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 descending Geography Website
McLean, Kirsty Galloway, Ameyali Ramos-Castillo, Tony Gross, Sam Johnston, Marjo Vierros, and Rahera Noa 2009. Report of the Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit on Climate Change. April 20-24. Anchorage, Alaska. United Nations University—Traditional Knowledge Initiative, Darwin, Australia.

Categories: Traditional Knowledge, Global Summit, tribe, indigenous

2009 Global
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
Papiez, C., 2009: Climate Change Implications for the Quileute and Hoh Tribes of Washington: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Assessing Climatic Disruptions to Coastal Indigenous Communities. Master’s Thesis, Environmental Studies. The Evergreen State College, 119 pp. URL

Categories: Climate change, Quileute and Hoh Tribes, Coastal Tribes, Northwest, Traditional Knowledge, tribe, indigenous

2009 Northwest Link
Parkinson, A. J., and B. Evengård, 2009: Climate change, its impact on human health in the Arctic and the public health response to threats of emerging infectious diseases. Global Health Action, 2, doi:10.3402/gha.v2i0.2075. URL

Categories: Climate change, Health, Arctic, infectious diseases

2009 Arctic Link
Pearce, Tristan D., Ford, James D., Laidler, Gita J., Smit, Barry, Duerden, Frank Duerden, Allarut, Mishak, Andrachuk, Mark, Baryluk, Steven, Dialla, Andrew, Elee, Pootoogoo, Goose, Annie, Ikummaq, Theo, Joamie, Eric, Kataoyak, Fred, Loring, Eric, Meakin, Stephanie, Scott Nickels, Scot, Shappa, Kip, Shirley, Jamal, and Johanna Wandel. 2009. Community collaboration and climate change research in the Canadian Arctic. Polar Research 28(1):10–27.

Categories: Adaptation, Canadian Arctic, Climate change, community–researcher collaboration, Inuit, vulnerability, tribe, indigenous

2009 Arctic Link
Pungowiyi, C., 2009: Siberian Yup'ik Elder, personal communication. 2009
Roncoli, Carla, Crane Todd, and Ben Orlove. 2009. Fielding Climate Change in Cultural Anthropology. In Anthropology and Climate Change: From Encounters to Actions. S.A. Crate and M. Nuttall, eds. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, pp. 87–115.

Categories: Climate change, global warming

2009 Link
Salazar, Ken. 2009. Interior Secretarial Order 3289, “Addressing the Impacts of Climate Change on America’s Water, Land, and other Natural and Cultural Resources.” Available at: http://www.doi.gov//whatwedo/climate/strategy/index.cfm.

Categories: Secretarial order

2009 Link
Sloan, K. (2009). Climate Change Issues & Needs for the Yurok Tribe. Impacts of Climate Change on Tribes in the United States, National Tribal Air Association. Attachment L.

Categories: Yurok tribe, tribe, indigenous, Climate change

2009
Swinomish Indian Tribal Community. 2009. Swinomish Climate Change Initiative Impact Assessment Technical Report.

Categories: Impact Assessment, Vulnerability Assessment, tribe, indigenous

2009 Northwest
Mekbeb, E.T., Lilieholm, R.J., Blahna, D.J. and Kruger, L.E., 2009. Resource use, dependence and vulnerability: community-resource linkages on Alaska's Tongass National Forest. Ecosystems and Sustainable Development, 122, pp.263-272.

Categories: Southeast Alaska, social change, policy, economics, ecosystem management, environmental services, timber-dependent communities, resilience, social capital, sustainable development, rural, natural resources, Alaska Native, village, cultural resources, subsistence, planning, human rights, social justice, Native rights

2009 Alaska Link
Sanchez-Cortes, M.S. and Chavero, E.L. (2010) Indigenous Perception of Changes in Climate Variability and its Relationship with Agriculture in a Zoque Community, Chiapas, Mexico. Climatic Change, DOI 10.1007/s1584-010-9972-9.

Categories: perceptions climate knowledge changes in climate variability chichón Volcano Zoque indigenous, tribe

2010 International Link
Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, 2010: Swinomish Climate Change Initiative Climate Adaptation Action Plan. 144 pp., Swinomish Indian Tribal Community Office of Planning and Community Development, La Conner, WA. URL ↩

Categories: Swinomish, Adaptation Plan, tribe, indigenous

2010 Northwest Link
Sydell, L., 2010: FCC Eyes Broadband for Indian Reservations. NPR News. URL ↩

Categories: Reservations, Telecommunications, tribe, indigenous

2010 United States Link
The Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) 2010. Fact Sheet: Women, Disasters, and Hurricane Katrina.

Categories: Violence against women, Disasters, Hurricane Katrina

2010 Southeast
Upagiaqtavut. Setting the Course. Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation in Nunavut. 2010. Iqaluit: Government of Nunavut.

Categories: tribe, indigenous

2010
Verbrugge, L., 2010: Traditional Foods in Alaska: Potential Threats from Contaminants and Climate Change. State of Alaska Division of Public Health. URL ↩

Categories: traditional food, Climate change, tribe, indigenous

2010 Alaska, Arctic
Wisniewski, Josh. 2010. Knowing about Sigu: Kigiqtaamiut hunting as an experiential pedagogy. ). In SIKU: Knowing Our Ice. Documenting Inuit Sea Ice Knowledge and Use. Igor Krupnik, Claudio Aporta, Shari Gearheard, Gita J. Laidler, and Lene Kielsen Holm, eds. Dorderecht: Springer, pp. 275–294.

Categories: tribe, indigenous

2010
Bjørst, Lill R. 2010. The tip of the iceberg: Ice as the non-human actor in the climate change debate. Études/Inuit/Studies 34(1): 134–150.

Categories: environmental change, Inuit, framing, framing of climate change, tribe, indigenous

2010 Arctic, Global Link
Bronen R., 2010. Forced Migration of Alaskan Indigenous Communities Due to Climate Change, T. Afifi and J. Jager (editors) Environment Forced Migration and Social Vulnerability, International Organization of Migration.

Categories: Climate-induced displacement, Climate change, Migration, Alaska, tribe, indigenous

2010 Alaska, Arctic Link
Kofinas, G., F.S. Chapin, S. BurnSilver, J. Schmidt, N. Fresco, K. Kielland, S. Martin, A. Springsteen, and T.S. Rupp. 2010. Resilience of Athabascan subsistence systems to interior Alaska’s changing climate. Canadian Journal of Forest Resouces. 40: 1347-1359.

Categories: Indigenous Food Systems, Resilience, Climate Impacts, Athabascan Peoples, Subsistence Gathering

2010 Alaska Link
Bronen R., 2010. Forced Migration of Alaskan Indigenous Communities Due to Climate Change, T. Afifi and J. Jager (editors) Environment Forced Migration and Social Vulnerability, International Organization of Migration.

Categories: Climate-induced displacement, social vulnerability, tribe, indigenous

2010 Alaska, Arctic
Bronen, R. (2010). Forced migration of Alaskan indigenous communities due to climate change. In Environment, forced migration and social vulnerability (pp. 87-98). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

Categories: Alaska, indigenous people, tribe, Shishmaref, Kivalina, Shaktoolik, Newtok, Relocation, displacement, climate-induced migration, climigration

2010 Arctic, Alaska Link
Burley, David. 2010 Losing Ground: Identity and Land Loss in Coastal Louisiana. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.

Categories: Coastal zone management, Louisiana, Coastal settlements, Coast changes, Gulf Coast Region, Place attachment, Identity, tribe, indigenous

2010 Southeast Link
Jacobs, T., Alston, S. and Lynn, K. (Ed).

Categories: Law, Natural Resources, Sovereignty

2010 National Link
Collins, G., M. H. Redsteer, M. Hayes, M. Svoboda, D. Ferguson, R. Pulwarty, D. Kluck, and C. Alvord, 2010: Climate change, drought and early warning on western Native lands workshop report. National Integrated Drought Information System. Climate Change, Drought and Early Warning on Western Native Lands Workshop, 7. URL ↩

Categories: Drought, early warning, Western US, tribe, indigenous

2010 Western United States
NRCS/Native Practices Work Group. 2010. Indigenous Stewardship Methods and NRCS Conservation Practices Guidebook. USDA NRCS. 2010 National Link
Davis, S. H. (2010) Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change. The International Indigenous Policy Journal, Vol. 1 Article 2, p.1-19. Retrieved from: http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/iipj/vol1/iss1/2

Categories: indigenous, tribe, Climate change, green house gas emissions

2010 United States Link
Bednarski, J. 2010. Klawock Lake Subsistence Sockeye Salmon Project 2009 Annual and Final Report. Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Division of Commercial Fisheries, Juneau, Alaska.
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Categories: Southeast Alaska, fisheries, watershed, habitat, salmon, restoration, subsistence, commercial, sockeye, Tlingit, Klawock, hatchery

2010 Alaska Link
Sub-Cabinet, C.C., 2010. Alaska's climate change strategy: addressing impacts in Alaska. Final draft report by the adaptation advisory group.

Categories: Southeast Alaska, subsistence, mitigation, adaptation, relocation, economy, (endangered) traditional culture, Elders, traditional knowledge, TEK, traditional foods, fishing, fisheries, climate science, climate projections, vulnerability assessment

2010 Alaska Link