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
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. Categories: traditional knowledges, climate change, tribe, Indigenous	2013	United States	Link
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 Categories: Sovereignty, FEMA, Disasters, tribe, indigenous	2013	United States	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. Categories: Traditional Knowledge, Forest resources, Adaptation, Management, tribe, indigenous	2013	United States	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 ↩ Categories: vulnerability, adaptative capacity, tribe, indigenous	2013	Pyramid Lake Paiute	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. Categories: social impact assessment, tar sands, Anthropology of the Future, Canada, traditional land use	2013	Canada	Link
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. Categories: Climate change, sea ice, Inuit, Traditional Knowledge, Oral history, tribe, indigenous	2013	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.↩ Categories: traditional food, Salmon, tribe, indigenous	2013	Pacific Northwest	Link
Whyte, K. Powys, 2013: Justice forward: Tribes, climate adaptation and responsibility. Climatic Change, 120, 517-530, doi:10.1007/s10584-013-0743-2.↩ Categories: justice, responsibility, Adaptation, Soveregnity, tribe, indigenous	2013	United States
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 Categories: Climate change, Adaptation, Mitigation, tribe, indigenous	2013	United States, Northwest, Southwest, Alaska	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. Categories: Traditional Knowledge, Adaptation, FPIC, tribe, indigenous	2013	Global	Link
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
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. Categories: Emotion, Climate change, environmental change, Health and well-being, Inuit, tribe, indigenous	2013	Arctic
Jacob, M.M. 2013. Yakama rising: indigenous cultural revitalization, activism, and healing. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. Categories: indigenous, tribe, cultural revitalization, activism, healing	2013	Northwest
Categories: climate change, anthropogenic, vulnerability, health, globe	2013	National	Link
James D. Ford , Graham McDowell , Jamal Shirley , Mike Pitre , Richard Siewierski , William Gough , Frank Duerden , Tristan Pearce , Peter Adams & Sara Statham (2013) The Dynamic Multiscale Nature of Climate Change Vulnerability: An Inuit Harvesting Example, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 103:5, 1193-1211, DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2013.776880 Categories: adaptive capacity, Climate change, harvesting, human dimensions, Inuit, Iqaluit, methodology, vulnerability, tribe, indigenous	2013	Alaska	Link
Categories: climate change, Inuit, human health, environment, impacts	2013	Candada	Link
Lantz L. Appelbaum L. 2013. Final Report Sustainable Construction in Indian Country Initiative. Prepared for: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research. Categories: Sustainability, tribe, indigenous	2013	United States
Driscoll, D.L., Sunbury, T., Johnston, J. and Renes, S., 2013. Initial findings from the implementation of a community-based sentinel surveillance system to assess the health effects of climate change in Alaska. International journal of circumpolar health, 72(1), p.21405. Categories: Southeast Alaska, climate change, Alaska Native villages, climate change surveillance, observations, policy, community, community activism, community participation, social change, climate science, water security, food security, changed social activities, reduced activities	2013	Alaska	Link
Larson, A. M., Brockhaus, M., Sunderlin, W. D., Duchelle, A., Babon, A., Dokken, T., ... & Huynh, T. B. (2013). Land tenure and REDD+: the good, the bad and the ugly. Global Environmental Change, 23(3), 678-689. Categories: Community forestry, Forest tenure reform, indigenous peoples, Tenure security, Property rights, Customary rights, tribe, indigenous	2013	Global	Link
Laska, Shirley and Kristina Peterson. 2013. Between Now and Then: Tackling the Conundrum of Climate Change. CHART Publications. Paper 32: 5 -8. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/chart_pubs/32 Categories: Coastal Louisiana, Sea Level Rise, Climate change, tribe, indigenous	2013	Southeast	Link
Lovecraft, Amy L. 2013. The human geography of Arctic sea ice: Introduction. Polar Geography 36 (1–2):1–4. Categories: Arctic, sea ice	2013	Arctic	Link
Lynn, K., J. Daigle, J. Hoffman, F. Lake, N. Michelle, D. Ranco, C. Viles, G. Voggesser, and P. Williams, 2013: The impacts of climate change on tribal traditional foods. Climatic Change, 120, 545-556, doi:10.1007/s10584-013-0736-1.↩ Categories: traditional food, Place, Culture, Adaptation, tribe, indigenous	2013	United States	Link
Maldonado, J. Koppel, C. Shearer, R. Bronen, K. Peterson, and H. Lazrus, 2013: The impact of climate change on tribal communities in the US: Displacement, relocation, and human rights. Climatic Change, 120, 601-614, doi:10.1007/s10584-013-0746-z.↩ Categories: displacement, Relocation, human rights, tribe, indigenous	2013	United States, Alaska, Southeast	Link
Kathy Lynn. Fostering Tribal Engagement in Climate Science Centers and Landscape Conservation Cooperatives. 2012. Categories: Climate Science Center, Landscape Conservation Cooperatives, tribal engagement, climate initiatives	2012	National, United States	Link
Coastal Louisiana Tribal Communities, 2012: Stories of Change: Coastal Louisiana Tribal Communities’ Experiences of a Transforming Environment (Grand Bayou, Grand Caillou/Dulac, Isle de Jean Charles, Pointe-au-Chien). Workshop Report Input into the National Climate Assessment. URL ↩ Categories: Coastal Louisiana, Climate change, assessment, Adaptation, tribe, indigenous	2012	Southeast
Raftery M. 2012. Wind Storm: Tribes Implore President Obama To Stop Ocotillo Express Wind Project, Save Cultural Resource Sites Available At: http://www.eastcountymagazine.org/wind-storm-tribes-implore-president-obama-stop-ocotillo-express-wind-project-save-cultural-resource Categories: Renewable energy, tribe, indigenous	2012		Link
Donoghue, E. and Lynn, K. 2012. A Guide for Tribal Leaders on U.S. Climate Change Programs. Categories: Government programs, adaptation, mitigation, research	2012	National	Link
Draut, A.E., Redsteer, M. Hiza and Amoroso, L., 2012, Recent seasonal variations in arid landscape cover and aeolian sand mobility, Navajo Nation, southwestern U.S.; Climates, Landscapes, and Civilizations Geophysical Union Monograph Series 198, p 51-60. Categories: Drought, Aird Landscapes, Navajo Nation, Southwest, tribe, indigenous	2012	Southwest
Riley, R., P. Blanchard, R. Peppler, T. M. Bull Bennett, and D. Wildcat, 2012: Oklahoma Inter-Tribal Meeting on Climate Variability and Change: Meeting Summary Report. 23. URL ↩ Categories: Climate change, American Indians, tribe, indigenous	2012	United States
Farbotko, Carol, and Heather Lazrus 2012 The First Climate Refugees? Contesting Global Narratives of Climate Change in Tuvalu. Global Environmental Change 22:382–390. Categories: Climate-induced displacement, Climate refugees, Migration, Adaptation, Everyday practice, Tuvalu, tribe, indigenous	2012	Global	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.