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
Thackeray L (2012) 2012 Montana wildfires burn most acreage since 1910. Billings Gazette. 11/1/2012. Billings, MT Categories: Wildfire	2012	Northwest	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
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
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
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
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
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
WATER IN INDIAN COUNTRY: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES A REPORT PREPARED BY THE TRIBAL WATER WORKING GROUP Categories: water quality, water quantity, ecosystems, Fisheries, Climate change, tribal water rights, tribe, indigenous	2012	Southwest, United States	Link
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
Ingram KT, Dow K, Carter L, 2012: Southeast Region Technical Report to the National Climate Assessment. Categories: Adaptation, extreme weather, climate impacts, Climate Modeling, climate variability, Coastal, Drought, Education, electric intrusion, Sea Level Rise, silviculture, social vulnerability, Southeast, storm surge, tropical, Mitigation	2012	Southeast	Link
The Government-to-Government Relationship in a Changing Climate: A review of federal consultation policies Categories: Consultation, Federal Policy	2012	National	Link
Willox, A. C. 2012. "Climate Change as the Work of Mourning." Ethics & the Environment 17(2): 137-164. Categories: mourning, vulnerability	2012		Link
Laska, Shirley. 2012. Dimensions of Resiliency: Essential, Exceptional, and Scale. International Journal of Critical Infrastructure 6(3): 246-276. Categories: Katrina, essential vulnerability, multiple hazards, infrastructure and social linkages, exceptional recovery, scale	2012	Southeast	Link
Yazzie, D. H., Chee, C., Darden, S. A., Gleason, I., Denetdale, J. N. (2012) The Impact Of The Navajo-Hopi Land Settlement Act Of 1974 P.L. 93-531 et al. Public Hearing Report: July 2012. Categories: Navajo-Hopi Land Settlement Act, Forced relocation, Impacts of forced relocation, human rights	2012	Southwest
Lazrus, Heather. 2012. Sea Change: Island Communities and Climate Change. Annual Review of Anthropology 41: 285-301. Categories: vulnerability, resilience, Adaptation, Migration, justice, sea of islands, Climate-induced displacement, Island communities, tribe, indigenous	2012	Global	Link
MacDougall, A. H., C. A. Avis, and A. J. Weaver, 2012: Significant contribution to climate warming from the permafrost carbon feedback. Nature Geoscience, 5, 719-721, doi:10.1038/ngeo1573.↩ Categories: Biogeochemistry Climate science Cryospheric science	2012
Maldonado, Julie 2012 A New Path Forward: Researching and Reflecting on Forced Displacement and Resettlement. Journal of Refugee Studies 25(2):193-220. Categories: Development, forced displacement, resettlement, tribe, indigenous	2012	Global	Link
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
Marino, Elizabeth. 2012. The long history of environmental migration: Assessing vulnerability construction and obstacles to successful relocation in Shishmaref, Alaska. Global Environmental Change 22(2):374–381. Categories: Environmental migration, vulnerability, Adaptation, Governance, Inequity, Alaska, tribe, indigenous	2012	Alaska, Arctic	Link
Marra, J.J., Keener, V.W., Finucane, M.L., Spooner, D., Smith, M.H. [Editors] (2012). Climate Change and Pacific Islands: Indicators and Impacts. Report for The 2012 Pacific Islands Regional Climate Assessment (PIRCA). Honolulu, Hawai‘i, USA. Categories: Climate change, climate variability, Pacific islands, freshwater resources, hydrology, Drought, Flooding, coastal inundation, sea-level rise, Adaptation, island ecosystems, Climate Modeling, ENSO, data and monitoring, Fisheries, climate risks, Downscaling, extreme events, climate change indicators, atolls, coral reefs, decision making, Natural Resource Management	2012		Link
McNeeley, S. M. (2012). Examining barriers and opportunities for sustainable adaptation to climate change in Interior Alaska. Climatic Change, 111(3-4), 835-857. Categories: Climate change, Adaptation, Alaska	2012	Alaska	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
Michelle, N., 2012: Uses of Plant Food-Medicines in the Wabanaki Bioregions of the Northeast; a Cultural Assessment of Berry Harvesting Practices and Customs. University of Maine, Orono.↩ Categories: Climate change, Traditional foods, Berry Harvesting, Cultrual practices, tribe, indigenous	2012	Northeast
Middleton, BM. (2012) “Just Another Hoop to Jump Through?” Using Environmental Laws and Processes to Protect Indigenous RightsEnvironmental management. 52:5. Categories: Environmental law Site protection Native American Indigenous Human rights Cultural resources, tribe, indigenous	2012
The Nature Conservancy. 2012. Klawock River, Salmon Passage and Habitat Restoration Project Final Report. Prepared for NOAA Restoration Center. The Working Forest Group. 2013. Consolidated young growth forest land base analysis for all land ownership in Southeast Alaska and recommendations for federal land managers. Prepared at the request of: USDA Forest Service, Alaska Region. Categories: Southeast Alaska, Klawock Community Association, Klawock Heenya Corporation, watershed, hydrology	2012	Alaska	Link
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
ITEP. 2012. Climate Change and Drought: What it means to tribes and how we can adapt. Categories: drought, water, irrigation, agriculture, cultural resources, climate adaptation, livestock, crops,	2012	United States	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

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.