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 ascending	Geography	Website
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
Whyte, K.P 2014. “A Concern About Shifting Interactions between Indigenous and Nonindigenous Parties in U.S. Climate Adaptation Contexts.” Interdisciplinary Environmental Review 15 (2/3): 114-133. Categories: Climate justice, Environmental Justice, treaty rights, indigenous peoples, tribal jurisdiction, Climate Change Adaptation, indigenous resilience, indigenous sustainability, tribe, indigenous	2014	US, Canada	Link
NOAA, 2014. Status Review of Southeast Alaska Herring (Clupea pallasi): Threats Evaluation and Extinction Risk Analysis. National Marine Fisheries Service, Alaska Region. Categories: Southeast Alaska, climate change, herring, pacific herring, fisheries, habitat, spawning, stream influence	2014	Alaska	Link
Hong, E., Perkins, R., & Trainor, S. (2014). Thaw Settlement Hazard of Permafrost Related to Climate Warming in Alaska. Arctic, 67(1), 93-103. Categories: Permafrost Settlement Hazard Index, permafrost, thaw subsidence, thaw settlement, thaw settlement risk in Alaska, climate warming	2014	Alaska, Arctic	Link
Whitehouse.gov. 2014. , “President’s State, Local, and Tribal Leaders Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience” Available at: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/task_force_report_0.pdf Categories: tribe, Climate change, Adaptation, Mitigation, resilience, indigenous	2014	United States	Link
Whyte, K.P., M. Dockry, W. Baule, D. Fellman, 2014. Supporting Tribal Climate Change Adaptation Planning Through Community Participatory Strategic Foresight Scenario Development. In: Project Reports. D. Brown, W. Baule, L. Briley, and E. Gibbons, eds. Available from the Great Lakes Integrated Sciences and Assessments (GLISA) Center. http://glisa.umich.edu/media/files/projectreports/GLISA_ProjRep_Strategic-Foresight.pdf Categories: Strategic foresight, adaptation planning, Menominee Theoretical Model of Sustainability, Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Red Lake Nation, Oneida Tribe of Wisconsin, tribe, indigenous	2014	Midwest	Link
Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC). 2014. The sea ice never stops. Circumpolar Inuit reflections on sea ice use and shipping in Inuit Nunaat. Ottawa: Inuit Circumpolar Council – Canada. Categories: ICC, SDWG, inuit circumpolar council, arctic council, sea ice, shipping, indigenous, tribe	2014	Arctic	Link
Alaska Department of Fish and Game, 2014.Yakutat Comprehensive Salmon Plan: Phase II. Developed by Yakutat Regional Planning Team. Categories: Southeast Alaska, Yakutat, NCSA, Native Allotment Act, Native Townsite Act, "local utilization” (79), subsistence, customary, traditional, fisheries, salmon, adaptation plans, vulnerability assessment	2014	Alaska	Link
Willox et al. 2014. Examining relationships between climate change and mental health in the Circumpolar North. Reg Environ Change. Categories: Climate change, Mental health, Circumpolar North, indigenous, Arctic, tribe	2014	Arctic	Link
IPCC, 2014: Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Core Writing Team, R.K. Pachauri and L.A. Meyer (eds.)]. IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland, 151 pp. Categories: Climate change, Assessment Report	2014	International	Link
Wilson N. 2014. The Politics of Adaptation: Subsistence Livelihoods and Vulnerability to Climate Change in the Koyukon Athabascan Village of Ruby, Alaska. Human Ecology. February 2014, Volume 42, Issue 1, pp 87-10 Categories: Adaptation Climate change Equity and justice Indigenous peoples Subsistence livelihoods Vulnerability Alaska, tribe, indigenous	2014	Alaska	Link
Jenni K, Graves D, Hardiman J, Hatten J, Mastin M, Mesa M, Montag JM, Nieman T, Voss F, Maule A (2014) Identifying stakeholder-relevant climate change impacts: a case study in the Yakima River Basin, Washington, USA. Clim Chang Categories: Yakima River Basin, Climate change, Traditional Knowledge, tribe, indigenous	2014	Northwest	Link
Wood M. (2014) "Tribal Environmental Leaders summit keynote address: Tribal Trustees in Climate Change" Categories: American Indian Law, Land Management, tribe, indigenous	2014	United States	Link
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
ITEP. 2014. Climate Change and Water Resources: What it means to tribes and how we can adapt. Categories: climate adaptation. climate mitigation, water health, infrastructure, sea level, acidification, drought, flood, water access, fact sheet	2014	United States	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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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.