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 Sort ascending Year Geography Website
United States Forest Service. 2017. Tribal Relations News and Events, Summer 2017.

Categories: Tribal relations, collaboration, interagency, federal assistance, trust relationship, Shawnee, Tlingit, Cherokee, Hopi, Apache, huckleberries

2017 Washington state, Oklahoma, National, United States Link
United Nations. n.d. Backgrounder: Climate change and indigenous peoples.

Categories: Climate Impacts on Indigenous Peoples, Policy, Adaptation, Mitigation

2007 International Link
United Nations. 2000. Special Rapporteur on the right to food.

Categories: food justice, accessibility, resource allocation, availability, social justice, human rights

2000 International, Global Link
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (2014) "Report on the meeting on available tools for the use of indigenous and traditional knowledge and practices for adaptation, needs of local and indigenous communities and the application of gender-sensitive approaches and tools for adaptation"

Categories: traditional knowledges, Adaptation, gender, tribe, indigenous

2014 Global Link
UNFCCC. 1992. United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. New York: United Nations - http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/convkp/conveng.pdf (accessed April 14, 2015). 1992
UNEP, 2007: Global Outlook for Ice and Snow. United Nations Environment Programme. URL ↩

Categories: Snow, sea ice, Ice Sheets, Glaciers and Ice Caps, Frozen Ground, River and Lake Ice, policy

2003 Global Link
Underwater: Rising Seas, Chronic Floods, and the Implications for US Coastal Real Estate. (2018). Union of Concerned Scientists, 1-28. Retrieved July 11, 2018, from https://www.cakex.org/documents/underwater-rising-seas-chronic-floods-and-implications-us-coastal-real-estate

Categories: disaster risk management, infrastructure, flooding, sea level rise, capacity building, monitoring, climate change, adaptation

2018 US coastlines Link
UN Denounces Abuse of Free Assembly Rights for Water Protectors Standing Against DAPL. ICTMN. 2016.

Categories: climate change, fossil fuels, carbon emissions, civil rights, self-determination, sovereignty, planning, policy, international law, water, oil, pipeline

2016 North Dakota, Midwest, National Link
UCAR congressional briefing highlights flood, drought prediction: Nation poised to make major advances in "water intelligence". UCAR. 2016.

Categories: traditional knowledge, indigenous, climate science, water health, water rights, protection

2016 National Link
Ubelaker, Douglas H., ed. 2006. Handbook of North American Indians. Vol. 3. Environment, Origins, and PopulationWashington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, pp. 222–235.

Categories: tribe, indigenous

2006
UBC News. 2016. Climate change could cut First Nations fisheries’ catch in half.

Categories: Salmon, Herring, Population Decline, Climate Impacts

2016 Northwest, International (Canada), British Columbia Link
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency [USEPA] (2013) Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs Survey: American Indian and Alaska Native Village Water Systems Survey. USEPA, Drinking Water Protection Division, Washington, DC.

Categories: drinking water, tribe, indigenous

2013 United States Link
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (2014) Assessment of American Indian Housing Needs and Programs: Final Report. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research, Washington DC.

Categories: Housing, tribe, indigenous

2014 United States Link
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (2013) Assessment of American Indian
Housing Needs and Programs: Final Report. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research, Washington DC.

Categories: Housing, tribe, indigenous

2013 United States Link
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (1996) Assessment of American Indian Housing Needs and Programs: Final Report. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research, Washington DC.

Categories: American Indian, Housing, tribe, indigenous

1996 United States
U.S. Department of Energy Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs. 2016. DOE Office of Indian Energy Strategic Roadmap 2025: Energy.gov/indianenergy.

Categories: Energy Development, Energy Deployment, Energy, Infrastructure, Development.

2016 National Link
U.S. Congress (1830) Twenty-First Congress. Session I. Chapter 148. Statute I. May 28. In A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875, Statutes at Large, 21st Congress, 1st Session, http://memory.loc.gov/ 1830
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 2003: A Quiet Crisis: Federal Funding and Unmet Needs in Indian Country. 139 pp.URL ↩

Categories: tribe, indigenous, federal funding

2003
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (2004). Broken Promises: Evaluating the Native American Health Care System, 155 p. https://www.usccr.gov/files/pubs/docs/nabroken.pdf

Categories: Health, civil rights, tribe, indigenous

2004 United States Link
U.S. Census Bureau, 1995: Housing of American Indians on Reservations - Plumbing. Bureau of the Census Statistical Brief, Issued April 1995, SB/95-9. 4 pp., U.S. Census Bureau, Washington, D.C. URL ↩

Categories: Housing, Plumbing, Reservation, tribe, indigenous

1995 United States
U.S. Census Bureau, 1995: Housing of American Indians on Reservations - Equipment and Fuels. Bureau of the Census Statistical Brief, Issued April 1995, SB/95-11. 4 pp., U.S. Census Bureau, Washington, D.C. URL ↩

Categories: Housing, Equipment and Fuels, Reservation, tribe, indigenous

1995 United States
Tyrrell, Martina. 2013. Enacting and renewing identity, kinship and humanity on the sea ice. Polar Geography 36(1–2): 30–46.

Categories: descriptive ethnography, sea ice, formation, transformation, and expression of social relationships, performance of identity, tribe, indigenous

2013 Arctic Link
Turner, R.E. (1997) Wetland Loss in the Northern Gulf Of Mexico: Multiple Working Hypotheses. 1997 Link
Turner, N.J., and H. Clifton, 2009: “It’s so different today”: Climate change and indigenous lifeways in British Columbia, Canada. Global Environmental Change 19:180–190.

Categories: Climate change, indigenous peoples, traditional ecological knowledge, British Columbia, Adaptation, resilience, tribe, indigenous

2009 Canada 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
Tulalip, Swinomish Preserve Forest and Salmon Habitat With Two Significant Initiatives. Indian Country Toady. 2015.

Categories: Conservation, coastal habitat, wetlands, habitat restoration, climate adaptation

2015 Northwest, Pacific Northwest, Puget Sound, Washington, West coasr Link
Tsosie, R. 2007. Indigenous People and Environmental Justice: The Impact of Climate Change, University of Colorado Law Review, Vol. 78, p. 1625-1677.

Categories: Climate change, Environment, tribe, indigenous, Environmental Justice

2007 Global Link
Tsosie R (2013) Climate change and indigenous peoples: Comparative models of sovereignty. In: Abate RS, Kronk EA (eds) Climate change and indigenous peoples: The search for legal remedies. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp 79–95

Categories: Soveregnity, cultural soveregnity, political soveregnity, tribal rights, indigenous peoples, tribe, indigenous

2013 Global
Trump Administration. 2017. Fiscal Year 2018 The Interior Budget in Brief May 2017.

Categories: Trump administration, budget, resource, allocation, financial assistance, budget cuts, programming

2017 National Link
Trosper, R.L., 2007. Indigenous influence on forest management on the Menominee Indian Reservation. Forest ecology and management, 249(1), pp.134-139. 2007 Wisconsin Link