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
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
Redsteer, M. Hiza, Bogle, R, and Vogel, J. Block, D., and Middleton, B. (2010b) The history and growth of a recent dune field at Grand Falls, Navajo Nation, NE Arizona. Geological Society of America Abstracts with programs, Paper No. 170-5, Vol. 42, No. 5, p.416. 2010
Redsteer, M. Hiza (2002) Factors effecting dune mobility on the Navajo Nation, Arizona, USA. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Aeolian Research and The Global Change & Terrestrial Ecosystem-Soil Erosion Network, July 22-25, 2002, Lubbock Texas, USA: International Center for Arid and Semiarid Lands Studies, Texas Tech University, Lubbock Texas, USA Publication number 02-2, p.385

Categories: tribe, indigenous, Navajo Nation, Sand dune

2002
Redsteer, M. H., R. C. Bogle, and J. M. Vogel, 2011: Monitoring and Analysis of Sand Dune Movement and Growth on the Navajo Nation, Southwestern United States. Fact Sheet Number 3085. U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA. URL↩

Categories: Sand Dunes, Navajo Nation, Southwest, tribe, indigenous

2011 Southwest
Redsteer, M. H., K. B. Kelley, H. Francis, and D. Block, 2011: Disaster Risk Assessment Case Study: Recent Drought on the Navajo Nation, Southwestern United States. Contributing Paper for the Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction. 19 pp., United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA. URL↩

Categories: Disaster Risk Assessment, Four Corners, Navajo Nation, Drought, Southwest, tribe, indigenous

2011 Southwest
Redsteer, M. H., 2011: Increasing Vulnerability to Drought and Climate Change on the Navajo Nation, Southwestern United States. Current Conditions & Accounts Of Changes During The Last 100 Years. 31 pp., U.S. Geological Survey. 0928. URL ↩

Categories: Climate change, Drought, Navajo Nation, tribe, indigenous

2011
Redsteer, M. H. and Block, D., (2004) Drought conditions accelerate destabilization of sand dunes on the Navajo Nation, southern Colorado Plateau. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 36, No. 5, p. 171, Paper No. 66-8.

Categories: Navajo Nation, Drought, tribe, indigenous

2004 Southwest Link
Recommended Practices for Landscape Conservation Design. (2018). 1-70. Retrieved October 17, 2018, from https://www.fws.gov/science/pdf/LCD-Recommended-Practices.pdf.

Categories: landscape conservation, species conservation, data sharing, collaboration

2018 National Link
Rebecca Tsosie, Tribal Data Governance and Informational Privacy: Constructing "Indigenous Data Sovereignty", 80 Mont. L. Rev. 229
(2019).

Categories: data sovereignty, data collection, traditional knowledge, data protection, information, privacy

2019 Link
Rebecca A. Mabardy, George G. Waldbusser, Flaxen Conway and Christine S. Olsen. 2015. Perception and Response of the U.S. West Coast Shellfish Industry to Ocean Acidification: The Voice of the Canaries in the Coal Mine. Journal of Shellfish Research 34(2):565-572.

Categories: Ocean Acidification, Shellfish, Commercial Fishing

2015 Pacific Ocean, Pacific Northwest Link
Ratner, N.C., P. Brown, J. Rowan, D. Yates, M. Smith, J. Dizard, A. Paige, and M.F.Turek. 2006. Local knowledge, customary practices, and harvest of sockeye salmon from the Klawock and Sarkar Rivers, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska. Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Division of Subsistence Technical
Paper No. 308. Juneau.

Categories: Southeast Alaska, Subsistence Fishery, TEK, Sockeye Salmon or Red Salmon, Klawock, Sarkar, Prince of Wales Island, Tongass National Forest, policy and management

2006 Alaska Link
Raftery M. 2013. Federal Judge Hears Quechan Tribe’s Case On Ocotillo Wind Project Harm To Sacred Sites. East County Magazine.

Categories: cultural resource protection, tribe, indigenous

2013 Northeast Link
Raftery M. 2012. Wind Storm: Tribes Implore President Obama To Stop Ocotillo Express Wind Project, Save Cultural Resource Sites Available At: http://www.eastcountymagazine.org/wind-storm-tribes-implore-president-obama-stop-ocotillo-express-wind-project-save-cultural-resource

Categories: Renewable energy, tribe, indigenous

2012 Link
Quileute Newsletter, 2011: Key committee approves Cantwell bill to move Quileute Tribe out of tsunami zone. The Talking Raven: A Quileute Newsletter. URL ↩

Categories: Quileute, Relocationtribe, indigenous

2011 Northwest
Quaempts, E. J., K. L. Jones, S. J. O'Daniel, T. J. Beechie, and G. C. Poole. 2018. Aligning environmental management with ecosystem resilience: a First Foods example from the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, Oregon, USA. Ecology and Society 23(2):29.
https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10080-230229

Categories: reciprocity, creation stories, environmental policy management, first foods, resilience, planning, ecosystems

2018 Oregon Link
Pyper, Julia. “IRS Issues Favorable Tax Credit Guidance for New Solar Projects.” GTM, 22 June 2018, www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/irs-issues-favorable-tax-credit-guidance-for-new-solar-projects?utm_source=InsideClimate News&utm_campaign=ee944cfe76-&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-ee944cfe76-327881649#gs.qZ1Esio.

Categories: solar panel, tax credit, investment, renewable energy

2018 National Link
Pungowiyi, C., 2009: Siberian Yup'ik Elder, personal communication. 2009
Pungowiyi, C., 2006: Siberian Yup'ik Elder, personal communication. 2006
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
Profita, Cassandra. 2017. Climate Change Is Making Smoky, Unhealthy Air More Common.

Categories: climate change, wildfire, asthma, heart disease, human health, risk, hazard, air quality, smoke, pollution

2017 Northwest, Pacific Northwest Link
Pringle, Heather. 2017. In the Land of Lost Gardens. Hakai Magazine.

Categories: ethnobotany, TEK, traditional knowledge, plants, first foods, traditional foods,

2017 British Colombia, Canada, Pacific Northwest Link
Press, T. A. (2016, July 10). Columbia River fishing plan could alter limits for salmon, steelhead. Retrieved July 26, 2016, from http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2016/07/columbia_river_fishing_plan_co.html

Categories: salmon, fisheries, marine health, steelhead, Tribal governments, Pacific Northwest Tribes

2016 Pacific Northwest, Washington, Oregon, National Link
President’s FY2016 Indian Affairs Budget Requests $2.9 Billion to Support Tribal Self-Determination, Strengthen Native American Communities

Categories: Budget, Self-Determination, tribe, indigenous

2015 United States Link
POWTEC Environmental Services, LLC., 2005. Kasaan Bay Watershed Management Plan. Prepared for Organized Village of Kasaan Department of Natural Resources.

Categories: Southeast Alaska, watershed, hydrology, precipitation, butter clams, black seaweed, hooligan, herring, sea otter, salmon, fisheries, economy, water quality,

2005 Alaska Link
Popovich, N., Schlossberg, T. 2017. 23 Environmental Rules Rolled Back in Trump’s First 100 Days.

Categories: climate change, Trump administration, environmentalism, deregulation, emissions, standards, pollution, greenhouse gas regulations, energy, fossil fuels

2017 United States, Global, International Link
Popovich, N. 2017. Trump’s Executive Order Pushes the U.S. Climate Pledge Further Out of Reach. New York Times.

Categories: climate change, emissions, standards, greenhouse gasses, regulations, deregulated

2017 National Link
Popkin, Gabriel. 2017. How Scientists And Indigenous Groups Can Team Up to Protect Forests and Climate. Smithsonianmag.

Categories: climate change, conservation, sustainability, preservation, forest, water, adaptation, mitigation, interagency,

2017 South America, Wasington, D.C., United States, Central America, Global Link
Plumer, B. (2018, May 15). 'Impossible to Ignore': Why Alaska Is Crafting a Plan to Fight Climate Change. Retrieved July 2, 2018, from https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/15/climate/alaska-climate-change.html

Categories: climate change, adaptation, greenhouse gas emissions, relocation, renewable energy

2018 Alaska 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
Piguet, Etienne. 2008 Climate Change and Forced Migration. New Issues in Refugee Research. Research 2008 Link