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 Geography Website
Barrera, S. 2017. Cherokee playwright tackles love, climate change at Autry.

Categories: playwright, theater, climate justice, climate change, court, law, legislation, planning, policy

2017 United States Link
Leigh Brown, Patricia. 2017. Traditions Revived at a Tribal Culture Camp. The New York Times

Categories: PNW, culture

2017 Pacific Northwest, California Link
Rising Voices: Collaborative Science for Climate Solutions. 2015. Recommendations to the UNFCCC 21st Conference of Parties.

Categories: Policy, Adaptation, Climate Impacts, Indigenous Peoples

2015 National Link
USFWS. 2016. The Service's: Native American Policy. 510 FW 1.

Categories: Policy, Conservation, Cultural Resources, Federal-Tribal Collaboration

2016 National Link
Vinyeta, Kirsten and Kathy Lynn. 2015. Strengthening the Federal-Tribal Relationship: A Report on Monitoring Consultation under the Northwest Forest Plan. Report Submitted as part of Northwest Forest Plan 20 Year Reports. FS/R6/PNW/2015/0005.

Categories: Policy, Northwest Forest Plan, Consultation, Co-Management, Natural Resource Management, Forestry

2015 Northwest Link
Harris, Gary; Lynn, Kathy; MacKendrick, Katie; Satein, Hannah; University of Oregon (UO) Resource Innovation Group; UO Institute for a Sustainable Environment. 2011. Effectiveness of the Federal-Tribal Relationship. Report Submitted as part of Northwest Forest Plan 15 Year Reports. R6-RPM-TP-01-2011.

Categories: Policy, Northwest Forest Plan, Consultation, Co-Management, Natural Resource Management, Forestry

2011 Northwest Link
Begay, Jade, and Ayşe Gürsöz. “Why Defending Indigenous Rights Is Integral to Fighting Climate Change.” Independent Media Institute and Rainforest Action Network, 5 Sept. 2018, www.ecowatch.com/defending-indigenous-rights-climate-change-2602221014.html.

Categories: pollution, front-line communities, climate change impacts, community health, environmental justice

2018 National Link
Sarche, M. and Spicer P., (2008) Poverty and Health Disparities for American Indian and Alaska Native Children: Current Knowledge and Future Prospects. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1136: p. 126-136.

Categories: poverty, health disparities, children, American Indian, Alaska Native, tribe, indigenous

2008 United States Link
The Salmon People at Risk: What Climate Change Means for the Puyallup Tribe. LRInspire. 2016.

Categories: ppuyallup, salmon, fisheries, traditional foods, TEK, sovereignty, climate change, water health

2016 Washignton State Link
Luce, Charles, and Zachary Holden. Consequences of an Endless Summer: Untangling the Link Between Summer Precipitation and Western Wildfires. United States Department of Agriculture Rocky Mountain Research Station, 2018, Consequences of an Endless Summer: Untangling the Link Between Summer Precipitation and Western Wildfires.

Categories: precipitation, wildfires, drought management

2018 Western U.S. Link
The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

Categories: preparedness, strategies, government capabilities

2019 United States. Link
Southern Methodist University, and UA Communications. “Native Bison Hunters Amplified Climate Impacts on Prairie Fires.” UA News, 24 July 2018, uanews.arizona.edu/story/native-bison-hunters-amplified-climate-impacts-prairie-fires.

Categories: prescribed burns, fire management

2018 Prairie Link
Broyles, Robin. "Native Fire". Bureau of Indian Affairs releases Native Fire - An Educational Video about the Safe Use and Application of Prescribed Fire. June 2019. https://www.bia.gov/bia/ots/dfwfm/bwfm/forestry-fire-management-stories/bureau-indian-affairs-releases-native-fire

Categories: prescribed fire, traditional ecological knowledge, ecosystem restoration, community

2019 Southern Plains 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

Categories: Public Health, adaptation, preparedness, air quality, climate change, extreme events

2015 National Link

Categories: Public Health, air quality, climate change, extreme events, information

California Link

Categories: Public Health, assessment, climate change

National, International Link
United States, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Preparing for the Health Effects of Drought; A Resource Guide for Public Health Professionals, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2018.

Categories: public health, climate change impacts, drought, vector-borne diseases and infections, air quality, infrastructure, preparedness

2018 National Link

Categories: Public Health, climate change, adaptation, planning, mitigation

National Link

Categories: Public Health, climate change, adaptation, planning, mitigation, integration

National Link

Categories: Public Health, Climate Change, assessment

National Link

Categories: Public Health, climate change, greenhouse gas emissions

International Link

Categories: Public Health, preparedness, climate change, planning, adaptation, community health

National Link

Categories: Public Health, Tribal Health, climate change, adaptation, planning, capacity building

National Link

Categories: Public Health, Tribal Health, TK, Environmental Health, Climate Change

National Link

Categories: Public health, Tribal Health, TK, Environmental Health, Climate Change, data

Washington, Puget Sound, Pacific Northwest Link
Schaefer, K., Lantuit, H., Romanovsky, V., & Schuur, E. (2012). Policy implications of warming permafrost.

Categories: Public policy, permafrost

2012 Alaska, Arctic
Glicksman, R. L., C. O’Neill, Y. Huang, W. L. Andreen, R. K. Craig, V. B. Flatt, W. Funk, D. D. Goble, A. Kaswan, and R. R. M. Verchick, 2011: Climate Change and the Puget Sound: Building the Legal Framework for Adaptation. Lewis & Clark Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2011-18. Center For Progressive Reform. URL ↩

Categories: Puget Sound, Climate change, adaptationtribe, indigenous

2011 Northwest
Quileute Newsletter, 2011: Key committee approves Cantwell bill to move Quileute Tribe out of tsunami zone. The Talking Raven: A Quileute Newsletter. URL ↩

Categories: Quileute, Relocationtribe, indigenous

2011 Northwest
Quaempts, E. J., K. L. Jones, S. J. O'Daniel, T. J. Beechie, and G. C. Poole. 2018. Aligning environmental management with ecosystem resilience: a First Foods example from the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, Oregon, USA. Ecology and Society 23(2):29.
https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10080-230229

Categories: reciprocity, creation stories, environmental policy management, first foods, resilience, planning, ecosystems

2018 Oregon Link