Tribal Climate Change Guide

The Tribal Climate Change Guide is part of the Pacific Northwest Tribal Climate Change Project (TCCP). The TCCP is part of the L.I.G.H.T. Foundation (LF), is an independent, Indigenous-led, conservation 501(c)(3) nonprofit established on the Colville Indian Reservation in the traditional territory of the Nespelem Tribe in present-day north central Washington State. LF supports the restoration and cultivation of native Plant and Pollinator Relatives and the culturally respectful conservation of habitats and ecosystems which are climate resilient and adaptive. For more information about LF, visit: https://thepnwlf.org/. For more information about the Tribal Climate Change Project, visit: https://tribalclimate.uoregon.edu/. If you would like to add information to this guide, please email kathy.lynn.or@gmail.com.

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 descending	Geography	Website
Kelly E, Gosnell H. 2014. Who Will Own the Mazama? Tribal Power and Forest Ownership in the Klamath Basin. Humboldt journal of social relations. 36: 102-117 Categories: Forest resources, Klamath Basin, tribe, indigenous	2014	Northwest	Link
Larsen, J.N., O.A. Anisimov, A. Constable, A.B. Hollowed, N. Maynard, P. Prestrud, T.D. Prowse, and J.M.R. Stone. 2014. Polar Regions. In: Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Part B: Regional Aspects. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Barros, V.R., C.B. Field, D.J. Dokken, M.D. Mastrandrea, K.J. Mach, T.E. Bilir, M. Chatterjee, K.L. Ebi, Y.O. Estrada, R.C. Genova, B. Girma, E.S. Kissel, A.N. Levy, S. MacCracken, P.R. Mastrandrea, and L.L. White (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York, pp. 1567-1612. Categories: Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation, vulnerability	2014	Global	Link
Laska, Shirley Tony Laska, Bob Gough, Jack Martin, Albert Naquin, and Kristina Peterson. 2014. Proposal for Isle de Jean Charles Relocation Planning. Indigenous Roots for Sustainable Futures: Proactive Solutions for a Time of Change. Categories: Relocation, resilience, tribe, indigenous	2014	Coastal Louisiana, Southeast	Link
Lennert, Mitdlarak. 2014. Greenland’s legal framework for non-renewable resource exploitation: The challenges of creating transparent public consultation processes. In Joan Nymand Larsen and Gail Fondahl, eds. Arctic Human Development Report. Regional Processes and Global Linkages. Copenhagen: Nordic Council of Ministers, pp. 276–280. Categories: Climate Change Adaptation, indigenous knowledge, tribe, indigenous	2014	Arctic	Link
Being Prepared for Climate Change: A Workbook for Developing Risk-Based Adaptation Plans. EPA. 2014. Categories: climate change, mitigation, adaptation, climate planning, climate science, water, EPA	2014	National	Link
Luber, G., K. Knowlton, J. Balbus, H. Frumkin, M. Hayden, J. Hess, M. McGeehin, N. Sheats, L. Backer, C. B. Beard, K. L. Ebi, E. Maibach, R. S. Ostfeld, C. Wiedinmyer, E. Zielinski-Gutiérrez, and L. Ziska, 2014: Ch. 9: Human Health. Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment, J. M. Melillo, Terese (T.C.) Richmond, and G. W. Yohe, Eds., U.S. Global Change Research Program, 220-256. doi:10.7930/J0PN93H5. Categories: Climate change, Human Health, health impacts	2014	United States	Link
Maldonado, J. K., Colombi, B., & Pandya, R. (2014). Climate change and indigenous peoples in the United States: Impacts, experiences and actions. Springer International Publishing. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-05266-3 Categories: Climate change, indigenous, tribe	2014	United States	Link
Maldonado, Julie Koppel. 2014a A Multiple Knowledge Approach for Adaptation to Environmental Change: Lessons Learned from Coastal Louisiana’s Tribal Communities. Journal of Political Ecology 21:61-82. Categories: Adaptation, Relocation, coastal Lousiana, Multiple knowledge approach, tribe, indigenous	2014	Southeast	Link
Swinomish Indian Tribe. 2014. Correlation and Climate Sensitivity of Human Health and Environmental Indicators in the Salish Sea. USGS. Categories: climate change, fisheries, shelfish, aquaculture, management, conservation, collaboration, international	2014	Canada, United States, British Columbia, Washington state, Puget Sound	Link
Maldonado, Julie Koppel. 2014c. Facing the Rising Tide: Co-occurring Disasters, Displacement, and Adaptation in Coastal Louisiana’s Tribal Communities. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, American University. Categories: vulnerability, Adaptation, impacts (livelihoods, Health, cultural), Relocation, Coastal Louisiana, tribe, indigenous	2014	Southeast	Link
University of Oregon. 2015. Tribal Climate Change Program. Available at: http://tribalclimate.uoregon.edu Categories: American Indians, Climate change, tribe, indigenous	2015		Link
Improving collaboration between Native Americans and climate scientists. 2015. MSU Today. Categories: Climate Science, Research Ethics, Native Climate Science	2015	Great Lakes, East	Link
Northwest Climate Science Center. 2015. Annual Report. Categories: Annual Report, Conservation, Science	2015	Northwest	Link
US DOI. 2015. Available at: www.DOI.gov Categories: Energy	2015		Link
Whyte, Kyle. 2015. What Do Indigenous Knowledges Do for Indigenous Peoples? SSRN. Categories: Traditional Knowledges (TKs), Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Governance, Science, Climate Impacts	2015	National	Link
Government Accountability Office. 2015. A National System Could Help Federal, State, Local, and Private Sector Decision Makers Use Climate Information. Categories: Climate Data, Review	2015	National	Link
Walker, R. 2015. Swinomish Tribe Files Lawsuit to Stop Bakken Crude Oil Trains. Indian Country Today Media Network. April 9, 2015. Available at: http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/04/09/swinomish-tribe-files-lawsuit-stop-bakken-crude-oil-trains-159938 Categories: Lawsuit, Swinomish, Bakken Crude Oil, Transportation, tribe, indigenous	2015	Pacfic Northwest	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. Categories: Indigenous peoples, climate change vulnerability, resilience, gender, identity	2015	National	Link
Welch, Craig. 2015. Why Alaska’s Inupiat Are Warming to Offshore Oil Drilling. The National Geographic http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/05/150522-Inupiat-Shell-offshore-oil-Arctic-Alaska-ocean-whale-sea/ (accessed June 24, 2015) Categories: Offshore oil drilling, Inupiat, tribe, indigenous	2015	Alaska, Arctic	Link
Wilson, N. J., Walter, M. T., & Waterhouse, J. (2015). Indigenous Knowledge of Hydrologic Change in the Yukon River Basin: A Case Study of Ruby, Alaska. ARCTIC, 68(1), 93-106. Categories: Climate change, Indigenous knowledge of water, socio-hydrology, river dynamics, Water Resources, tribe, indigenous	2015	Alaska	Link
Whyte, Kyle. 2015. The Ethics of Traditional Knowledge Exchange in Climate Change Initiatives. Earthzine. Categories: Ethics, Traditional Knowledges (TKs), Climate Initiatives	2015	National, International	Link
Sampson, Donald. Columbia River Basin Tribes Climate Change Capacity Assessment. Portland State University. 2015. Categories: climate change, climate science, adaptation, vulnerability assessment, planning, mitigation, development, policy	2015	Oregon, Washington state	Link
Burger, J., Gochfeld, M., Niles, L. et al. Environ Monit Assess (2015) 187: 102. doi:10.1007/s10661-014-4233-4 Categories: cultural health, traditional foods, revitalization, climate change, population, fisheries, marine health, economy, sociocultural impacts, human health, aviary health	2015	National	Link
A. Bakun, B.A. Black, S.J. Bograd, M. García-Reyes, A.J. Miller, R.R. Rykaczewski, W.J. Sydeman. 2015. Anticipated Effects of Climate Change on Coastal Upwelling Ecosystems. Current Climate Change Reports. 1: 85-93. Categories: Upwelling, Climate Impacts, Coastal Upwelling	2015	Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean	Link
Maldonado, JK, TMB Bennett, K Chief, P Cochran, K Cozzetto, B Gough, MH Redsteer, N Maynard, K Lynn, G Voggesser. 2015. Engagement With Indigenous Peoples and Honoring Traditional Knowledge Systems. Climatic Change. Categories: sustained assessment, TK, tribe, indigenous	2015	Global	Link
W. Matt Jolly, Mark A. Cochrane, Patrick H. Freeborn, Zachary A. Holden, Timothy J. Brown, Grant J. Williamson & David M. J. S. Bowman. 2015. Climate-induced variations in global wildfire danger from 1979 to 2013. Nature Communications (6). Categories: Wildfire, Climate Impacts, Wildfire Variability	2015	National, International	Link
Marino, Elizabeth. 2015. Fierce Climate, Sacred Ground: An Ethnography of Climate Change. University of Alaska Press. Categories: vulnerability, Adaptation, Relocation, tribe, indigenous	2015	Alaska, Arctic	Link
Thiele, R. 2015. Gun Lake Tribe Produces Documentary on Disappearing Wild Rice. NPR. [audio]. Categories: Wild Rice, Species Range Shifts, Documentary, Native Media	2015	East Coast, Midwest, Great Lakes	Link
Vickery, Jamie and Lori Hunter. 2015. Native Americans: Where in Environmental Justice Research? Society and Natural Resources Journal. Categories: Climate justice, American Indians, tribe, indigenous	2015	Global	Link
Categories: Public Health, adaptation, preparedness, air quality, climate change, extreme events	2015	National	Link

The Tribal Climate Change Guide is supported through partnerships between the University of Oregon Environmental Studies Program and the North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative, the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals and the Environmental Protection Agency Region 10 Tribal Program.
Questions about this Guide should be directed to kathy@uoregon.edu.