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
Moerlein KJ, Carothers C (2012) Total environment of change: impacts of climate change and social transitions on subsistence fisheries in northwest Alaska. Ecol Soc 17 Categories: Arctic, Climate change, environmental anthropology, Fisheries, human dimensions, local knowledge, social-ecological systems, subsistence, traditional ecological knowledge, tribe, indigenous	2012	Alaska	Link
Nakashima, D.J., Galloway McLean, K., Thulstrup, H.D., Ramos Castillo, A. and Rubis, J.T. 2012. Weathering Uncertainty: Traditional Knowledge for Climate Change Assessment and Adaptation. Paris, UNESCO, and Darwin, UNU, 10 pp. Categories: Resiliance, vulnerability, Traditional Knowledge, Adaptation, Climate change, indigenous peoples, tribe, indigenous	2012	Global	Link
NASA Earth Observatory, 2012: Visualizing the 2012 Sea Ice Minimum. NASA Earth Observatory, EOS Project Science Office, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. URL ↩ Categories: sea ice, Climate change	2012	Web article	Link
NOAA. 2012 Global Sea Level Rise Scenarios for the United States National Climate Assessment. NOAA Technical Report OAR CPO-1. http://scenarios.globalchange.gov/sites/default/files/NOAA_SLR_r3_0.pdf Categories: Sea Level Rise	2012	United States	Link
Norris, T., P. L. Vines, and E. M. Hoeffel, 2012: The American Indian and Alaska Native Population: 2010. 21 pp., U.S. Census Bureau. URL ↩ Categories: American Indian Population, tribe, indigenous	2012	United States
Alaska Department of Commerce and Community and Economic Development, 2012: Relocation Report: Newtok to Mertarvik. 58 pp., Alaska Department of Commerce and Community and Economic Development, Anchorage, AK. URL↩ Categories: relocation report, Newtok, tribe, indigenous	2012	Alaska, Arctic
Osborn R. 2012. Climate Change and the Columbia River Treaty. Washington Journal of Environmental Law & Policy. Vol 2.1. Pg. 75-123 Categories: Climate change, Columbia River Basin, Columbia River Treaty, hydropower, tribe, indigenous	2012	Northwest, Columbia River Basin, Oregon, Washington state	Link
Alaska Forum, 2012: Alaska Forum on the Environment. Alaska Forum on the Environment, 54. URL ↩	2012	Alaska, Arctic	Link
Overland, J. E., J. A. Francis, E. Hanna, and M. Wang, 2012: The recent shift in early summer Arctic atmospheric circulation. Geophysical Research Letters, 39, L19804, doi:10.1029/2012gl053268. URL ↩ Categories: Climate change	2012	Global	Link
American Indian Alaska Native Climate Change Working Group, 2012: American Indian Alaska Native Climate Change Working Group 2012 Spring Meeting. URL ↩ Categories: Climate change, Alaska, Alaska Native, tribe, indigenous	2012	Alaska, Arctic
Oyate Omniciye: Oglala Lakota Plan. 2012. Available at: http://www.oglalalakotaplan.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Oyate-Omniciye-Final-.pdf Categories: Adaptation Plan, Oglala Lakota Plan, Climate change, tribe, indigenous	2012	Southwest	Link
ANTHC, 2012: Local Environmental Observer (LEO) Network. Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium. URL ↩ Categories: Alaska Native, Health, Climate change, tribe, indigenous	2012	Alaska, Arctic
Parrotta, John A.; Agnoletti, Mauro. 2012. Traditional forest-related knowledge and climate change. pp. 491-533 (Chapter 13) in: Parrotta, John A. and Trosper, Ronald L., editors. Traditional Forest-Related Knowledge: Sustaining Communities, Ecosystems and Biocultural Diversity. World Forest Series vol. 12. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands. Categories: traditional knowledges, Forests, Climate change, tribe, indigenous	2012		Link
Blackburn, Marion. 2012. Return to the Trail of Tears. Archaeology 65(2):53-64. Categories: Historical Displacement, tribe, indigenous	2012	United States
Pautasso M., Döring T.F., Garbelotto M., Pellis l. and Jeger, M.J. (2012) Impacts of Climate Change on Plant Diseases—Opinions and Trends. European Journal of Plant Pathology, p.1-19. DOI 10.1007/s10658-012-9936-1. Categories: Adaptive ecosystem management Biotic interactions Landscape pathology Phytophthora ramorum Plant disease epidemiology Tree fungal pathogens	2012	Northwest	Link
Burkett, Virginia, and Margaret Davidson, eds. 2012 Coastal Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability: A Technical Input to the 2012 National Climate Assessment. Cooperative Report to the 2013 National Climate Assessment. Categories: Coastal Impacts, Adaptation, vulnerability	2012	Global	Link
Perdue, Theda. 2012. The Legacy of Indian Removal. The Journal of Southern History 78(1):3-36. Categories: Historical Displacement, tribe, indigenous	2012	Southwest
Cameron, E. S. (2012). Securing Indigenous politics: A critique of the vulnerability and adaptation approach to the human dimensions of climate change in the Canadian Arctic. Global Environmental Change, 22(1), 103-114. Categories: Traditional Knowledge, vulnerability, Adaptation, Inuit, indigenous, Climate change, Governmentality, colonialism, Resource extraction, shipping, Mining, Legibility, tribe, indigenous	2012	Arctic
Kathy Lynn. Fostering Tribal Engagement in Climate Science Centers and Landscape Conservation Cooperatives. 2012. Categories: Climate Science Center, Landscape Conservation Cooperatives, tribal engagement, climate initiatives	2012	National, United States	Link
Raftery M. 2012. Wind Storm: Tribes Implore President Obama To Stop Ocotillo Express Wind Project, Save Cultural Resource Sites Available At: http://www.eastcountymagazine.org/wind-storm-tribes-implore-president-obama-stop-ocotillo-express-wind-project-save-cultural-resource Categories: Renewable energy, tribe, indigenous	2012		Link
Coastal Louisiana Tribal Communities, 2012: Stories of Change: Coastal Louisiana Tribal Communities’ Experiences of a Transforming Environment (Grand Bayou, Grand Caillou/Dulac, Isle de Jean Charles, Pointe-au-Chien). Workshop Report Input into the National Climate Assessment. URL ↩ Categories: Coastal Louisiana, Climate change, assessment, Adaptation, tribe, indigenous	2012	Southeast
Riley, R., P. Blanchard, R. Peppler, T. M. Bull Bennett, and D. Wildcat, 2012: Oklahoma Inter-Tribal Meeting on Climate Variability and Change: Meeting Summary Report. 23. URL ↩ Categories: Climate change, American Indians, tribe, indigenous	2012	United States
Draut, A.E., Redsteer, M. Hiza and Amoroso, L., 2012, Recent seasonal variations in arid landscape cover and aeolian sand mobility, Navajo Nation, southwestern U.S.; Climates, Landscapes, and Civilizations Geophysical Union Monograph Series 198, p 51-60. Categories: Drought, Aird Landscapes, Navajo Nation, Southwest, tribe, indigenous	2012	Southwest
Donoghue, E. and Lynn, K. 2012. A Guide for Tribal Leaders on U.S. Climate Change Programs. Categories: Government programs, adaptation, mitigation, research	2012	National	Link
Royster, J. V. (2012). Climate Change and Tribal Water Rights: Removing Barriers to Adaptation Strategies. Tul. Envtl. LJ, 26, 197. Categories: Climate change, water rights, tribal water rights, reserved water rights, Indian water rights, tribe, indigenous	2012	United States
Farbotko, Carol, and Heather Lazrus 2012 The First Climate Refugees? Contesting Global Narratives of Climate Change in Tuvalu. Global Environmental Change 22:382–390. Categories: Climate-induced displacement, Climate refugees, Migration, Adaptation, Everyday practice, Tuvalu, tribe, indigenous	2012	Global	Link
Schaefer, K., Lantuit, H., Romanovsky, V., & Schuur, E. (2012). Policy implications of warming permafrost. Categories: Public policy, permafrost	2012	Alaska, Arctic
Chunxi Zhang, Yuqing Wang, Axel Lauer, and Kevin Hamilton, 2012: Configuration and Evaluation of the WRF Model for the Study of Hawaiian Regional Climate. Mon. Wea. Rev., 140, 3259–3277. Categories: Climate Modeling, Hawaiian Climate Projections	2012	Hawaii, Pacific	Link
Kirsty Galloway McLean. Land Use, Climate Change Adaptation, and Indigenous Peoples. 2012. Categories: current events, climate change, education, adaptation, TEK, TK	2012	National	Link
Ferris, E., 2012. Protection and Planned Relocations in the Context of Climate Change. UN High Commission of Refugees, Division of International Protection, Geneva, Switzerland. Categories: Development-induced displacement, Climate change, resettlement, tribe, indigenous	2012	International	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.