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 Sort ascending	Geography	Website
LaDuke, Winona. 2016. The Rights of Nature (video). University of Oregon: EMU Ballroom. Categories: climate achange, fossil fuel, capitalism, pieline, protest, resistance, sovereignty, self-determination, treaty rights	2016	National	Link
EPA. Climate Change, Health, and Environmental Justice. Factsheet. 2016. Categories: social justice, climate change, socioeconomic, race, citizenship, low-income, biohazard, accessibility, education	2016	International, United States	Link
USFWS. 2016. The Service's: Native American Policy. 510 FW 1. Categories: Policy, Conservation, Cultural Resources, Federal-Tribal Collaboration	2016	National	Link
Blumm, M.C., 2016. Indian Treaty Fishing Rights and the Environment: Affirming the Right to Habitat Protection and Restoration. 92 Washington Law Review 1. Categories: climate change, environmental protection, fisheries, settler colonialism, habitat restoration, human health, community action, social justice, youth justice, policy	2016	United States, Pacific Northwest, Washington state, Oregon, California	Link
Bronen, R. 2016. Climate Displacement Preparation and Planning in: Leckie, S.and Huggins, C. (editors) Repairing Domestic Displacement Peninsula Principles Taylor and Francis: New York. Categories: Climate-induced displacement, tribe, indigenous	2016	International, National, Alaska	Link
Carolyn van Houten. The First Official Climate Refugees in the U.S. Race Against Time. 2016. National Geographic Online. Categories: Climate Adaptation, Relocation, Climate Refugee, Isle de Jean Charles, Isle de Jean Charles band of the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Tribe	2016	Southeast, Gulf of Mexico	Link
Federal Treaty and Trust Obligations, and Ocean Acidification. Robert T. Anderson, University of Washington School of Law, June 1, 2016. Washington Journal of Environmental Law & Policy, Vol. 6, No. 2, Pp. 474-95 (2016) University of Washington School of Law Research Paper 2016-17. Categories: land action, tribal lands, water health, environmental protection, tribal territories, protection of rights, advocacy, trust responsibility	2016	National, International	Link
Young people facing climate change. Native America Calling. 2016. Categories: climate science, climate change, fire hazard, food security, weather patterns	2016	National, International	Link
Jeff Smith. 2016. Rising Voices melds indigenous, western science perspectives. UCAR AtmosNews. Categories: Climate Science, Collaboration, Climate Impacts	2016	National, International	Link
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
Norton-Smith, Kathryn; Lynn, Kathy; Chief, Karletta; Cozzetto, Karen; Donatuto, Jamie; Hiza Redsteer, Margaret; Kruger, Linda E.; Maldonado, Julie; Viles, Carson; Whyte, Kyle P. 2016. Climate change and indigenous peoples: a synthesis of current impacts and experiences. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-944. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 136 p. Categories: climate change, adaptation, TEK, traditional knowledge, mitigation, sovereignty,	2016	National	Link
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
US Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources.2016. Senators Work to Improve Forest Management and Wildfire Budgeting. Press Release. Categories: Wildfire, Forest Management, Natural Resource Management	2016	National	Link
Landis, Ben. Art Helps a Scientific Collaboration Come to Life. TEE. 2016. Categories: Dine, Navajo Nation, NASA, climate science, risk assessment, weather patterns, natural disasters, hazards	2016	National, Navajo territories, and Midwest	Link
EPA. Climate Change and the Health of Occupational Groups. Factsheet. 2016. Categories: immigrant workers, climate change, seasonal farmworker, wildfires, education, preparation, safety, occupational risks, biohazard	2016	United States, International	Link
McDonald, Rachael. Siletz Tribe Acquires Salmon Habitat On Central Coast. 2016. Categories: salmon, marine, estuary, wetlands, food sovereignty	2016	Oregon Coast	Link
Weatherdon, J.; Ota, Y.; Jones, M.; Close, D.; Cheung, W.2016. Projected Scenarios for Coastal First Nations’ Fisheries Catch Potential under Climate Change: Management Challenges and Opportunities. PLoS ONE. 11: e0145285. Categories: Traditional Knowledges, Site-Specific Mitigation and Adaptation, Joint-Management, Salmon, Species Decline, Species Range Shift	2016	Northwest, International (Canada), British Columbia	Link
United States, Congress, Federal Highway Administration. “Climate Change and Environmental Justice: Considerations for Transportation Decision-Making.” Climate Change and Environmental Justice: Considerations for Transportation Decision-Making, 2016. Categories: highways, transportation, climate change, climate change impacts, environmental justice, equity	2016	National	Link
Tania Schoennagel, Penny Morgan, Jennifer Balch, Philip Dennison, Brian Harvey, Richard Hutto, Meg Krawchuk, Max Moritz, Ray Rasker, and Cathy Whitlock. 2016. Insights from wildfire science: a resource for fire policy discussions. Categories: Wildfire, Climate Adaptation	2016	National	Link
V. Savo, D. Lepofsky, J. P. Benner, K. E. Kohfeld, J. Bailey & K. Lertzman. 2016. Observations of climate change among subsistence-oriented communities around the world. Nature Climate Change 6, 462–473. Categories: Scientific Data, Climate Data, Public Perception, Subsistence-oriented Communities, Meta-study	2016	International	Link
Alaskan village votes to relocate over global warming. CNN. 2016. Categories: Alaska, Climate change, coastal erosion, sea level, tradition,	2016	Pacific Northwest, Arctic, Alaska, United States	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
EPA. Climate Change and the Health of Older Adults. Factsheet. 2016. Categories: elders, elderly, seniors, disabilities, climate change, biohazard, health risks	2016	United States, International	Link
Swanston, Christopher W. Janowiak, Maria K. Brandt, Leslie A. Butler, Patricia R. Handler, Stephen D. Shannon, P. Danielle Derby Lewis, Abigail Hall, Kimberly Fahey, Robert T. Scott, Lydia Kerber, Angela Miesbauer, Jason W. Darling, Lindsay. Forest Adaptation Resources: Climate Change Tools and Approaches for Land Managers, 2nd Edition. USDA. 2016.	2016	National	Link
Terri Hansen. 2016. 'Extreme Heat Week' Combats Climate Change With Resilience Strategies for Tribes. Indian Country Today Media Network. Categories: Climate Adaptation, Climate Impacts, Indigenous Peoples, Drought	2016	National	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
Whyte, Kyle, Indigenous Food Systems, Environmental Justice, and Settler-Industrial States (April 25, 2016). 2015. In Global Food, Global Justice: Essays on Eating under Globalization. Edited by M. Rawlinson & C. Ward, 143-156, Cambridge Scholars Publishing.. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2770094 Categories: Environmental Justice, Injustice, Food Systems, Detroit, Philosophy	2016	National	Link
EPA. Climate Change and the Health of People with Disabilities. Factsheet. 2016. Categories: disability, disabled, health risks, accessibility, biohazards, resources, climate change	2016	United States, International	Link
Climate Change Adaptation: Traditional Knowledge of Indigenous Peoples Inhabiting the Arctic and Far North. UNESCO. 2016. Categories: Traditional knowledge, Indigeneity, climate change, mitigation, adaptation	2016	International	Link
Swanson, M, Trainor, F. 2016. Current Coastal Change Research/Management Projects and Priority Information Needs in from Cook Inlet through Southeastern Alaska Categories: Southeast Alaska, climate change, coastal, erosion, marine, management, research	2016	Alaska	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.