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
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
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
Lynn, Kathy. A Tribal Planning Framework -- Climate Change Adaptation Strategies by Sector. 2013. Categories: Adaptation, Planning	2013	National	Link
Wildcat, D.R. Climatic Change (2013) 120: 509. doi:10.1007/s10584-013-0849-6 Categories: DOI, climate change, adaptation, mitigation	2013	National	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
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
ITEP. 2013. Fact Sheet- Black Carbon Alaska. EPA. Categories: Alaska Native Villages, Black Carbon, emissions, Climate Mitigation, human health, visibility, factsheet	2013	Alaska, Northwest, Pacific Northwest, West Coast, Global, Arctic, United States	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
ITEP. 2013. Climate Change and Black Carbon: What it means for Tribes and what you can do.	2013	United States, National, Global, Arctic	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
Doyle J (2013) Exploring effects of climate change on Northern Plains American Indian health. Climatic Change 3: 643-655. Categories: Climate change, American Indian Health, Northern Plains, tribe, indigenous	2013		Link
ITEP. 2013. Climate Change and Fisheries: What it means to tribes and how we can adapt. Categories: fishery, water health, climate adaptation, resource management, fact sheet	2013	United States	Link
ITEP. 2013. Climate Change and Forestry: What it means to tribes and how we can adapt. Categories: parasites, invasive species, wildfire, precipitation, forest assessments, climate adaptation, fact sheet	2013	United States	Link
Egeland G, Harrison G (2013) Health disparities: promoting Indigenous Peoples’ health through traditional food systems and self-determination. In: Kuhnlein H., Erasmus B., Spigelski D., Burlingame B. (Eds.) 2013. Indigenous Peoples’ food systems & well-being interventions and policies for healthy communities. Categories: Health, Traditional foods, self determination, tribe, indigenous	2013	Global	Link
Fugate C. 2013. Changing laws for the better - recognizing tribal sovereignty. FEMA. Available at: https://www.fema.gov/blog/2013-01-31/changing-laws-better-recognizing-tribal-sovereignty Categories: Sovereignty, FEMA, Disasters, tribe, indigenous	2013	United States	Link
Gautam, M. R., K. Chief, and W. J. Smith, Jr., 2013: Climate change in arid lands and Native American socioeconomic vulnerability: The case of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe. Climatic Change, 120, 585-599, doi:10.1007/s10584-013-0737-0. URL ↩ Categories: vulnerability, adaptative capacity, tribe, indigenous	2013	Pyramid Lake Paiute	Link
Gearheard Fox, Shari, Kielsen Holm, Lene, Huntington, Henry P., Leavitt, Joe M., Mahoney, Andrew R., Opie, Margaret, Oshima, Toku and Joelie Sanguya, eds. 2013. The Meaning of Ice. People and Sea Ice in Three Arctic Communities. Hanover, NH: International Polar Institute Press. Categories: Climate change, sea ice, Inuit, Traditional Knowledge, Oral history, tribe, indigenous	2013	Arctic	Link
Grah, O., and J. Beaulieu, 2013: The effect of climate change on glacier ablation and baseflow support in the Nooksack River basin and implications on Pacific salmonid species protection and recovery. Climatic Change, 120, 657-670, doi:10.1007/s10584-013-0747-y.↩ Categories: traditional food, Salmon, tribe, indigenous	2013	Pacific Northwest	Link
Hansen T. 2013. Eight Tribes that are way ahead of climate-adaptation Curve. Indian Country Today Media Network. Available at: http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/10/15/8-tribes-are-way-ahead-climate-adaptation-curve-151763 Categories: Climate change, Adaptation, Mitigation, tribe, indigenous	2013	United States, Northwest, Southwest, Alaska	Link
Hoover, E. 2013. Cultural and health implications of fish advisories in a Native American community. BioMed Central Ltd. Categories: Fish advisories, Native American, Mohawk, Haudenosaunee, PCBs, Superfund, St. Lawrence River, Health risk assessment, tribe, indigenous	2013	Northeast	Link
Hat, Sr., A. White, and Papalii Failautusi Avegalio, 2012: personal communication.↩	2012
Tribal Water Working Group (University of New Mexico), 2012: Water in Indian Country: Categories: Climate change, water rights, tribe, indigenous	2012
Huntington, H. P., E. Goodstein, and E. Euskirchen, 2012: Towards a tipping point in responding to change: Rising costs, fewer options for arctic and global societies. AMBIO, 41, 66-74, doi:10.1007/s13280-011-0226-5.↩ Categories: Climate change costs Prevention Response Politics Economics Village relocation Forest fires Sea level rise Arctic, tribe, indigenous	2012	Arctic
Walker, R., 2012: Haida Gwaii Quake brings home the importance of Quileute relocation legislation. Indian Country Today Media Network.com. URL ↩ Categories: Relocation, Quileute, tribe, indigenous	2012	Northwest	Link
Indian Health Service [IHS] (2012) The Sanitation Facilities Construction Program of the Indian Health Service Public Law 86-121 Annual Report for 2010. Rockville, MD. Categories: Sanitation, tribe, indigenous	2012	United States
Wang, M., and J. E. Overland, 2012: A sea ice free summer Arctic within 30 years: An update from CMIP5 models.Geophysical Research Letters, 39, L18501, doi:10.1029/2012GL052868. URL ↩ Categories: sea ice, Arctic	2012	Arctic

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.