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 descending Year Geography Website
Norris, T., P. L. Vines, and E. M. Hoeffel, 2012: The American Indian and Alaska Native Population: 2010. 21 pp., U.S. Census Bureau. URL ↩

Categories: American Indian Population, tribe, indigenous

2012 United States
Northwest Climate Science Center. 2015. Annual Report.

Categories: Annual Report, Conservation, Science

2015 Northwest Link
Norton, David. 2002. Coastal sea ice watch: Private confessions of a convert to indigenous knowledge. In The Earth Is Faster Now. Indigenous Observations of Arctic Environmental Change. Igor Krupnik and Dyanna Jolly, eds. Fairbanks: ARCUS, pp. 127–155

Categories: climate change scenario, tribe, indigenous

2002
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
Novak, R.M., 2007, Climate variability and change in the Chuska Mountain area: impacts, information, and the intersection of western science and traditional knowledge. Unpublished Master’s thesis. University of Arizona.

Categories: local knowledge, Agriculture

2007 Southwest Link
NPR

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

2019 Puget Sound Link
NRCS/Native Practices Work Group. 2010. Indigenous Stewardship Methods and NRCS Conservation Practices Guidebook. USDA NRCS. 2010 National Link
NTGBC, 2011: National Tribal Green Building Codes Summit Statement. 2 pp., Tribal Green Building Codes Workgroup. URL ↩

Categories: Sustainability, tribe, indigenous

2011 United States
Nursey-Bray, M., Palmer, R., Chischilly, A.M., Rist, P., Yin, L. (2022). Tribal Capacity Building and Adaptation Planning: The United States. In: Old Ways for New Days. SpringerBriefs in Climate Studies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97826-6_4

Categories: tribal adaptation plan, climate change, ITEP Tribal Climate Change Program, mitigation, education

2022 National Link
O'rourke, Christian. 2017. With Chance the Rapper By His Side, This 16-Year-Old Activist & Rapper Is Setting Out to Change the Climate Game: Exclusive.

Categories: climate change, Earth Guardians, OCT, social justice, outreach, awareness, music, art, rap, hip hop,

2017 National, United States Link
Oguamanam, C. (2004) Localizing Intellectual Property in the Globalization Epoch: The Integration of Indigenous Knowledge”. Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 11:2

Categories: Protection of traditional knowledge, indigenous people, tribe, international law, international policy, intellectual property rights

2004 International Link
Ogunwole, S. U., 2006: We the People: American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States. Census 2000 Special Reports. CENSR-28. U.S. Census Bureau, Washington, D.C. URL

Categories: American Indian, Alaska Native, Demography, tribe, indigenous

2006 United States Link
Ojima, D., J. Steiner, S. McNeeley, K. Cozzetto, and A. Childress, 2013: Great Plains Regional Climate Assessment Technical Report, National Climate Assessment 2013., 301 pp. URL ↩

Categories: Great Plains, assessment

2013 Great Plains Link
Oliver-Smith, Anthony. 2009 Development and Dispossession: The Crisis of Forced Displacement and Resettlement. Santa Fe, New Mexico: School for Advanced Research Press.

Categories: Climate-induced displacement, resettlement, tribe, indigenous

2009 Southwest
Olp S (2011) Crow flooding: More than 200 Crow Reservation homes damaged, destroyed from flooding. Billings Gazette. June 15, 2011. Billings, MT

Categories: tribe, indigenous

2011
OPB

Categories: natural gas, policy and law, Jordan Cove, energy

2019 Oregon Link
Oregon Public Health Division. 2017. Climate and Health Equity.

Categories: climate change, human helth, equity, adaptation, mitigation, planning, policy, management

2017 Oregon, Northwest, Pacific Northwest Link
Oregon State Interactive Communications. 2016. Native Perspective: Oregon State University. 2016 Oregon, Western United States. Link
Oregon State University

Categories: Bees, fire, forests, climate change

2019 Pacific Northwest Link
Orlove, Ben, Lazrus, heather, Hovelsrud, Grete K., and Alessandra Giannini. 2014. Recognitions and Responsibilities. On the origins and consequences of the uneven attention to climate change around the world. Current Anthropology 55(3):249–261.

Categories: Climate change, anthropology, global warming

2014 Global Link
Orona, Brittani. “The Tolowa People Work With Western Science to Monitor Coastal Health.” KCET Environment, 4 Nov. 2018, www.kcet.org/shows/tending-nature/the-tolowa-people-work-with-western-science-to-monitor-coastal-health.

Categories: environment, monitoring, coastal health, TEK

2018 California Link
Ortiz, S. (1991) California Indian Basketweavers. In Special Report of News from Native California, v. 6, p. 13-36.

Categories: tribe, indigenous, Traditional Knowledge

1991
Osborn R. 2012. Climate Change and the Columbia River Treaty. Washington Journal of Environmental Law
& Policy. Vol 2.1. Pg. 75-123

Categories: Climate change, Columbia River Basin, Columbia River Treaty, hydropower, tribe, indigenous

2012 Northwest, Columbia River Basin, Oregon, Washington state Link
Osborn, Tim. 2013. Keynote Comments: Critical Needs for Community Resilience. Presentation at the Building Resilience Workshop IV: Adapting to Uncertainty Implementing Resilience in Times of Change. March 2-9, New Orleans, LA.

Categories: Sea Level Rise

2013 Southeast Link
Otis, D. S., 1973: Dawes Act and the Allotment of Indian Lands. University of Oklahoma Press, 206 pp.↩

Categories: Dawes Act, allotment, Indian Lands, tribe, indigenous

1973 United States
Overland, J. E., J. A. Francis, E. Hanna, and M. Wang, 2012: The recent shift in early summer Arctic atmospheric circulation. Geophysical Research Letters, 39, L19804, doi:10.1029/2012gl053268. URL ↩

Categories: Climate change

2012 Global Link
Owens, B. (2018, June 18). Virtual Reality Preserves Disappearing Land. Hakai Magazine. Retrieved July 3, 2018, from https://www.hakaimagazine.com/news/virtual-reality-preserves-disappearing-land/

Categories: sea level rise, virtual reality, climate change, erosion, relocation

2018 Louisiana Link
Oyate Omniciye: Oglala Lakota Plan. 2012. Available at: http://www.oglalalakotaplan.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Oyate-Omniciye-Final-.pdf

Categories: Adaptation Plan, Oglala Lakota Plan, Climate change, tribe, indigenous

2012 Southwest 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
Page, Samantha. 2017. Tribal, environmental groups sue over methane rule delay. ThinkProgress.

Categories: Trump Administration, climate change, tribes, legislation, policy, methane, BLM, emissions, standards

2017 United States Link