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 Sort ascending Year Geography Website
Tribal Wildfire Resource Guide. 2006

Categories: Wildfire, federal forest, fire policy, programs, planning, prevention, case studies

2006 Midwest, United States, National Link
Tribal Water Working Group (University of New Mexico), 2012: Water in Indian Country:

Categories: Climate change, water rights, tribe, indigenous

2012
Tribal Energy System Vulnerabilities to Climate Change and Extreme Weather. DOE. 2015.

Categories: energy, socioeconomic, climate change, accessibility, energy planning

2015 National Link
Tribal Climate Change Forum. 2009. 2009 United States, International, Pacific Northwest, Coast, Oregon, Washington, California Link
Trainor, S. F., S. F. Chapin, III, D. A. McGuire, M. Calef, N. Fresco, M. Kwart, P. Duffy, A. Lauren Lovecraft, S. T. Rupp, L. ’O. DeWilde, O. Huntington, and D. C. Natcher, 2009: Vulnerability and adaptation to climate-related fire impacts in rural and urban interior Alaska. Polar Research, 28, 100-118, doi:10.1111/j.1751-8369.2009.00101.x.

Categories: Climate change fire impacts, vulnerability, Adaptation, Alaska, tribe, indigenous

2009 Alaska, Arctic
Trainor, S. F., F. S. Chaplin III, H. P. Huntington, D. C. Natcher, and G. Kofinas. 2007. Artic Climate Impacts: Environmental Injustice in Canada and the United States. Local Environment 12(6): 627-643.

Categories: Climate change, Political and industrial context of successful adaptation, Global contexts, Canada, United States, Arctic, tribe, indigenous

2007 Arctic, Canada, United States, Alaska Link
Trahant, M. 2017. Saving Budget Fights for Another Day: Congress has a spending plan for this year that includes more money for most Native programs through September.

Categories: Trump Administration, policy, planning, budget, agencies, tribal assistance, short-term

2017 National, United States Link
Toward Climate Resilience: A Framework and Principles for Science-Based Adaptation. UCS. 2016.

Categories: climate change, adaptation, mitigation, climate science assessment

2016 United States Link
Torben C. Rick, Leslie A. Reeder-Myers, Courtney A. Hofman, Denise Breitburg, Rowan Lockwood, Gregory Henkes, Lisa Kellogg, Darrin Lowery, Mark W. Luckenbach, Roger Mann, Matthew B. Ogburn, Melissa Southworth, John Wah, James Wesson, and Anson H. Hines. 2016. Millennial-scale sustainability of the Chesapeake Bay Native American oyster fishery. PNAS 113: 6568-6573.

Categories: historical baseline data, shellfish, marine fisheries, environmental management, oysters, climate change, archaeology, estuary, conservation, restoration, reefs

2016 East, Atlantic, Coastal, Chesapeake Bay Link
Tillmann, P. and Siemann, D., 2011. Climate change effects and adaptation approaches in marine and coastal ecosystems of the North Pacific landscape conservation cooperative region: a compilation of scientific literature, phase 1 draft final report. National Wildlife Federation for the US Fish and Wildlife Service Region, 1.

Categories: Southeast Alaska, shellfish, butter clams, cockles, coastal change, precipitation, coastal welling, coastal squeeze, hypoxia, anoxia, runoff timing, glacier/glacial retreat, coastal erosion, coastal change, migratory shorebirds, tidal flats, inundation, new species, TEK, Zostera marina, j. Japonica, eelgrass, climate change, sea level rise, adaptation, geomorphology, streamflow, hydrology, controlled burn, wildfire

2011 Alaska Link
Thorpe, Natasha, N. Hakongak, Eyegetok, Sandra, and the Kitikmeot Elders. 2003. Thunder on the Tundra. Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit of the Bathurst Caribou. Vancouver: Tuktu and Nogak Project

Categories: subsistence, Culture, Inuit Qaujimajatunqangit (IQ), Traditional Knowledge, Bathurst caribou, Nunavit, tribe, indigenous

2003 Arctic
Thornton, T.F., Moss, M.L., Butler, V.L., Hebert, J. and Funk, F., 2010. Local and Traditional Knowledge and the Historical Ecology of Pacific Herring in Alaska. Journal of Ecological Anthropology, 14(1), pp.81-88.

Categories: Southeast Alaska, Pacific herring, Clupea pallasii, roe, commercial, subsistence, fisheries, restoration, habitat, conservation, management, climate change, TEK

2010 Alaska Link
Thorne, K.M., Powelson, K.W., Bui T.D., Freeman, J.Y. Takekawa, C.M., Janousek, C.N., Buffington, K.J., and D.L. Elliott-Fisk. 2016. Assessing coastal manager science needs and disseminating science results for planning. Data Summary Report Prepared for the
California and North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperatives. USGS Western Ecological Research Center, Vallejo, CA. 110 pp.

Categories: Planning, Science in Planning, Coastal Management, Natural Resource Management

2016 Pacific Ocean, Northwest, West, Alaska Link
Thomas W. Doyle, Bogdan Chivoiu, and Nicholas M. Enwright . 2015. Sea-level rise modeling handbook: Resource guide for coastal land managers, engineers, and scientists. Report submitted to USGS.

Categories: Sea-level Rise, Climate Modeling, Guide, Ecosystems Impacts

2015. Gulf of Mexico, Southeast Link
Thoman, Rick. 2016. At the Edge of the Wide Water: Southeast Alaska climate and Pacific Ocean variability. National Weather Service, Alaska region, Anchorage, Alaska.

Categories: Southeast Alaska, climate change, climate patterns, Pacific ocean, Juneau, winter, snowfall, temperature, oscillation, precipitation, variability, hurricane, El Nino, the Blob, El Oho, Gulf of Alaska 

2016 Alaska Link
Thiele, R. 2015. Gun Lake Tribe Produces Documentary on Disappearing Wild Rice. NPR. [audio].

Categories: Wild Rice, Species Range Shifts, Documentary, Native Media

2015 East Coast, Midwest, Great Lakes Link
Therrell, M. D., and M. J. Trotter, 2011: Waniyetu Wówapi: Native American records of weather and climate. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 92, 583-592, doi:10.1175/2011bams3146.1. URL ↩

Categories: weather records, tribe, indigenous

2011 Great Plains
The White House, December 2022. "Building a Clean Energy Economy: A Guidebook to the Inflation Reduction Act’s Investments in Clean Energy and Climate Action." www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Inflation-Reduction-Act-Guidebook.pdf

Categories: funding, inflation reduction act, IRA, energy

2022 National Link
The Washington-British Columbia Transboundary Climate-Connectivity Project. University of Washington. 2016.

Categories: climate impacts, climate models, climate adaptation, mitigation, case study, climate model

2016 Washington state, British Colombia, National, International Link
The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

Categories: preparedness, strategies, government capabilities

2019 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
The Nature Conservancy. 2012. Klawock River, Salmon Passage and Habitat Restoration Project Final Report. Prepared for NOAA Restoration Center. The Working Forest Group. 2013. Consolidated young growth forest land base analysis for all land ownership in Southeast Alaska and recommendations for federal land managers. Prepared at the request of: USDA Forest Service, Alaska Region.

Categories: Southeast Alaska, Klawock Community Association, Klawock Heenya Corporation, watershed, hydrology

2012 Alaska 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
The Government-to-Government Relationship in a Changing Climate: A review of federal consultation policies

Categories: Consultation, Federal Policy

2012 National Link
The Dakota Access Pipeline, Environmental Injustice, and U.S. Colonialism. 2017. In Red Ink: An International Journal of Indigenous Literature, Arts, & Humanities.

Categories: environmental justice, social change, protest, demonstration, fossil fuel, capitalism, indigenous, sovereignty, self-determination, treaty rights

2017 Midwest, National, North Dakota Link
Thackeray L (2012) 2012 Montana wildfires burn most acreage since 1910. Billings Gazette. 11/1/2012. Billings, MT

Categories: Wildfire

2012 Northwest Link
Terri Hansen. 2016. 'Extreme Heat Week' Combats Climate Change With Resilience Strategies for Tribes. Indian Country Today Media Network.

Categories: Climate Adaptation, Climate Impacts, Indigenous Peoples, Drought

2016 National Link
Teresa G. Jacobs and Santi Alston. Climate Change Impacts on Tribes’ Off-Reservation Resources: Legal Avenues for Protection. 2011.

Categories: legal strategies, off-reservation resources, cultural resource protection, traditional subsistence, prevention, ecological removal, treaty-protected,

2011 National, United States Link
Teresa Evans-Campbell. 2008. Historical Trauma in American Indian/Native Alaska Communities: Multilevel Framework for Exploring Impacts on Individuals, Families, and Communities. Journal of Interpersonal Violence 23(3): 316-338.

Categories: historical trauma, American Indians, microaggressions, intergenerational trauma, tribe, indigenous

2008 United States Link
Terence, Malcolm. Karuk Tribe Holds Its Own Climate Study Session. Two Rivers Tribune. 2016.

Categories: climate assessment, climate science, indigenous knowledge, tribal lands, local government, orleans, Federal agency,

2016 California, Orleans, Pacific Northwest Link