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
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
Bell-Sheeter, A. 2004. First Nations Food Sovereignty Assessment Tool. NAFSI.

Categories: sovereignty, food justice, natural, cultural resources, sustainability, self-sufficiency, economy

2004 United States, Canada Link
Redsteer, M. H. and Block, D., (2004) Drought conditions accelerate destabilization of sand dunes on the Navajo Nation, southern Colorado Plateau. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 36, No. 5, p. 171, Paper No. 66-8.

Categories: Navajo Nation, Drought, tribe, indigenous

2004 Southwest Link
Smith, Linda Tuhiwai 2004 Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples. London: Zed Books Ltd.

Categories: Research Methods, decolonization, indigenous methodologies, tribe, indigenous

2004 Global
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (2004). Broken Promises: Evaluating the Native American Health Care System, 155 p. https://www.usccr.gov/files/pubs/docs/nabroken.pdf

Categories: Health, civil rights, tribe, indigenous

2004 United States Link
POWTEC Environmental Services, LLC., 2005. Kasaan Bay Watershed Management Plan. Prepared for Organized Village of Kasaan Department of Natural Resources.

Categories: Southeast Alaska, watershed, hydrology, precipitation, butter clams, black seaweed, hooligan, herring, sea otter, salmon, fisheries, economy, water quality,

2005 Alaska Link
Norgaard, K. Marie, 2005: The Effects of Altered Diet on the Health of the Karuk People. 110 pp., Karuk Tribe of California. URL ↩

Categories: Traditional foods, climate chnage, Health, Karuk Tribe, tribe, indigenous

2005 Northwest
Strom, B. A. (2005) Pre-fire Treatment Effects and Post-Fire Forest Dynamics on the Rodeo-Chediski Burn Area, Arizona. M.S. Thesis, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff AZ, 131p.

Categories: Rodeo-Chediski Fire, White Mountain Apache Tribal lands (WMAT), fuel reduction treatments, prescribed burning, tribe, indigenous

2005
Anderson, K.M. (2005) Tending the Wild, Native American Knowledge and the Management of California’s Natural Resources: University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles California, 525p.

Categories: American Indian studies, Natural Resources, tribe, indigenous

2005 West/Southwest United States, California Link
Williams, T.; Hardison, P. 2005. Global climate change: environmental change and water law. Paper presented at the law seminars international conference What is Next for Washington Water Law? May 20, 2005

Categories: Cimate Change, indigenous peoples, water rights, Water Law, tribe, indigenous

2005 Northwest
Booth S, Zeller D, 2005: Mercury, food webs, and marine mammals: implications of diet and climate change for human health. Environmental Health Perspectives 113 (5):521

Categories: Climate change, Ecopath, Ecosim, Ecotracer, mercury, pollutant, trophic modeling

2005 Global Link
Brooks, N., Adger, W. N., & Kelly, P. M. (2005). The determinants of vulnerability and adaptive capacity at the national level and the implications for adaptation. Global environmental change, 15(2), 151-163.

Categories: vulnerability, adaptive capacity, Indicators, National-level, risk, mortality, Delphi survey, Governance, Literacy, Health

2005 Global
Cohen, F., Ed. (2005). Felix Cohen’s Handbook of Federal Indian Law.

Categories: tribe, indigenous, Indian Law

2005
Freeman, C., and M. A. Fox, 2005: Status and Trends in the Education of American Indians and Alaska Natives. NCES 2005–108. 160 pp., National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, Washington, D.C. URL

Categories: American Indians and Alaska Natives, Education, tribe, indigenous

2005 United States
Guo Q., Kelly, M., Graham, C H. (2005) Support vector machines for predicting distribution of sudden oak death in California. Ecological Modeling. Vol.182 No.1, p. 75-90.

Categories: Geographic information systems, Support vector machines, Potential disease spread, Sudden Oak Death

2005
Hesse, K., and E. Zerbetz, 2005: Aleutian Sparrow. Perfection Learning Corporation, 160 pp.

Categories: Aleutian Islands, Alaska, Aleut, Relocation, tribe, indigenous

2005 Alaska, Arctic
Hinzman, L. D. et al., 2005: Evidence and implications of recent climate change in Northern Alaska and other Arctic regions. Climatic Change, 72, 251-298, doi:10.1007/s10584-005-5352-2. URL ↩

Categories: Climate change, Alaska, Arctic

2005 Alaska, Arctic Link
Laska, Shirley, George Wooddell, Ronald Hagelman, Robert Grambling, and Monica Teets Farris. 2005. At Risk: The Human, Community, and Infrastructure Resources of Coastal Louisiana. Journal of Coastal Research 44:90–111.

Categories: Louisiana coastal restoration, coastal infrastructure, oil and gas infrastructure, coast al land loss, slow-onset hazard, shoreline protection, social impact assessment, tribe, indigenous

2005 Southeast
Nickels, S., C. Furgal, M. Buell, and H. Moquin, 2005: Unikkaaqatigiit: Putting the Human Face on Climate Change: Perspectives from Inuit in Canada. 129 pp., Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, Nasivvik Centre for Inuit Health and Changing Environments at Université Laval and the Ajunnginiq Centre at the National Aboriginal Health Organization, Ottawa.URL ↩

Categories: Climate change, Inuit, Canada, tribe, indigenous

2005 Canada, Arctic Link
Andre Alestine, Karst, Amanda, and Nancy J. Turner. 2006. Arctic and Subarctic Plants. In Handbook of North American Indians. Vol. 3. Environment, Origins, and Population. D.H. Ubelaker, ed. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, pp. 222–235.

Categories: Arctic, Subarctic, Plants

2006 Arctic, Subarctic
Austin, Diane. 2006 Cultural Exploitation, Land Loss and Hurricanes: A Recipe for Disaster. American Anthropologist 108(4):671-691.

Categories: Louisiana, petroleum development and extraction, environmental and community degradation

2006 Southeast Link
USDA, USFS

Categories: relations, tribes, land management, monitoring, resources, religious, cultural, consultation

2006 Northwest Link
De Wet, Chris, ed. 2006 Development-induced Displacement: Problems, Policies and People. New York: Berghahn Books.

Categories: Development-induced displacement, Refugee & Migration Studies, Development Studies, Theory & Methodology in Anthropology, tribe, indigenous

2006 Global Link
Ford, James D., Smit, Barry, and Johanna Wandel. 2006. Vulnerability to climate change in the Arctic: A case study from Arctic Bay, Canada. Global Environmental Change 16(2):145–160.

Categories: vulnerability, Adaptation, adaptive capacity, Arctic, Inuit, Climate change, environmental change, Communities, Climatic risks, tribe, indigenous

2006 Arctic, Canada
Gearheard, S., W. Matumeak, I. Angutikjuaq, J. Maslanik, H.P. Huntington, J. Leavitt, D. Matumeak Kagak, G. Tigullaraq, and R.G. Barry. 2006. “It’s Not That Simple”: A Collaborative Comparison of Sea Ice Environments, Their Uses, Observed Changes, and Adaptations in Barrow, Alaska, USA, and Clyde River, Nunavut, Canada. Ambio 35(4): 203–211.

Categories: Adaptation, Arctic, Climate, Conservation, Natural Resources, sea ice, Inuits, Seasons, tribe, indigenous

2006 Arctic
Guyot, M., C. Dickson, C. Paci, C. Furgal, and H. M. Chan, 2006: A study of two northern peoples and local effects of climate change on traditional food security. International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 65, 403-415, doi:10.3402/ijch.v65i5.18135. URL

Categories: Traditional foods, tribe, indigenous

2006 Arctic
Henkel, K. E., Dovidio, J. F., & Gaertner, S. L. (2006). Institutional discrimination, individual racism, and Hurricane Katrina. Analyses of social issues and public policy, 6(1), 99-124.

Categories: Institutional discrimination, individual racism, Hurricane Katrina

2006 Southeast Link
Kuenzi, A.M., (2006) Treatment Effects and Understory Plant community Response on the Rodeo-Chediski Fire, Arizona. M.S. Thesis, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, 87p.

Categories: Rodeo-Chediski Fire, White Mountain Apache Tribal lands (WMAT), Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests (A-S), pre-fire treatment, fire severity, tribe, indigenous

2006
Laidler, Gita J. 2006. Inuit and Scientific Perspectives on the Relationship between Sea Ice and Climate Change: The Ideal Complement? Climatic Change, 78 (2–4): 407–444.

Categories: Climate change, sea ice, Traditional Knowledge, Science, tribe, indigenous

2006 Arctic 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