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

Categories: Tribal Health, community health, cultural practices, infrastructure

Montana Link

Categories: Tribal Health, community health, natural resources, climate change, health assessment

Washington, National Link
Weinhold, Bob. “HEALTH DISPARITIES: Climate Change and Health: A Native American Perspective.” Environmental Health Perspectives 118.2 (2010): A64–A65. Print.

Categories: tribal health, community, climate change, dislocation, food shortage

2010 National Link

Categories: Tribal health, TEK, climate change, adaptation, mitigation

National Link

Categories: tribal profiles, Office of Indian Energy, solar power, renewable energy

California Link
United States Forest Service. 2017. Tribal Relations News and Events, Summer 2017.

Categories: Tribal relations, collaboration, interagency, federal assistance, trust relationship, Shawnee, Tlingit, Cherokee, Hopi, Apache, huckleberries

2017 Washington state, Oklahoma, National, United States Link
Zimmer, Carl. Global Warming Alters Arctic Food Chain, Scientists Say, With Unforeseeable Results. USDA. 2016.

Categories: tribal relations, current events, agency, tribe, collaboration,

2016 National Link
Carmen, A., Borrero, R. 2017. IITC (International Indian Treaty Council) Urges US to Rescind Trump’s Recent Actions Due to Human Rights Issues.

Categories: tribal rights, human health, cultural practice, spirituality, religion, sovereignty, self-determination,

2017 National, International, Untied States Link
Long, J. W., & Lake, F. K. (2018). Escaping social-ecological traps through tribal stewardship on national forest lands in the Pacific Northwest, United States of America. Ecology and Society, 23(2). Retrieved May 2, 2018, from https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol23/iss2/art10/.

Categories: tribal rights, resources, land management, sustainability, social-ecological systems, land stewardship, restoration, well-being

2018 Pacific Northwest Link
Javelosa, J., Norman, A. 2017. A River Was Just Granted the Same Legal Rights as a Human Being.

Categories: tribal rights, sovereignty, self-determination, human health, community health, social justice, policy,

2017 New Zealand Link
Co-producing Science and Tools for Drought Preparedness with the Wind River Reservation's Tribal Water Managers. DOI. 2016.

Categories: tribal water management, drought, climate science, Water rights, water health, climate adaptation

2016 Midwest, Wyoming, Montana, Eastern Oregon Link
Whitehouse.gov. 2014. , “President’s State, Local, and Tribal Leaders Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience” Available at: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/task_force_report_0.pdf

Categories: tribe, Climate change, Adaptation, Mitigation, resilience, indigenous

2014 United States Link
Pulwarty, Roger. 2013 Presentation at the Rising Voices of Indigenous People in Weather and Climate Science Workshop. The Indigenous Peoples Climate Change Working Group and National Center

Categories: tribe, indigenous

2013
Olp S (2011) Crow flooding: More than 200 Crow Reservation homes damaged, destroyed from flooding. Billings Gazette. June 15, 2011. Billings, MT

Categories: tribe, indigenous

2011
Redsteer, M. Hiza, Bogle, R.C., and Vogel J.M. (2011a) Monitoring and Analysis of Sand Dune Movement and Growth on the Navajo Nation, Southwestern United States. U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2011-3085, Available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2011/3085/.

Categories: tribe, indigenous

2011 Southwest
Federal Register (2010) Indian Entities Eligible to Receive Services from the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs. Vol. 75:190, Friday October 1, 2010 Notices; 60810-60814.

Categories: tribe, indigenous

2010 United States Link
Krupnik, Igor, Aporta, Claudio, Gearheard, Shari, Laidler, Gita J., and Lene Kielsen Holm. 2010. SIKU: Knowing Our Ice. Documenting Inuit Sea Ice Knowledge and Use. Dorderecht: Springer.

Categories: tribe, indigenous

2010
Laidler, Gita J., Elee, Pootoogoo, Ikummaq, Teo, Joamie, Eric, and Claudio Aporta. 2010. Mapping Inuit sea ice knowledge, use, and change in Nunavut, Canada (Cape Dorset, Igloolik, Pangnirtung). 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. 45–80.

Categories: tribe, indigenous

2010
Laska, Shirley, Kristina Peterson, Michelle E. Alcina, Jonathan West, Ashey Volion, Brent Tranchina, and Richard Krajeski. 2010. Enhancing Gulf of Mexico Coastal Communities' Resiliency through Participatory Community Engagement. CHART Publications. Paper 21. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/chart_pubs/21

Categories: tribe, indigenous

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

Categories: tribe, indigenous

2010
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
Federal Emergency Management Agency (2009) Hazard Mitigation Plan Status List for Indian Tribal Governments. Retrieved November 18, 2011, from http://www.fema.gov/library/viewRecord.do?id=3565

Categories: tribe, indigenous

2009
Bailey, Garrick A., ed. 2008. Indians in Contemporary Society. Handbook of North American Indians. Vol. 2. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution.

Categories: tribe, indigenous

2008 North America Link
McNutt, D., 2008: Native Peoples: The "Miners Canary" on Climate Change. 16 pp., Northwest Indian Applied Research Institute, Evergreen State College. URL ↩

Categories: tribe, indigenous

2008
Bureau of Indian Affairs (2007) Artman to Inspect Fire Damage on La Jolla and Rincon Reservations; Will Meet with Tribal, Federal and State Officials on Relief Efforts: Department of Interior Media Advisory.

Categories: tribe, indigenous

2007 La Jolla Reservation, Rincon Reservation, California Link
Indian Health Services (2007) Public Law 86-121 Annual Report for 2007. Sanitation Facilities Construction Program, Public Health Service, 50p. Available at http://www.ihs.gov/dsfc/documents/SFCAnnualReport2007.pdf .

Categories: tribe, indigenous

2007 Link
Kelley, D. (2007) A Struggling Tribe Faces New Hardships. Los Angeles Times, November 22, 2007.

Categories: tribe, indigenous

2007
Stuckenberger, Nicole A., ed. 2007. Thin Ice. Inuit Traditions within a Changing Environment. Exhibit Catalog. Hanover and London: University Press of New England.

Categories: tribe, indigenous

2007
Ubelaker, Douglas H., ed. 2006. Handbook of North American Indians. Vol. 3. Environment, Origins, and PopulationWashington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, pp. 222–235.

Categories: tribe, indigenous

2006
Ashford, G. and J. Castelden. 2001. Inuit observations on climate change. Final Report. International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). Winnipeg.

Categories: tribe, indigenous

2001 Arctic, Canada, Alaska, Greenland Link