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
Whyte, K. Powys, 2011: The recognition dimensions of environmental justice in Indian Country. Environmental Justice, 4, 185-186, doi:10.1089/env.2011.4401.↩

Categories: Environmental Justice, Native American environmental thought, environmental ethics, environmental policy, tribal governance, Indian environmental law, tribe, indigenous

2011 United States
The Dakota Access Pipeline, Environmental Injustice, and U.S. Colonialism. 2017. In Red Ink: An International Journal of Indigenous Literature, Arts, & Humanities.

Categories: environmental justice, social change, protest, demonstration, fossil fuel, capitalism, indigenous, sovereignty, self-determination, treaty rights

2017 Midwest, National, North Dakota Link
Middleton, BM. (2012) “Just Another Hoop to Jump Through?” Using Environmental Laws and Processes to Protect Indigenous RightsEnvironmental management. 52:5.

Categories: Environmental law Site protection Native American Indigenous Human rights Cultural resources, tribe, indigenous

2012
Marino, Elizabeth. 2012. The long history of environmental migration: Assessing vulnerability construction and obstacles to successful relocation in Shishmaref, Alaska. Global Environmental Change 22(2):374–381.

Categories: Environmental migration, vulnerability, Adaptation, Governance, Inequity, Alaska, tribe, indigenous

2012 Alaska, Arctic Link
EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) 2014 EPA to Assist Seminole Tribe of Florida Bolster Climate Resilience and Readiness. November 19. http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/C2F26C95B9833DE085257D950079C3A2

Categories: EPA, climate resilience, Seminole tribe, water utilities

2014 Southeast Link
Eilperin, J., Dennis, B. 2017. Trump moves decisively to wipe out Obama’s climate-change record. Trump moves decisively to wipe out Obama’s climate-change record

Categories: EPA, coal emissions, greenhouse gas regulations, energy, clean energy, alternative, climate change, mitigation, policy

2017 National, Global Link

Categories: EPA, superfund sites, data, tribal property, hazardous substances

National Link
Whyte, Kyle. 2015. The Ethics of Traditional Knowledge Exchange in Climate Change Initiatives. Earthzine.

Categories: Ethics, Traditional Knowledges (TKs), Climate Initiatives

2015 National, International Link
Pringle, Heather. 2017. In the Land of Lost Gardens. Hakai Magazine.

Categories: ethnobotany, TEK, traditional knowledge, plants, first foods, traditional foods,

2017 British Colombia, Canada, Pacific Northwest Link
Green, Carla. “Apocalyptic Threat': Dire Climate Report Raises Fears for California's Future.” The Guardian, 27 Aug. 2018, www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/27/california-climate-change-report-wildfires-jerry-brown.

Categories: extreme wildfires, climate change impacts, coastal erosion, rising temperatures, assessment

2018 California Link
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
Miller, Mark. 2004 Forgotten Tribes: Unrecognized Indians and the Federal Acknowledgment Process. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Categories: Federal Recognition, Federal Acknowledgment Process (FAP), tribal sovereignty, tribe, indigenous

2004 United States Link
Klopotek, Brian. 2011. Recognition Odysseys: Indigeneity, Race, and Federal Tribal Recognition Policy in Three Louisiana Indian Communities. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Categories: Federal Recognition, Louisiana, Tunica-Biloxi, Jena Choctaws, Clifton-Choctaws, tribe, indigenous

2011 Southeast
Roth, George. 2008. Recognition. In Indians in Contemporary Society. Ed. Garrick A. Bailey. Handbook of North American Indians. Vol. 2. William C. Sturtevant, general editor, pp. 113–128. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution.

Categories: Federal Recognition, tribe, indigenous

2008 United States
EPA. Climate Change and the Health of Indigenous Populations. Factsheet. 2016.

Categories: Federally recognized tribes, tribal organizations, Indian communities, Indian territories, biohazards, climate change, vulnerability assessment, adaptation, mitigation, coast, natural resources, food security, culture

2016 United States Link
Jolly, W.M.; Freeborn, P.H.; Page, W.G.; Butler, B.W. Severe Fire Danger Index: A Forecastable Metric to Inform Firefighter and Community Wildfire Risk Management. Fire 2019, 2, 47.

Categories: fire danger, firefighter safety, community fire risk, forecast, sever fire danger index

2019 Link
Michaels, M. (Ed.). (2018, November 29). Fires in Northern California Present Challenges to Native Tribes. WeatherNation. Retrieved December 07, 2018, from http://www.weathernationtv.com/news/fires-in-northern-california-present-challenges-to-native-tribes/

Categories: fire management, Karuk Tribe, aboriginal lands, land management, traditional foods, cultural resources

2018 Klamath River, Salmon River, Northern California Link
Peterson, D. L., McCaffrey, S. M., Patel-Weynand, T. (Eds.). (2022). Wildland Fire Smoke in the United States. Springer Cham https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87045-4

Categories: fire management, smoke, resource book, social issues

2022 National Link
Ensia

Categories: fire management, tribal knowledge, indigenous practices

2019 Global, Australia Link
Kerry L. Metlen, Carl N. Skinner, Derek R. Olson, Clint Nichols, Darren Borgias, Regional and local controls on historical fire regimes of dry forests and woodlands in the Rogue River Basin, Oregon, USA, Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 430, 2018, Pages 43-58, ISSN 0378-1127, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2018.07.010. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378112718303566)

Categories: fire management, wildfire management, forest restoration, plant health

2018 Southern Oregon, Rogue River Basin Link
Noorgard, Kari Marie. "Colonization, Fire Suppression, and Indigenous Resurgence in the Face of Climate Change." Yes Magazine!, 21 Oct. 2019, https://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/fire-climate-change-indigenous-colonization-20191021

Categories: fire suppression, colonization, prescribed burning, traditional management, traditional foods

2019 Northern California Link
Keyser, A.R, et al. "Predicting increasing high severity area burned for three forested regions in the western United States using extreme value theory" Forest Ecology and Management. 15 January, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2018.09.027

Categories: fire suppression, federal management, fire regimes, fire cycles, fire frequency

2019 Western United States, Rocky Mountains, Sierra Nevada Mountains, Southwest Link
LaPier, R. R. (2018, June 15). How Native American food is tied to important sacred stories. The Conversation. Retrieved July 2, 2018, from https://theconversation.com/how-native-american-food-is-tied-to-important-sacred-stories-97770?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest from The Conversation for June 15

Categories: first foods, indigenous food systems, salmon migration, salmon health, religion, culture and tradition, TK

2018 Washington state Link
Turner, N. J., R. Gregory, C. Brooks, L. Failing, and T. Satterfield. 2008. From invisibility to transparency: Identifying the implications. Ecology and Society 13(2): 7.

Categories: First Nations, decision making, resource use, negotiations, cultural values, tribe, indigenous

2008 Western North America
Hoover, E. 2013. Cultural and health implications of fish advisories in a Native American community. BioMed Central Ltd.

Categories: Fish advisories, Native American, Mohawk, Haudenosaunee, PCBs, Superfund, St. Lawrence River, Health risk assessment, tribe, indigenous

2013 Northeast Link
Gilles, Nathan. Threat of Salmon Extinction Turns Small Tribe Into Climate Researchers. Yes!Magazine. 2016.

Categories: fish havens, salmon heath, stream repopulation, watershed, temperature, climate change

2016 Washington state Link
NPR

Categories: fish, shellfish, clams, food source, climate change

2019 Puget Sound Link
Craig P. Paukert, Abigail J. Lynch, James E. Whitney. Effects of Climate Change on North American Inland Fishes: Introduction to the Special Issue. DOI. 2016.

Categories: fisheries, climate change, fish management, water management

2016 National Link
ITEP. 2013. Climate Change and Fisheries: What it means to tribes and how we can adapt.

Categories: fishery, water health, climate adaptation, resource management, fact sheet

2013 United States Link
Missoulian

Categories: Flathead River, landscapes, Federal, land management, administration

2019 Flathead River, United States Link