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 Sort ascending Geography Website
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
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
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.

Categories: Human Health

2013 Southwest Link
Whyte, K. Powys, 2013: Justice forward: Tribes, climate adaptation and responsibility. Climatic Change, 120, 517-530, doi:10.1007/s10584-013-0743-2.↩

Categories: justice, responsibility, Adaptation, Soveregnity, tribe, indigenous

2013 United States
Rivkin, I., Trimble, J., Lopez, E., Johnson, S., Orr, E., Allen, A. 2013. Disseminating research in rural Yup’ik communities: challenges and ethical considerations in moving from discovery to intervention development. International Journal of Circumpolar Health. 72: 409-416.

Categories: Alaska Native, stress, coping, reporting research results, community-based participatory research (CBPR), research ethics, tribe, indigenous

2013 Arctic Link
Brubaker, M. 2013. Community health in a time of change -- Introduction. International Journal of Circumpolar Health. 72: 407-8.

Categories: Arctic, Health, community health, Wellness, tribe, indigenous

2013 Arctic Link
Williams, T., & Hardison, P. (2013). Culture, law, risk and governance: contexts of traditional knowledge in climate change adaptation. Climatic Change, 120(3), 531-544.

Categories: Traditional Knowledge, Adaptation, FPIC, tribe, indigenous

2013 Global Link
Tejsner, Pelle. 2013. Living with uncertainties: Qeqertarsuarmiut perceptions of changing sea ice. Polar Geography 36(1–2): 47–64.

Categories: Climate change, Arctic, sea ice, Coastal, harvesting, Greenland, Crisis-narratives, tribe, indigenous

2013 Arctic Link
Brugnach M. M Craps, A Dewulf (2013) "Including indigenous people in climate change mitigation: addressing issues of scale, knowledge and power" Climatic Change

Categories: climate change mitigation, blended knowledge, knowledge sharing, tribe, indigenous

2013 Global Link
Willox, CA.; Landman, K.; Harper, S.L.; Edge, V.L.; Houle, K.; Ford, J. D. 2013. The land enriches the soul: On climatic and environmental change, affect, and emotional health and well-being in Rigolet, Nunatsiavut, Canada. Emotion, Space and Society. 6:14-24.

Categories: Emotion, Climate change, environmental change, Health and well-being, Inuit, tribe, indigenous

2013 Arctic
Tsosie R (2013) Climate change and indigenous peoples: Comparative models of sovereignty. In: Abate RS, Kronk EA (eds) Climate change and indigenous peoples: The search for legal remedies. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp 79–95

Categories: Soveregnity, cultural soveregnity, political soveregnity, tribal rights, indigenous peoples, tribe, indigenous

2013 Global
Bureau of Indian Affairs [BIA] (2013) 2013 American Indian Population and Labor Force Report.
Washington, DC.

Categories: labor force, tribe, indigenous

2013 United States Link

Categories: climate change, anthropogenic, vulnerability, health, globe

2013 National Link
Tyrrell, Martina. 2013. Enacting and renewing identity, kinship and humanity on the sea ice. Polar Geography 36(1–2): 30–46.

Categories: descriptive ethnography, sea ice, formation, transformation, and expression of social relationships, performance of identity, tribe, indigenous

2013 Arctic Link
Christensen, Miyase, Nillson, Annika E., and Nina Wormbs, eds. 2013. Media and the Politics of Arctic Climate Change. When the Ice Breaks. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.

Categories: Climate change, Arctic, Science, Media, environmental change, Geopolitics

2013 Arctic Link

Categories: climate change, Inuit, human health, environment, impacts

2013 Candada Link
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.

Categories: Housing, tribe, indigenous

2013 United States Link
Cochran, P., O. H. Huntington, C. Pungowiyi, S. Tom, S. F. Chapin, III, H. P. Huntington, N. G. Maynard, and S. F. Trainor, 2013: Indigenous frameworks for observing and responding to climate change in Alaska. Climatic Change, 120, 557-567, doi:10.1007/s10584-013-0735-2.↩

Categories: traditional knowledges, tribe, indigenous

2013 Alaska Link
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency [USEPA] (2013) Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs Survey: American Indian and Alaska Native Village Water Systems Survey. USEPA, Drinking Water Protection Division, Washington, DC.

Categories: drinking water, tribe, indigenous

2013 United States Link
Cozzetto, K, Chief, K., Dittmer, K., Brubaker, M., Gough, R., Souza, K., Ettawageshik, F., Wotkyns, S., Opitz-Stapleton, S., Duren, S., Chavan, P., 2013: Climate change impacts on the water resources of American Indians and Alaska Natives in the US. Climatic Change, 120(3 special issue): 569-584. DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-0852-y

Categories: water rights, tribal sovereignty, tribe, indigenous

2013 United States Link
Crippa, L. and Gordon, G. 2013. International Law Principles for REDD+: The rights of indigenous peoples and the obligations of REED+. Indian Law Resource Center working paper.

Categories: American Indian Law, REDD+, Indingeous people, Rights, tribe, indigenous

2013 Global Link
Dittmer, K., 2013: Changing streamflow on Columbia basin tribal lands—climate change and salmon. Climatic Change, 120, 627-641, doi:10.1007/s10584-013-0745-0. URL ↩

Categories: Streamflow, Traditional foods, tribe, indigenous, Salmon

2013 Northwest Link
DOE Office of Indian Energy. 2013 Fuel from Waste Helps Power Two Tribes. Indian Energy Beat Newsletter, Summer/Fall, pg. 3. http://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2013/11/f5/58723__NS_IE_Newsletter_SummerFall2013_FINAL.pdf

Categories: Renewable energy, tribe, indigenous

2013 Southeast Link
Coastal Louisiana Tribal Communities, 2012: Stories of Change: Coastal Louisiana Tribal Communities’ Experiences of a Transforming Environment (Grand Bayou, Grand Caillou/Dulac, Isle de Jean Charles, Pointe-au-Chien). Workshop Report Input into the National Climate Assessment. URL ↩

Categories: Coastal Louisiana, Climate change, assessment, Adaptation, tribe, indigenous

2012 Southeast
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
Draut, A.E., Redsteer, M. Hiza and Amoroso, L., 2012, Recent seasonal variations in arid landscape cover and aeolian sand mobility, Navajo Nation, southwestern U.S.; Climates, Landscapes, and Civilizations Geophysical Union Monograph Series 198, p 51-60.

Categories: Drought, Aird Landscapes, Navajo Nation, Southwest, tribe, indigenous

2012 Southwest
Riley, R., P. Blanchard, R. Peppler, T. M. Bull Bennett, and D. Wildcat, 2012: Oklahoma Inter-Tribal Meeting on Climate Variability and Change: Meeting Summary Report. 23. URL ↩

Categories: Climate change, American Indians, tribe, indigenous

2012 United States
Farbotko, Carol, and Heather Lazrus 2012 The First Climate Refugees? Contesting Global Narratives of Climate Change in Tuvalu. Global Environmental Change 22:382–390.

Categories: Climate-induced displacement, Climate refugees, Migration, Adaptation, Everyday practice, Tuvalu, tribe, indigenous

2012 Global Link
Royster, J. V. (2012). Climate Change and Tribal Water Rights: Removing Barriers to Adaptation Strategies. Tul. Envtl. LJ, 26, 197.

Categories: Climate change, water rights, tribal water rights, reserved water rights, Indian water rights, tribe, indigenous

2012 United States
Ferris, E., 2012. Protection and Planned Relocations in the Context of Climate Change. UN High Commission of Refugees, Division of International Protection, Geneva, Switzerland.

Categories: Development-induced displacement, Climate change, resettlement, tribe, indigenous

2012 International Link