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.

Publication Year Categorysort descending Geography Website
Bailey, G. and Bailey, R.G., Ed. (1986). A History of the Navajos: The Reservation Years. Santa Fe NM, School of American Research Press, 358p. 1986 History, Native American History, Navajo Indians Navajo Nation, tribe, indigenous Navajo Nation, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, Southwest
U.S. Census Bureau, 1995: Housing of American Indians on Reservations - Equipment and Fuels. Bureau of the Census Statistical Brief, Issued April 1995, SB/95-11. 4 pp., U.S. Census Bureau, Washington, D.C. URL ↩ 1995 Housing, Equipment and Fuels, Reservation, tribe, indigenous United States
U.S. Census Bureau, 1995: Housing of American Indians on Reservations - Plumbing. Bureau of the Census Statistical Brief, Issued April 1995, SB/95-9. 4 pp., U.S. Census Bureau, Washington, D.C. URL ↩ 1995 Housing, Plumbing, Reservation, tribe, indigenous United States
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (2013) Assessment of American Indian Housing Needs and Programs: Final Report. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research, Washington DC. 2013 Housing, tribe, indigenous United States Link
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (2014) Assessment of American Indian Housing Needs and Programs: Final Report. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research, Washington DC. 2014 Housing, tribe, indigenous United States Link
McDowell, G., E. Stephenson, and J. Ford. 2014. Adaptation to climate change in glaciated mountain regions. Climatic Change 126(1):77–91. 2014 human dimension, Climate change, Adaptation Global Link
Brown, H.E., Comrie, A.C., Drechsler, D.M., Barker, C.M., Basu, R., Brown, T., Gershunov, A., Kilpatrick, A.M., Reisen, W.K., Ruddell, D.M. (2013). Human Health, Chapter 15 in the Assessment of Climate Change in the Southwestern United States: A Report Prepared for the National Climate Assessment, A Report by the Southwest Climate Allinace, Island Press, Washington, DC, pp. 312-339. 2013 Human Health Southwest Link
Saperstein, A. 2015. Climate Change, Migration, and the Puget Sound Region: What We Know and How We Could Learn More. Report prepared for the University of Washington Climate Impacts Group. The Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Washington, Seattle. 2015 Human Migration, Climate Impacts, Research Pacific Northwest, Washington, Puget Sound Link
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of North Carolina. 2014. The United Nations Human Rights Treaty System: U.S. OBLIGATIONS UNDER HUMAN RIGHTS TREATIES: ICCPR 2014 & UPR 2011. 2014 Human Rights, United States Government, International Law International, National Link
Enarson, E. 2011. Does Violence Against Women Increase In Disasters? 2011 Hurricane Katrina, gender based violence Southeast
Charnley, Susan. 2018. Beavers, landowners, and watershed restoration: experimenting with beaver dam analogues in the Scott River basin, California. Res. Pap. PNW-RP-613. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 38 p. 2019 hydrology, ecology, beavers, watersheds, restoration, range lands, streams Scott River Basin, Northern California Link
Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC). 2014. The sea ice never stops. Circumpolar Inuit reflections on sea ice use and shipping in Inuit Nunaat. Ottawa: Inuit Circumpolar Council – Canada. 2014 ICC, SDWG, inuit circumpolar council, arctic council, sea ice, shipping, indigenous, tribe Arctic Link
EPA. Climate Change and the Health of Occupational Groups. Factsheet. 2016. 2016 immigrant workers, climate change, seasonal farmworker, wildfires, education, preparation, safety, occupational risks, biohazard United States, International Link
Swinomish Indian Tribal Community. 2009. Swinomish Climate Change Initiative Impact Assessment Technical Report. 2009 Impact Assessment, Vulnerability Assessment, tribe, indigenous Northwest
Anthony, Raymond. 2013. Animistic pragmatism and native ways of knowing: adaptive strategies for overcoming the struggle for food in the sub-Arctic. 811-817. Int J Circumpolar Health 2013, 72: 21224 - http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/ijch.v72i0.21224 2013 In ̃upiat, pragmatism, environmental philosophy, sub-Arctic/Arctic cultures, narrative ethics, tribe, indigenous Arctic Link
Burger, J., Gochfeld, M., Niles, L. et al. Environ Monit Assess (2015) 187: 102. doi:10.1007/s10661-014-4233-4 2015 Indicators, Human health, Ecological health, Endpoints, Cultural health, Subsistence, climate change, fisheries, conservation Northwest Coast Link
Whyte, Kyle, Indigeneity and US Settler Colonialism (April 25, 2016). Forthcoming in Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Race, Edited by Naomi Zack, Oxford University Press. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2770061 2016 Indigeneity, Indigenous Identity, Philosophy National, International Link
Kofinas, G., F.S. Chapin, S. BurnSilver, J. Schmidt, N. Fresco, K. Kielland, S. Martin, A. Springsteen, and T.S. Rupp. 2010. Resilience of Athabascan subsistence systems to interior Alaska’s changing climate. Canadian Journal of Forest Resouces. 40: 1347-1359. 2010 Indigenous Food Systems, Resilience, Climate Impacts, Athabascan Peoples, Subsistence Gathering Alaska Link
Green, D. and Raygorodetsky, G. (2010) Indigenous Knowledge of a Changing Climate. Climatic Change, Vol. 100, p. 239-242. 2010 indigenous knowledge, Climate change, tribe, indigenous International Link
Whitt, L. (2009). Science, colonialism, and indigenous peoples: The cultural politics of law and knowledge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2009 indigenous people, tribe, legal system, Traditional Knowledge, legal ideologies, intellectual property rights, Western Science, colonialism International Link
Vinyeta K, Whyte KP, Lynn K. 2015. Climate change through an intersectional lens: gendered vulnerability and resilience in indigenous communities in the United States. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-923. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 2015 Indigenous peoples, climate change vulnerability, resilience, gender, identity National Link
Participation of Indigenous Peoples at the United Nations 2016 Indigenous Peoples, United Nations, Governmental Procedure International Link
Indigenous Peoples’ Major Group for Sustainable Development (2019). Inclusion, Equality, and Empowerment to Achieve Sustainable Development: Realities of Indigenous Peoples [Thematic Report]. Retrieved from https://www.indigenouspeoples-sdg.org/index.php/english/all-resources/ipmg-position-papers-and-publications/ipmg-reports/global-reports/124-inclusion-equality-and-empowerment-to-achieve-sustainable-development-realities-of-indigenous-peoples/file 2019 indigenous peoples, United Nations, IPCC, land management, sovereignty, human rights, indigenous rights International Link
Tegel, S. (2018, September 17). A Native Answer to Climate Change. U.S. News. Retrieved September 18, 2018, from https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2018-09-17/indigenous-peoples-property-rights-may-help-slow-climate-change 2018 indigenous rights, human rights, land management, climate change, Co2 emissions, illegal logging, deforestation South America Link
Kalliongis, Jamie, and Strategic Communications. “UN Spotlights Indigenous Peoples' Contribution to Global Goals.” Rights Resources, 9 May 2018, rightsandresources.org/en/blog/un-permanent-forum-spotlights-indigenous-peoples-contributions-to-global-goals/#.Wvx5n6QvyUn. 2018 indigenous rights, land, resources, climate change, erosion, sustainable development, displacement Link
2016. Research Ethics: A Source Guide to Conducting Research with Indigenous Peoples. Indigenous Geography. 2016 indigenous science, research, climate change, cultural resources, sovereignty, self-determination Global Link
Amnesty International USA. 2007. Maze of injustice: the failure to protect Indigenous women from sexual violence in the USA. http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/issues/women-s-rights/violence-against-women/maze-of-injustice. (July 7, 2014). 2007 Indigenous women, sexual violence, tribe, indigenous United States
Brubaker, M. Y., J. N. Bell, J. E. Berner, and J. A. Warren, 2011: Climate change health assessment: A novel approach for Alaska Native communities. International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 70, doi:10.3402/ijch.v70i3.17820.↩ 2011 indigenous, Arctic, Climate change, Alaska Natives, health assessment, tribe Alaska. Arctic Link
Indigenous Peoples Climate Change Portal 2015 indigenous, Climate change International Link
Restoration Ecology 2019 indigenous, ecosystems, Indigenous People and Local Communities (IPLC), resilience United States. Link

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