Literature

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.

Publicationsort descending Year Category Geography Website
Tejsner, Pelle. 2013. Living with uncertainties: Qeqertarsuarmiut perceptions of changing sea ice. Polar Geography 36(1–2): 47–64. 2013 Climate change, Arctic, sea ice, Coastal, harvesting, Greenland, Crisis-narratives, tribe, indigenous Arctic Link
Tengö, M., R. Hill, P. Malmer, C. M. Raymond, M. Spierenburg, F. Danielsen, T. Elmqvist, C. Folke. 2017. Weaving knowledge systems in IPBES, CBD and beyond—lessons learned for sustainability. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 26–27:17–25 2017 climate change, TEK, traditional knowledge, knowledge transmission, management, planning, policy International Link
Terence, Malcolm. Karuk Tribe Holds Its Own Climate Study Session. Two Rivers Tribune. 2016. 2016 climate assessment, climate science, indigenous knowledge, tribal lands, local government, orleans, Federal agency, California, Orleans, Pacific Northwest 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. 2008 historical trauma, American Indians, microaggressions, intergenerational trauma, tribe, indigenous United States Link
Teresa G. Jacobs and Santi Alston. Climate Change Impacts on Tribes’ Off-Reservation Resources: Legal Avenues for Protection. 2011. 2011 legal strategies, off-reservation resources, cultural resource protection, traditional subsistence, prevention, ecological removal, treaty-protected, National, United States Link
Terri Hansen. 2016. 'Extreme Heat Week' Combats Climate Change With Resilience Strategies for Tribes. Indian Country Today Media Network. 2016 Climate Adaptation, Climate Impacts, Indigenous Peoples, Drought National Link
Thackeray L (2012) 2012 Montana wildfires burn most acreage since 1910. Billings Gazette. 11/1/2012. Billings, MT 2012 Wildfire Northwest Link
The Dakota Access Pipeline, Environmental Injustice, and U.S. Colonialism. 2017. In Red Ink: An International Journal of Indigenous Literature, Arts, & Humanities. 2017 environmental justice, social change, protest, demonstration, fossil fuel, capitalism, indigenous, sovereignty, self-determination, treaty rights Midwest, National, North Dakota Link
The Government-to-Government Relationship in a Changing Climate: A review of federal consultation policies 2012 Consultation, Federal Policy National Link
The Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) 2010. Fact Sheet: Women, Disasters, and Hurricane Katrina. 2010 Violence against women, Disasters, Hurricane Katrina Southeast
The National Academic Press 2019 climate change, assessment, action, subnational organizations National 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. 2012 Southeast Alaska, Klawock Community Association, Klawock Heenya Corporation, watershed, hydrology Alaska Link
The Salmon People at Risk: What Climate Change Means for the Puyallup Tribe. LRInspire. 2016. 2016 ppuyallup, salmon, fisheries, traditional foods, TEK, sovereignty, climate change, water health Washignton State Link
The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) 2019 preparedness, strategies, government capabilities United States. Link
The Washington-British Columbia Transboundary Climate-Connectivity Project. University of Washington. 2016. 2016 climate impacts, climate models, climate adaptation, mitigation, case study, climate model Washington state, British Colombia, National, International Link
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 2022 funding, inflation reduction act, IRA, energy National 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 ↩ 2011 weather records, tribe, indigenous Great Plains
Thiele, R. 2015. Gun Lake Tribe Produces Documentary on Disappearing Wild Rice. NPR. [audio]. 2015 Wild Rice, Species Range Shifts, Documentary, Native Media East Coast, Midwest, Great Lakes 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. 2016 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  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. 2015. Sea-level Rise, Climate Modeling, Guide, Ecosystems Impacts Gulf of Mexico, Southeast 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. 2016 Planning, Science in Planning, Coastal Management, Natural Resource Management Pacific Ocean, Northwest, West, Alaska Link
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. 2010 Southeast Alaska, Pacific herring, Clupea pallasii, roe, commercial, subsistence, fisheries, restoration, habitat, conservation, management, climate change, TEK 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 2003 subsistence, Culture, Inuit Qaujimajatunqangit (IQ), Traditional Knowledge, Bathurst caribou, Nunavit, tribe, indigenous Arctic
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. 2011 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 Alaska 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. 2016 historical baseline data, shellfish, marine fisheries, environmental management, oysters, climate change, archaeology, estuary, conservation, restoration, reefs East, Atlantic, Coastal, Chesapeake Bay Link
Toward Climate Resilience: A Framework and Principles for Science-Based Adaptation. UCS. 2016. 2016 climate change, adaptation, mitigation, climate science assessment United States 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. 2017 Trump Administration, policy, planning, budget, agencies, tribal assistance, short-term National, United States Link
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. 2007 Climate change, Political and industrial context of successful adaptation, Global contexts, Canada, United States, Arctic, tribe, indigenous Arctic, Canada, United States, Alaska 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. 2009 Climate change fire impacts, vulnerability, Adaptation, Alaska, tribe, indigenous Alaska, Arctic
Tribal Climate Change Forum. 2009. 2009 United States, International, Pacific Northwest, Coast, Oregon, Washington, California Link

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