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
Ford J, Furgal C (2009) Climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability in the Arctic. Polar Res 28:1–9

Categories: Adaptation, Arctic, Climate change, environmental change, vulnerability, tribe, indigenous

2009 Arctic Link
Sloan, K. (2009). Climate Change Issues & Needs for the Yurok Tribe. Impacts of Climate Change on Tribes in the United States, National Tribal Air Association. Attachment L.

Categories: Yurok tribe, tribe, indigenous, Climate change

2009
Higuera, P. E., L. B. Brubaker, P. M. Anderson, T. A. Brown, A. T. Kennedy, and F. S. Hu, 2008: Frequent fires in ancient shrub tundra: Implications of paleorecords for arctic environmental change. PLoS ONE, 3, e0001744, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001744. URL ↩

Categories: Arctic, Fires, environmental change

2008 Alaska, Arctic Link
Ford, J. D., and L. Berrang-Ford, 2009: Food security in Igloolik, Nunavut: An exploratory study. Polar Record, 45, 225-236, doi:10.1017/S0032247408008048.↩

Categories: Food Security, food insecurity, Traditional foods, tribe, indigenous

2009 Canada, Arctic Link
Swinomish Indian Tribal Community. 2009. Swinomish Climate Change Initiative Impact Assessment Technical Report.

Categories: Impact Assessment, Vulnerability Assessment, tribe, indigenous

2009 Northwest
James, K., Hall, D., and Redsteer, M. H., (2008) Organizational Environmental Justice with a Navajo (Diné) Nation Case Example. In Research in Social Issues in Management, Stephen Gilliland, Dirk Steiner, and Daniel Skarlicki, eds.; Information Age Publishing, Greenwich, CT, p.263-290.

Categories: enviromental injustice, Reservation, Environmental management, Environmental Protection, Coal mining, Navajo Nation, Diné, tribe, indigenous, Environmental Justice

2008 Southwest
Freudenberg, William R., Robert Gramling, Shirley Laska, and Kai T. Erikson 2009 Catastrophe in the Making: The Engineering of Katrina and the Disasters of Tomorrow. Washington, DC: Island Press. 2009
Trainor, S. F., S. F. Chapin, III, D. A. McGuire, M. Calef, N. Fresco, M. Kwart, P. Duffy, A. Lauren Lovecraft, S. T. Rupp, L. ’O. DeWilde, O. Huntington, and D. C. Natcher, 2009: Vulnerability and adaptation to climate-related fire impacts in rural and urban interior Alaska. Polar Research, 28, 100-118, doi:10.1111/j.1751-8369.2009.00101.x.

Categories: Climate change fire impacts, vulnerability, Adaptation, Alaska, tribe, indigenous

2009 Alaska, Arctic
Jenkins, P. Phillips, B. 2008. Domestic Violence and Hurricane Katrina.

Categories: Domestic violence, Hurricane Katrina

2008 Southeast
GAO, 2009: Alaska Native Villages: Limited Progress Has Been Made on Relocating Villages Threatened By Flooding and Erosion. Government Accountability Office Report GAO-09-551. 53 pp., U.S. Government Accountability Office. URL ↩

Categories: Alaska Native, Relocation, tribe, indigenous

2009 Arctic, Alaska
Turner, N.J., and H. Clifton, 2009: “It’s so different today”: Climate change and indigenous lifeways in British Columbia, Canada. Global Environmental Change 19:180–190.

Categories: Climate change, indigenous peoples, traditional ecological knowledge, British Columbia, Adaptation, resilience, tribe, indigenous

2009 Canada Link
Krakoff, S., 2008: American Indians, Climate Change, and Ethics for a Warming World. University of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-19. Denver University Law Review. URL ↩

Categories: indigenous, tribe, Climate change, ethnics, Treaties

2008 United States Link
Karl, T. R., J. T. Melillo, and T. C. Peterson, 2009: Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States. T.R. Karl, J.T. Melillo, and T.C. Peterson, Eds. Cambridge University Press, 189 pp. URL ↩

Categories: Climate change, Water Resources, Energy, Transportation, Agriculture, ecosystems, Human Health, Society

2009 United States
USACE. 2009. Alaska Baseline Erosion Assessment Study Findings and Technical Report. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Alaska District. http://www.poa.usace.army.mil/Library/Reports-and-Studies/Alaska-Baseline-Erosion-Assessments/ (accessed 24 June, 2015). 2009 Link
Laidler, Gita J. and Teo Ikummaq. 2008. Human Geographies of Sea Ice: Freeze/thaw processes around Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada. Polar Record 44 (229): 127-153

Categories: sea ice, Inuit knowledge, Language, environmental change, tribe, indigenous

2008 Arctic Link
Laidler, G. J., J. D. Ford, W. A. Gough, T. Ikummaq, A. S. Gagnon, S. Kowal, K. Qrunnut, and C. Irngaut, 2009: Travelling and hunting in a changing Arctic: Assessing Inuit vulnerability to sea ice change in Igloolik, Nunavut. Climatic Change, 94, 363-397, doi:10.1007/s10584-008-9512-z.↩

Categories: vulnerability, sea ice change, Traditional Knowledge, Arctic, tribe, indigenous

2009 Canada, Arctic Link
WAPA, 2009: Wind and Hydropower Feasibility Study, Final Report. For Section 2606 of the Energy Policy Act of 1992, as amended by Section 503(a) of the Energy Policy Act of 2005. 286 pp., Western Area Power Administration, Stanley Consultants, Inc. URL

Categories: Energy, Wind, hydropower

2009 United States
McNutt, D., 2008: Native Peoples: The "Miners Canary" on Climate Change. 16 pp., Northwest Indian Applied Research Institute, Evergreen State College. URL ↩

Categories: tribe, indigenous

2008
Upagiaqtavut. Setting the Course. Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation in Nunavut. 2010. Iqaluit: Government of Nunavut.

Categories: tribe, indigenous

2010
Lenarz MS, Nelson ME, Schrage MW, Edwards AJ. (2009): Temperature Mediated Moose Survival in Northeastern Minnesota. The Journal of Wildlife Management, 73: 503–510.

Categories: Alces alces, Climate change, critical temperature threshold, distribution, Minnesota, moose, mortality, survival, tribe, indigenous

2009 Northwest Link
Weaver, H. 2009. The colonial context of violence: reflections on violence in the lives of Native American women. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 24: 1552-1563.

Categories: colonialism, Violence, American Indian women

2009
Verbrugge, L., 2010: Traditional Foods in Alaska: Potential Threats from Contaminants and Climate Change. State of Alaska Division of Public Health. URL ↩

Categories: traditional food, Climate change, tribe, indigenous

2010 Alaska, Arctic
McClintock, S. E., 2009: Ch. 17: Coastal and riverine erosion challenges: Alaskan villages’ sustainability. Climate Change And Arctic Sustainable Development: Scientific, Social, Cultural And Educational Challenges,, UNESCO, 120.

Categories: Alaska, Erosion, Sustainability, tribe, indigenous

2009 Arctic, Alaska Link
Whitt, L. (2009). Science, colonialism, and indigenous peoples: The cultural politics of law and knowledge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Categories: indigenous people, tribe, legal system, Traditional Knowledge, legal ideologies, intellectual property rights, Western Science, colonialism

2009 International Link
Wisniewski, Josh. 2010. Knowing about Sigu: Kigiqtaamiut hunting as an experiential pedagogy. ). In SIKU: Knowing Our Ice. Documenting Inuit Sea Ice Knowledge and Use. Igor Krupnik, Claudio Aporta, Shari Gearheard, Gita J. Laidler, and Lene Kielsen Holm, eds. Dorderecht: Springer, pp. 275–294.

Categories: tribe, indigenous

2010
McLean, Kirsty Galloway, Ameyali Ramos-Castillo, Tony Gross, Sam Johnston, Marjo Vierros, and Rahera Noa 2009. Report of the Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit on Climate Change. April 20-24. Anchorage, Alaska. United Nations University—Traditional Knowledge Initiative, Darwin, Australia.

Categories: Traditional Knowledge, Global Summit, tribe, indigenous

2009 Global
Wildcat, D. R., 2009: Red Alert!: Saving the Planet with Indigenous Knowledge. Fulcrum Publishing, 148 pp.

Categories: Climate change, Traditional Knowledge, Resiliance, tribe, indigenous

2009 Global
Arctic Council. 2009. Tromsø Declaration. On the occasion of the Sixth Ministerial Meeting of the Arctic Council, the 29th of April, 2009, Tromsø, Norway. https://2009-2017.state.gov/e/oes/rls/other/2009/123483.htm (accessed June 22, 2015).

Categories: indigenous, tribe, arctic residents, global climate change, arctic warming

2009 Arctic, Coastal, Norway Link
Oliver-Smith, Anthony. 2009 Development and Dispossession: The Crisis of Forced Displacement and Resettlement. Santa Fe, New Mexico: School for Advanced Research Press.

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

2009 Southwest
Alessa L, Kliskey A, Busey R, Hinzman L, White D (2008) Freshwater vulnerabilities and resilience on the Seward Peninsula: integrating multiple dimensions of landscape change. Global Environ Chang 18:256–270

Categories: Arctic, Landscape change, resilience, Social–ecological systems, vulnerability, Mapping, tribe, indigenous

2008 Arctic Link