Literature

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 Yearsort descending Category Geography Website
Willox, A. C. 2012. "Climate Change as the Work of Mourning." Ethics & the Environment 17(2): 137-164. 2012 mourning, vulnerability Link
Lazrus, Heather. 2012. Sea Change: Island Communities and Climate Change. Annual Review of Anthropology 41: 285-301. 2012 vulnerability, resilience, Adaptation, Migration, justice, sea of islands, Climate-induced displacement, Island communities, tribe, indigenous Global Link
Christensen, Miyase, Nillson, Annika E., and Nina Wormbs, eds. 2013. Media and the Politics of Arctic Climate Change. When the Ice Breaks. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. 2013 Climate change, Arctic, Science, Media, environmental change, Geopolitics Arctic Link
Tyrrell, Martina. 2013. Enacting and renewing identity, kinship and humanity on the sea ice. Polar Geography 36(1–2): 30–46. 2013 descriptive ethnography, sea ice, formation, transformation, and expression of social relationships, performance of identity, tribe, indigenous Arctic Link
Cochran, P., O. H. Huntington, C. Pungowiyi, S. Tom, S. F. Chapin, III, H. P. Huntington, N. G. Maynard, and S. F. Trainor, 2013: Indigenous frameworks for observing and responding to climate change in Alaska. Climatic Change, 120, 557-567, doi:10.1007/s10584-013-0735-2.↩ 2013 traditional knowledges, tribe, indigenous Alaska 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. 2013 Housing, tribe, indigenous United States Link
Cozzetto, K, Chief, K., Dittmer, K., Brubaker, M., Gough, R., Souza, K., Ettawageshik, F., Wotkyns, S., Opitz-Stapleton, S., Duren, S., Chavan, P., 2013: Climate change impacts on the water resources of American Indians and Alaska Natives in the US. Climatic Change, 120(3 special issue): 569-584. DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-0852-y 2013 water rights, tribal sovereignty, tribe, indigenous United States 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. 2013 drinking water, tribe, indigenous United States Link
Crippa, L. and Gordon, G. 2013. International Law Principles for REDD+: The rights of indigenous peoples and the obligations of REED+. Indian Law Resource Center working paper. 2013 American Indian Law, REDD+, Indingeous people, Rights, tribe, indigenous Global Link
US DOE: Office of the Assistant Secretary – Indian Affairs Office of Indian Energy and Economic Development. 2013. Tribal Energy Development Capacity Grant Program. Available at: http://www.indianaffairs.gov/cs/groups/public/documents/text/idc1-026611.pdf 2013 grant recipients United States Link
Vinyeta, Kirsten; Lynn, Kathy. 2013. Exploring the role of traditional ecological knowledge in climate change initiatives. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-879. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 37 p. 2013 traditional knowledges, climate change, tribe, Indigenous United States Link
Dittmer, K., 2013: Changing streamflow on Columbia basin tribal lands—climate change and salmon. Climatic Change, 120, 627-641, doi:10.1007/s10584-013-0745-0. URL ↩ 2013 Streamflow, Traditional foods, tribe, indigenous, Salmon Northwest Link
Voggesser G, Lynn K, Daigle J, Lake FK, Ranco D (2013) Cultural Impacts to Tribes from Climate Change Influences on Forests. Climatic Change. DOI # 10.1007/s10584-013-0733-4. 2013 Traditional Knowledge, Forest resources, Adaptation, Management, tribe, indigenous United States Link
DOE Office of Indian Energy. 2013 Fuel from Waste Helps Power Two Tribes. Indian Energy Beat Newsletter, Summer/Fall, pg. 3. http://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2013/11/f5/58723__NS_IE_Newsletter_SummerFall2013_FINAL.pdf 2013 Renewable energy, tribe, indigenous Southeast Link
Westman, Clinton N. 2013 Social Impact Assessment and the Anthropology of the Future in Canada’s Tar Sands. Human Organization 72(2):111-120. 2013 social impact assessment, tar sands, Anthropology of the Future, Canada, traditional land use Canada Link
Doyle J (2013) Exploring effects of climate change on Northern Plains American Indian health. Climatic Change 3: 643-655. 2013 Climate change, American Indian Health, Northern Plains, tribe, indigenous Link
Egeland G, Harrison G (2013) Health disparities: promoting Indigenous Peoples’ health through traditional food systems and self-determination. In: Kuhnlein H., Erasmus B., Spigelski D., Burlingame B. (Eds.) 2013. Indigenous Peoples’ food systems & well-being interventions and policies for healthy communities. 2013 Health, Traditional foods, self determination, tribe, indigenous Global Link
2013 climate change, anthropogenic, vulnerability, health, globe National Link
2013 climate change, Inuit, human health, environment, impacts Candada Link
Whyte, K. Powys, 2013: Justice forward: Tribes, climate adaptation and responsibility. Climatic Change, 120, 517-530, doi:10.1007/s10584-013-0743-2.↩ 2013 justice, responsibility, Adaptation, Soveregnity, tribe, indigenous United States
Fugate C. 2013. Changing laws for the better - recognizing tribal sovereignty. FEMA. Available at: https://www.fema.gov/blog/2013-01-31/changing-laws-better-recognizing-tribal-sovereignty 2013 Sovereignty, FEMA, Disasters, tribe, indigenous United States Link
Williams, T., & Hardison, P. (2013). Culture, law, risk and governance: contexts of traditional knowledge in climate change adaptation. Climatic Change, 120(3), 531-544. 2013 Traditional Knowledge, Adaptation, FPIC, tribe, indigenous Global Link
Gautam, M. R., K. Chief, and W. J. Smith, Jr., 2013: Climate change in arid lands and Native American socioeconomic vulnerability: The case of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe. Climatic Change, 120, 585-599, doi:10.1007/s10584-013-0737-0. URL ↩ 2013 vulnerability, adaptative capacity, tribe, indigenous Pyramid Lake Paiute Link
Willox, CA.; Landman, K.; Harper, S.L.; Edge, V.L.; Houle, K.; Ford, J. D. 2013. The land enriches the soul: On climatic and environmental change, affect, and emotional health and well-being in Rigolet, Nunatsiavut, Canada. Emotion, Space and Society. 6:14-24. 2013 Emotion, Climate change, environmental change, Health and well-being, Inuit, tribe, indigenous Arctic
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. 2013 Climate change, sea ice, Inuit, Traditional Knowledge, Oral history, tribe, indigenous Arctic Link
Grah, O., and J. Beaulieu, 2013: The effect of climate change on glacier ablation and baseflow support in the Nooksack River basin and implications on Pacific salmonid species protection and recovery. Climatic Change, 120, 657-670, doi:10.1007/s10584-013-0747-y.↩ 2013 traditional food, Salmon, tribe, indigenous Pacific Northwest Link
Hansen T. 2013. Eight Tribes that are way ahead of climate-adaptation Curve. Indian Country Today Media Network. Available at: http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/10/15/8-tribes-are-way-ahead-climate-adaptation-curve-151763 2013 Climate change, Adaptation, Mitigation, tribe, indigenous United States, Northwest, Southwest, Alaska Link
Hoover, E. 2013. Cultural and health implications of fish advisories in a Native American community. BioMed Central Ltd. 2013 Fish advisories, Native American, Mohawk, Haudenosaunee, PCBs, Superfund, St. Lawrence River, Health risk assessment, tribe, indigenous Northeast Link
ITEP. 2013. Fact Sheet- Black Carbon Alaska. EPA. 2013 Alaska Native Villages, Black Carbon, emissions, Climate Mitigation, human health, visibility, factsheet Alaska, Northwest, Pacific Northwest, West Coast, Global, Arctic, United States Link
Jacob, M.M. 2013. Yakama rising: indigenous cultural revitalization, activism, and healing. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. 2013 indigenous, tribe, cultural revitalization, activism, healing Northwest

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