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
Perdue, Theda. 2012. The Legacy of Indian Removal. The Journal of Southern History 78(1):3-36.

Categories: Historical Displacement, tribe, indigenous

2012 Southwest
McDonald, Michael J., and John Muldowny 1982 TVA and the Dispossessed. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press.

Categories: Historical Displacement, Tennessee valley authority, tribe, indigenous

1982 Southeast
Bartrop, Paul R. 2007 Episodes from the Genocide of the Native Americans: A Review Essay. Genocide Studies and Prevention. 2(2): 183–190.

Categories: Historical Displacement, Genocide, Native Americans, tribe, indigenous

2007 United States Link
Akers, Donna 1999 Removing the Heart of the Choctaw People: Indian Removal from a Native Perspective. American Indian Culture and Research Journal 23(3):63–76.

Categories: Historical Displacement, Choctaw, tribe, indigenous

1999 Book chapter
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
United States, Congress, Federal Highway Administration. “Climate Change and Environmental Justice: Considerations for Transportation Decision-Making.” Climate Change and Environmental Justice: Considerations for Transportation Decision-Making, 2016.

Categories: highways, transportation, climate change, climate change impacts, environmental justice, equity

2016 National Link
Fleming, A., Michaelson, R., Youssef, A., Holmes, O., & Robertson, H. (2018, August 13). Heat: The next big inequality issue. The Guardian. Retrieved August 14, 2018, from https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/aug/13/heat-next-big-inequality-issue-heatwaves-world?CMP=share_btn_fb

Categories: heatwave, inequality, public health, environmental justice

2018 Canada, International Link
Hennessy, T. W., Ritter, T., Holman, R. C., Bruden, D. L., Yorita, K. L., Bulkow, L., ... & Smith, J. (2008). The relationship between in-home water service and the risk of respiratory tract, skin, and gastrointestinal tract infections among rural Alaska natives. American Journal of Public Health, 98(11), 2072-2078.

Categories: Health, Water services, Infections, Rural Alaska, tribe, indigenous

2008 Alaska, Arctic Link
Gessner, B. D. (2008). Lack of piped water and sewage services is associated with pediatric lower respiratory tract infection in Alaska. The Journal of pediatrics, 152(5), 666-670.

Categories: Health, Water services, Alaska, tribe, indigenous

2008 Alaska, Arctic
Egeland G, Harrison G (2013) Health disparities: promoting Indigenous Peoples’ health through traditional food systems and self-determination. In: Kuhnlein H., Erasmus B., Spigelski D., Burlingame B. (Eds.) 2013. Indigenous Peoples’ food systems & well-being interventions and policies for healthy communities.

Categories: Health, Traditional foods, self determination, tribe, indigenous

2013 Global Link

Categories: Health, climate change, temperature-related, air quality impacts, extreme events, vector-borne diseases, water quality, food safety

National Link
Levitan, Dave. “Health Departments Are on Climate Change's Front Lines.” Ensia, ensia.com/features/public-health-departments-climate-change/.

Categories: health, climate change, extreme weather events, public health, adaptation

National Link

Categories: Health, climate change, extreme events impacts, food safety, information, mental health, well-being, Native American communties, traditional knowledge, vector borne disease

Alaska Link
Swain, Dr. Elizabeth, et al. Multisolving at the Intersection of Health and Climate; Lessons from Success Stories. Climate Interactive, 2018, Multisolving at the Intersection of Health and Climate; Lessons from Success Stories, img.climateinteractive.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Multisolving-at-the-Intersection-of-Health-and-Climate-1.pdf.

Categories: health, climate change, climate change adaptation, community health

2018 International Link
Annie Doubleday, Nicole A. Errett, Kristie L. Ebi, and Jeremy J. Hess, 2020:Indicators to Guide and Monitor Climate Change Adaptation in the US Pacific Northwest American Journal of Public Health 110, 180_188, https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2019.305403

Categories: Health, climate change

2020 Northwest Link
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
EPA. Climate Change and the Health of People with Existing Medical Conditions. Factsheet. 2016.

Categories: health risks, medical conditions, climate change, biohazard,

2016 United States, International Link
EPA. Climate Change and the Health of Children. Factsheet. 2016.

Categories: health risks, children, socioeconomic, climate change, biohazard, vulnerability, exposure

2016 International Link
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. Protecting the Health and Well-Being of Communities in a Changing Climate: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/24797.

Categories: health and medicine, public health, prevention, environment, environment health and safety, climate change

2017 Link
Watts, Nick. “The 2018 Report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change: Shaping the Health of Nations for Centuries to Come.” The Lancet, vol. 392, no. 10163, 8 Dec. 2018, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32594-7.

Categories: health and climate change, monitoring, adaptation, planning, resilience, mitigation, public health

2018 National Link
USGCRP, 2016: The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States: A Scientific Assessment. Crimmins, A., J. Balbus, J.L. Gamble, C.B. Beard, J.E. Bell, D. Dodgen, R.J. Eisen, N. Fann, M.D. Hawkins, S.C. Herring, L. Jantarasami, D.M. Mills, S. Saha, M.C. Sarofim, J. Trtanj, and L. Ziska, Eds. U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, 312 pp. http://dx.doi.org/10.7930/J0R49NQX

Categories: Harmful Algal Blooms, Water Quality, Human Health, Climate Impacts, Temperature Change, Air Quality Impacts, Extreme Events, Vector-Borne Diseases, Water-related Illnesses, Food Safety, Mental Health

2016 National Link

Categories: habitat connectivity, management, climate change impacts, adaptation, ecological connectivity, conservation, data

Northwest Link
Kathleen A. Wendt, Yuri V. Dublyansky, Gina E. Moseley, R. Lawrence Edwards, Hai Cheng, Christoph Spötl. Moisture availability in the southwest United States over the last three glacial-interglacial cycles. Science Advances, 2018; 4 (10): eaau1375 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aau1375

Categories: groundwater, southwest, water table, rainfall patterns, climate change, historic patterns

2018 Southwest Link
Pitz, Charles. 2016. Predicted Impacts of Climate Change on Groundwater Resources of Washington State. Washington State Department of Ecology. Publication No. 16-03-006

Categories: Groundwater Resources, Climate Impacts, Hydrology, Climate Assessment, Sea-level Rise

2016 Northwest, Coastal Link
Jordan, Richard H. 1984. Neo-Eskimo Prehistory of Greenland. In Handbook of North American Indians. Vol. 5. Arctic. D. Damas, ed. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution. Pp. 540–548.

Categories: Greenland, History, tribe, indigenous

1984 Global
Holden, Emily, 2017. Was the Clean Power Plan Really Bad for the Economy?

Categories: greenhouse gas regulations, deregulated, coal, natural gas, Clean Power Plan, Trump Administration, energy, footprint

2017 National Link
Kusnetz, Nicholas. “These Are the Toughest Emissions to Cut, and a Big Chunk of the Climate Problem.” Inside Climate News, 28 June 2018, insideclimatenews.org/news/28062018/global-warming-pollution-industrial-sources-cement-steel-trade-solutions-technology-shipping?utm_source=InsideClimate News&utm_campaign=ee944cfe76-&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-ee944cfe76-327881649.

Categories: greenhouse gas emissions, pollution, climate change, climate adaptation, cement and steel emissions

2018 Global Link
Gilio-Whitaker, Dina. “How to Indigenize the Green New Deal and Environmental Justice.” How to Indigenize the Green New Deal and Environmental Justice -, High Country News, 10 July 2019, www.hcn.org/articles/tribal-affairs-how-to-indigenize-the-green-new-deal-and-environmental-justice.

Categories: Green New Deal, environmental justice, indigenize, sovereignty, climate change, tribes

2019 National Link

Categories: green building, tribal homes, green infrastructure, energy efficiency, renewable energy, resilience, planning

National Link
Ojima, D., J. Steiner, S. McNeeley, K. Cozzetto, and A. Childress, 2013: Great Plains Regional Climate Assessment Technical Report, National Climate Assessment 2013., 301 pp. URL ↩

Categories: Great Plains, assessment

2013 Great Plains Link