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 Sort ascending	Year	Geography	Website
United States Forest Service. 2017. Tribal Relations News and Events, Summer 2017. Categories: Tribal relations, collaboration, interagency, federal assistance, trust relationship, Shawnee, Tlingit, Cherokee, Hopi, Apache, huckleberries	2017	Washington state, Oklahoma, National, United States	Link
United Nations. n.d. Backgrounder: Climate change and indigenous peoples. Categories: Climate Impacts on Indigenous Peoples, Policy, Adaptation, Mitigation	2007	International	Link
United Nations. 2000. Special Rapporteur on the right to food. Categories: food justice, accessibility, resource allocation, availability, social justice, human rights	2000	International, Global	Link
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (2014) "Report on the meeting on available tools for the use of indigenous and traditional knowledge and practices for adaptation, needs of local and indigenous communities and the application of gender-sensitive approaches and tools for adaptation" Categories: traditional knowledges, Adaptation, gender, tribe, indigenous	2014	Global	Link
UNFCCC. 1992. United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. New York: United Nations - http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/convkp/conveng.pdf (accessed April 14, 2015).	1992
UNEP, 2007: Global Outlook for Ice and Snow. United Nations Environment Programme. URL ↩ Categories: Snow, sea ice, Ice Sheets, Glaciers and Ice Caps, Frozen Ground, River and Lake Ice, policy	2003	Global	Link
Underwater: Rising Seas, Chronic Floods, and the Implications for US Coastal Real Estate. (2018). Union of Concerned Scientists, 1-28. Retrieved July 11, 2018, from https://www.cakex.org/documents/underwater-rising-seas-chronic-floods-and-implications-us-coastal-real-estate Categories: disaster risk management, infrastructure, flooding, sea level rise, capacity building, monitoring, climate change, adaptation	2018	US coastlines	Link
UN Denounces Abuse of Free Assembly Rights for Water Protectors Standing Against DAPL. ICTMN. 2016. Categories: climate change, fossil fuels, carbon emissions, civil rights, self-determination, sovereignty, planning, policy, international law, water, oil, pipeline	2016	North Dakota, Midwest, National	Link
UCAR congressional briefing highlights flood, drought prediction: Nation poised to make major advances in "water intelligence". UCAR. 2016. Categories: traditional knowledge, indigenous, climate science, water health, water rights, protection	2016	National	Link
Ubelaker, Douglas H., ed. 2006. Handbook of North American Indians. Vol. 3. Environment, Origins, and PopulationWashington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, pp. 222–235. Categories: tribe, indigenous	2006
UBC News. 2016. Climate change could cut First Nations fisheries’ catch in half. Categories: Salmon, Herring, Population Decline, Climate Impacts	2016	Northwest, International (Canada), British Columbia	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
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (2014) 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	2014	United States	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
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (1996) 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: American Indian, Housing, tribe, indigenous	1996	United States
U.S. Department of Energy Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs. 2016. DOE Office of Indian Energy Strategic Roadmap 2025: Energy.gov/indianenergy. Categories: Energy Development, Energy Deployment, Energy, Infrastructure, Development.	2016	National	Link
U.S. Congress (1830) Twenty-First Congress. Session I. Chapter 148. Statute I. May 28. In A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875, Statutes at Large, 21st Congress, 1st Session, http://memory.loc.gov/	1830
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 2003: A Quiet Crisis: Federal Funding and Unmet Needs in Indian Country. 139 pp.URL ↩ Categories: tribe, indigenous, federal funding	2003
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (2004). Broken Promises: Evaluating the Native American Health Care System, 155 p. https://www.usccr.gov/files/pubs/docs/nabroken.pdf Categories: Health, civil rights, tribe, indigenous	2004	United States	Link
U.S. Census Bureau, 1995: Housing of American Indians on Reservations - Plumbing. Bureau of the Census Statistical Brief, Issued April 1995, SB/95-9. 4 pp., U.S. Census Bureau, Washington, D.C. URL ↩ Categories: Housing, Plumbing, Reservation, tribe, indigenous	1995	United States
U.S. Census Bureau, 1995: Housing of American Indians on Reservations - Equipment and Fuels. Bureau of the Census Statistical Brief, Issued April 1995, SB/95-11. 4 pp., U.S. Census Bureau, Washington, D.C. URL ↩ Categories: Housing, Equipment and Fuels, Reservation, tribe, indigenous	1995	United States
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
Turner, R.E. (1997) Wetland Loss in the Northern Gulf Of Mexico: Multiple Working Hypotheses.	1997		Link
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
Turner, N. J., R. Gregory, C. Brooks, L. Failing, and T. Satterfield. 2008. From invisibility to transparency: Identifying the implications. Ecology and Society 13(2): 7. Categories: First Nations, decision making, resource use, negotiations, cultural values, tribe, indigenous	2008	Western North America
Tulalip, Swinomish Preserve Forest and Salmon Habitat With Two Significant Initiatives. Indian Country Toady. 2015. Categories: Conservation, coastal habitat, wetlands, habitat restoration, climate adaptation	2015	Northwest, Pacific Northwest, Puget Sound, Washington, West coasr	Link
Tsosie, R. 2007. Indigenous People and Environmental Justice: The Impact of Climate Change, University of Colorado Law Review, Vol. 78, p. 1625-1677. Categories: Climate change, Environment, tribe, indigenous, Environmental Justice	2007	Global	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
Trump Administration. 2017. Fiscal Year 2018 The Interior Budget in Brief May 2017. Categories: Trump administration, budget, resource, allocation, financial assistance, budget cuts, programming	2017	National	Link
Trosper, R.L., 2007. Indigenous influence on forest management on the Menominee Indian Reservation. Forest ecology and management, 249(1), pp.134-139.	2007	Wisconsin	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.