Progress. Categories: climate change, relocation, natural disaster, hazard, human health, land loss, adaptation, legislation	2017	National	Link
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
Five Tribes Benefit from Hands-On Training in Solar Operations and Maintenance. OIE. 2016. Categories: climate change, renewable energy, solar power, infrastructure, reduce, carbon, emissions	2016	Midwest, East Coast	Link
Winters, Chris. 2017. After 90 years, salmon are returning to upper Sultan River. HeraldNET. Categories: climate change, restoration, conservation, management, repopulation, habitat, spawning	2017	Washington, Pacific Northwest	Link
United States, Congress, Ho, et al. “Climate Risk Management Practices.” Climate Risk Management Practices, USDA Climate Hubs, 2018. Categories: climate change, risk management, adaptation, vulnerability assessments, forest vegetation, non-forest vegetation, water and infrastructure, fisheries, fish habitat, wetlands, riparian areas, wildlife, recreation	2018		Link
Martinez, Danny. 2017. Cycle of Life (video). Categories: climate change, salmon, adaptation, subsistence, cultural resources, mitigation, social justice, environmental justice, tribal health, Warm Springs	2017	Warm Springs, Oregon, Northwest, Pacific Northwest	Link
IPCC, 2007: Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. S. Solomon, D. Qin, M. Manning, Z. Chen, M. Marquis, K.B. Averyt, M. Tignor, and H.L. Miller, Eds. Cambridge University Press, 996 pp. URL Categories: Climate change, Science	2007	International
Wake Forest Law Review, Vol. 53, No. 713 Categories: climate change, science, indigenous population	2018	Global	Link
Gearheard Fox, Shari, Kielsen Holm, Lene, Huntington, Henry P., Leavitt, Joe M., Mahoney, Andrew R., Opie, Margaret, Oshima, Toku and Joelie Sanguya, eds. 2013. The Meaning of Ice. People and Sea Ice in Three Arctic Communities. Hanover, NH: International Polar Institute Press. Categories: Climate change, sea ice, Inuit, Traditional Knowledge, Oral history, tribe, indigenous	2013	Arctic	Link
Laidler, Gita J. 2006. Inuit and Scientific Perspectives on the Relationship between Sea Ice and Climate Change: The Ideal Complement? Climatic Change, 78 (2–4): 407–444. Categories: Climate change, sea ice, Traditional Knowledge, Science, tribe, indigenous	2006	Arctic	Link
Mulkern, Anne C. “Taller Plants Moving into Arctic Because of Climate Change.” Scientific American, 21 Sept. 2018, www.scientificamerican.com/article/prepare-for-10-feet-of-sea-level-rise-california-commission-tells-coastal-cities/. Categories: climate change, sea level rise, planning, adaptation	2018	California	Link
Goode, Erica. A Wrenching Choice for Alaska Towns in the Path of Climate Change. NY Times. 2016. Categories: climate change, seal level, flood, precipitation, migration, relocation, climate refugee	2016	Arctic, Alaska, United States	Link
Levy, Amir. 2017. Facing climate change on the Louisiana bayous – in pictures. The Guardian. Categories: climate change, seal level, relocation, adaptation, treaty land, reservation	2017	Louisiana	Link
Philippe. 2017. Food forests are helping these Native American reservations eat healthier. Categories: climate change, seasonal migration, food production, food justice, social justice, climate justice, human health, noncommunicable diseases, local, sustainable, diet, nutrition, education, access	2017	National	Link
Foytlin, Cherri. 2017. Indigenous Youth Took Center Stage at the People's Climate March. alternet.com Categories: climate change, social justice, racial justice, environmental justice, climate march	2017	National	Link
Carter, Lynne M., James W. Jones, Leonard Berry, Virginia Burkett, James F. Murley, JayanthaCarter, Lynne M., James W. Jones, Leonard Berry, Virginia Burkett, James F. Murley, Jayantha Obeysekera, Paul J. Schramm, and David Wear 2014 Ch. 17: Southeast and the Caribbean. In Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment. Jerry M. Melillo, Terese Richmond, and Gary W. Yohe, eds. Pp. 396-417. Washington, DC: U.S. Global Change Research Program. Categories: Climate change, Southeast, Caribbean, Sea Level Rise, Increasing Temperatures, Water Resources	2014	Southeast	Link
Whyte, Kyle, Indigenous Peoples, Climate Change Loss and Damage, and the Responsibility of Settler States (April 25, 2016). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2770085 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2770085 Categories: Climate Change, Sovereignty, Colonial States, Responsibility, Philosophy	2016	National, International	Link
Blackfeet Nation. 2017. Holistic Conservation is Not New to the Blackfeet Nation. Categories: climate change, stewardship, planning, management, adaptation, mitigation, TEK, Tradition, cultural practices	2017	Montana	Link
Brinkman, T.J., Hansen, W.D., Chapin, F.S., Kofinas, G., BurnSilver, S. and Rupp, T.S., 2016. Arctic communities perceive climate impacts on access as a critical challenge to availability of subsistence resources. Climatic Change, 139(3-4), pp.413-427. Categories: climate change, subsistence, ice, arctic, traditional knowledge, environment, wild foods, food justice, adaptation, human health, economy	2016	Alaska, Arctic	Link
Reo, N.J., Whyte, K.P., McGregor, D., Smith, M.A. and Jenkins, J.F., 2017. Factors that support Indigenous involvement in multi-actor environmental stewardship. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, p.1177180117701028. Categories: climate change, TEK, Indigenous science,intergenerational knowledge, self-determination, collaboration, management, technical assistance, self-determination, soverignty	2017	Naitonal	Link
WHYTE, K. 2017. Way Beyond the Lifeboat: An Indigenous Allegory of Climate Justice. Categories: climate change, TEK, oral histories, Traditional knowledge, Oral transmission on knowledge, climate justice, social justice, community health, Indigenous science	2017	United States, International, Global	Link
Richler, Jen. 2017. Indigenous beliefs. Categories: climate change, TEK, traditional knowledge, Indigenous science, legislation, policy, planning, management	2017	Global	Link
Tengö, M., R. Hill, P. Malmer, C. M. Raymond, M. Spierenburg, F. Danielsen, T. Elmqvist, C. Folke. 2017. Weaving knowledge systems in IPBES, CBD and beyond—lessons learned for sustainability. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 26–27:17–25 Categories: climate change, TEK, traditional knowledge, knowledge transmission, management, planning, policy	2017	International	Link

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.