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
Earle, Lynda, 2011: Traditional Aboriginal Diets and Health. National Collaborating Centre for Aborignal Health.

Categories: Traditional foods, Indigenous health, Canada, tribe, indigenous

2011 Canada Link
Lynn, Kathy; MacKendrick, Katharine; and Donoghue, Ellen M. 2011. Social vulnerability and climate change: synthesis of literature. Gen. Tech. Rep.

Categories: social vulnerability, socioeconomic, cultural, political, social, health, climate justice, vulnerable populations, knowledge gaps, social impacts

2011 National, United States, International Link
Whyte, K. Powys, 2011: The recognition dimensions of environmental justice in Indian Country. Environmental Justice, 4, 185-186, doi:10.1089/env.2011.4401.↩

Categories: Environmental Justice, Native American environmental thought, environmental ethics, environmental policy, tribal governance, Indian environmental law, tribe, indigenous

2011 United States
Enarson, E. 2011. Does Violence Against Women Increase In Disasters?

Categories: Hurricane Katrina, gender based violence

2011 Southeast
Federal Emergency Management Agency (2011) The National Flood Insurance Program Community Status Book. Retrieved November 18, 2011, from http://www.fema.gov/fema/csb.shtm 2011
Ferguson, D. B., C. Alvord, M. Crimmins, H. M. Redsteer, M. Hayes, C. McNutt, R. Pulwarty, and M. Svoboda, 2011:Drought Preparedness for Tribes in the Four Corners Region. Report from April 2010 Workshop. Tucson, AZ: Climate Assessment for the Southwest. 42 pp., The Climate Assessment for the Southwest (CLIMAS), The Institute of the Environment, The University of Arizona. URL ↩

Categories: assessment, Four Corners Region, Drought, tribe, indigenous

2011 Southwest
Gary Harris (tech ed). 2011. Northwest Forest Plan - The First 15 Years [1994-2008]: Effectiveness of the Federal-Tribal Relationship. Tech. Paper R6-RPM-TP-01-2011. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region

Categories: Northwest, Forest plan, tribal integration, collaboration, monitoring tribal-federal relationships

2011 Northwest, Oregon, Northern California, Washington Link
Glicksman, R. L., C. O’Neill, Y. Huang, W. L. Andreen, R. K. Craig, V. B. Flatt, W. Funk, D. D. Goble, A. Kaswan, and R. R. M. Verchick, 2011: Climate Change and the Puget Sound: Building the Legal Framework for Adaptation. Lewis & Clark Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2011-18. Center For Progressive Reform. URL ↩

Categories: Puget Sound, Climate change, adaptationtribe, indigenous

2011 Northwest
Harris, S., and Harper, B., (2011) A Method for Tribal Environmental Justice Analysis. Vol. 4, No.4, Environmental Justice, p. 231-237.

Categories: Environmental Justice, National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), traditional lifeways, Risk Assessment, tribe, indigenous

2011 United States Link
Heyes, Scott A. 2011. Cracks in the knowledge: sea ice terms in Kangiqsualujjuaq, Nunavik. The Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe Canadien 55(1): 69–90.

Categories: Keywords:
sea ice, Inuit knowledge, knowledge transmission, generations, Inuktitut, tribe, indigenous

2011 Canada, Arctic Link
Hovelsrud, Grete, Krupnik, Igor, and Jeremy L. White. 2011. Human-based observing systems. In Understanding Earth’s Polar Challenges. International Polar Year, 2007–2008. Krupnik, Igor, Allison, Ian, Bell, Robin, Cutler, Paul, Hik, David, Lopéz-Martinéz, Jeronimo, Rachold, Volker, Summerheyes, Colin, and Eduard Sarukhanian, eds. Edmonton: Canadian Circumpolar Institute, pp. 435-456.

Categories: Antarctic, Arctic, International Polar Year, tribe, indigenous

2011 Arctic Link
ITEP, 2011: Tribal Profiles. Alaska - Athabascan Region. Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals. www4.nau.edu/tribalclimatechange/tribes/ak_athabascan.asp↩

Categories: Alaska, Athabascan Region, tribe, indigenous

2011 Alaska, Arctic
Kaufman, L., 2011: Seeing trends, coalition works to help a river adapt. The New York Times. URL ↩

Categories: Adaptation, salmon, fish health, Nisqually River, snowpack, flooding, stream flow

2011 Northwest Link
Klopotek, Brian. 2011. Recognition Odysseys: Indigeneity, Race, and Federal Tribal Recognition Policy in Three Louisiana Indian Communities. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Categories: Federal Recognition, Louisiana, Tunica-Biloxi, Jena Choctaws, Clifton-Choctaws, tribe, indigenous

2011 Southeast
Krakoff, S. 2011. Radical Adaptation, Justice, and American Indian Nations. Environmental Justice 4(4): 207-212.

Categories: Adaptation, historical removal from homelands, Cherokee Nation, environmental change, tribe, indigenous

2011 Southwest Link
Kukarenko, N. 2011. Climate change effects on human health in a gender perspective: some trends in Arctic research. Global Health Action. 4: 7913.

Categories: Climate change effects, Human Health, gender, Arctic, tribe, indigenous

2011 Arctic
Mack, M. C., S. M. Bret-Harte, T. N. Hollingsworth, R. R. Jandt, E. A. G. Schuur, G. R. Shaver, and D. L. Verbyla, 2011:Carbon loss from an unprecedented Arctic tundra wildfire. Nature, 475, 489-492, doi:10.1038/nature10283. URL ↩

Categories: Climate science Earth science Ecology Environmental science

2011 Arctic Link
Culotta, Kenneth; Fallon, Denis and Southalan, John. 2011. Indigenous People and Resources Development - A Rapidly Changing Legal Landscape. Oil, Gas & Energy Law 4.

Categories: Energy Development, Indigenous Peoples

2011 National, International Link
Mahoney, M. (2011) This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land: An Historical Narrative of an Intergenerational Controversy over Public Use Management of the San Francisco Peaks. M.S. Thesis, Arizona State University, 103p.

Categories: Sustainability, Modern History, Environmental Studies, Intergenerational equity, Land use policy, Law, Native American studies, Particapatory mechanisms, Reclaimed wastewater, tribe, indigenous

2011 Southwest Link
McNeeley SM, Shulski MD (2011) Anatomy of a closing window: vulnerability to changing seasonality in Interior Alaska. Global Environ Chang 21:464–473

Categories: Climate change, vulnerability, Sensitivity, Adaptation, Multiple stressors, Indigenous observations and understanding of climate, tribe, indigenous

2011 Alaska, Arctic
Alexander C., Bynum N., Johnson E., King U., Mustonen T., Neofotis P., Oettlé N., Rosenzweig C., Sakakibara C., Shadrin V., Vicarelli M., Waterhouse J. and Weeks B. (2011) Linking Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge of Climate Change. BioScience, Vol. 61 no.6, p. 477-484.

Categories: Climate change, observed impacts, indigenous knowledge, assessment, temperature change, tribe, indigenous

2011 Global Link
Miller, David W. 2011 The Taking of American Indian Lands in the Southeast: A History of Territorial Cessions and Forced Relocations, 1607-1840. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company Inc.

Categories: Historical relocations, Southeast, tribe, indigenous

2011 Southeast
Alvord, C. 2011. Overview of the NIDIS Four Corners Pilot Activities: National Integrated Drought Information System, Volume 2, Issue 1. Retrieved November 18, 2011, from http://www.drought.gov/imageserver/NIDIS/newsletter/NIDIS_Newsletter_Winter_2011.pdf

Categories: Drought

2011 Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin, Alabama Link
Feifel, K. (2010). Stream Temperature Monitoring Network for Cook Inlet Salmon Streams [Case study on a project of Cook Inletkeeper]. Product of EcoAdapt's State of Adaptation Program. Retrieved from CAKE: www.cakex.org/case-studies/stream-temperature-monitoring-network-cook-in... (Last updated March 2010)

Categories: water temperature, stream monitoring, Cook Inlet Watershed, salmon, planning, adaptation

2010, updated in 2019 Cook Inlet, Alaska Link
Haufler, J.B., C.A. Mehl, and S. Yeats. 2010. Climate change: anticipated effects on ecosystem services and potential actions by the Alaska Region, U.S. Forest Service. Ecosystem Management Research Institute, Seeley Lake, Montana, USA.

Categories: Southeast Alaska, planning, policy, conservation, collaboration, partnership, forestry, management, vulnerability assessment, climate adaptation plan

2010 Alaska Link
Sanchez-Cortes, M.S. and Chavero, E.L. (2010) Indigenous Perception of Changes in Climate Variability and its Relationship with Agriculture in a Zoque Community, Chiapas, Mexico. Climatic Change, DOI 10.1007/s1584-010-9972-9.

Categories: perceptions climate knowledge changes in climate variability chichón Volcano Zoque indigenous, tribe

2010 International Link
Clark, R., A. Ott, M. Rabe, D. Vincent-Lang, and D. Woodby. 2010. The effects of a changing climate on key habitats in Alaska. Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Special Publication No. 10-14, Anchorage.

Categories: Southeast Alaska, climate change, planning, policy, monitoring, climate projections, climate modeling, Sitka, salmon, shellfish, crab, herring, forest, coastal, subsistence, fishing, hunting, fisheries

2010 Alaska Link
Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, 2010: Swinomish Climate Change Initiative Climate Adaptation Action Plan. 144 pp., Swinomish Indian Tribal Community Office of Planning and Community Development, La Conner, WA. URL ↩

Categories: Swinomish, Adaptation Plan, tribe, indigenous

2010 Northwest Link
Sydell, L., 2010: FCC Eyes Broadband for Indian Reservations. NPR News. URL ↩

Categories: Reservations, Telecommunications, tribe, indigenous

2010 United States Link
The Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) 2010. Fact Sheet: Women, Disasters, and Hurricane Katrina.

Categories: Violence against women, Disasters, Hurricane Katrina

2010 Southeast