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
United States, Congress, “2016 USDA Resource Guide for American Indians & Alaska Natives .” 2016 USDA Resource Guide for American Indians & Alaska Natives , 2017 Categories: resource, USDA, Tribes, Tribal entities	2017	National	Link
USGS. 2017. Model development for climate-driven impacts to berry resources in Alaska. Categories: berries, conservation, management, sustainability, planning, policy, projections	2017	Alaska	Link
Profita, Cassandra. 2017. Climate Change Is Making Smoky, Unhealthy Air More Common. Categories: climate change, wildfire, asthma, heart disease, human health, risk, hazard, air quality, smoke, pollution	2017	Northwest, Pacific Northwest	Link
Watson, Teila. 2017. Indigenous knowledge systems can help solve the problems of climate change. Categories: climate change, adaptation, mitigation, TEK, traditional knowledge, Indigenous rights, Indigneous science, management, conservation	2017	Australia, Global, International	Link
Marks-Block, Tony. 2017. Karuk Tribe, Forest Service and EcoAdapt Meet to Explore Climate Change Adaptation. North Coast. Categories: climate change, prescribed burning, controlled burn, fire management, wildfire, risk, assessment, management, conservation, sustainability, planning, policy	2017	California, Oregon, West Coast, Pacific Northwest Coast	Link
Eilperin, J. 2017. The EPA just buried its climate change website for kids. Categories: climate change, youth, education, social justice, Obama administration, Trump administration,	2017	National	Link
Martinez, Danny. 2017. Cycle of Life (video). Categories: climate change, salmon, adaptation, subsistence, cultural resources, mitigation, social justice, environmental justice, tribal health, Warm Springs	2017	Warm Springs, Oregon, Northwest, Pacific Northwest	Link
Abatzoglou, J.T. and Rupp, D.E. In press. Evaluating climate model simulations of drought for the northwestern United States. International Journal of Climatology. DOI:10.1002/joc.5046 Categories: climate change, climate science, predictions, indicators, hydrology, planning, management	2017	Northwest, Global	Link
Landers, Rich. 2017. Columbia River sees near-record shad run; steelhead numbers are down. Categories: salmon, fisheries, tribal health, water health, watershed, climate change	2017	Oregon, Washington, Columbia River Basin	Link
Subbaraman, N. 2017. The Trump Administration’s Climate Denial Could Be Catastrophic For Tribes. Buzzfeed. Categories: climate change, trump administration, climate denial, stall, funding, support, policy, planning, federal support, vulnerability, at-risk communities, traditional foods, subsistence, economy	2017	Alaska, Gulf Coast, Washington, Canada, Oregon, California, Mexico, Texas, Northwest Coast, Pacific	Link
Davenport, M. E.P.A. Dismisses Members of Major Scientific Review Board. New York Times. Categories: climate change, climate change denial, denier, anti-science, corporate, EPA, agency reduction	2017	National	Link
Oregon Public Health Division. 2017. Climate and Health Equity. Categories: climate change, human helth, equity, adaptation, mitigation, planning, policy, management	2017	Oregon, Northwest, Pacific Northwest	Link
Page, Samantha. 2017. Tribal, environmental groups sue over methane rule delay. ThinkProgress. Categories: Trump Administration, climate change, tribes, legislation, policy, methane, BLM, emissions, standards	2017	United States	Link
Mcdermott, Amy. 2017. Growing change: Homegrown food is one safety net in a less stable world for Native Americans. SALON. Categories: food security, subsistence, climate change, diabetes, human health, food-borne illness, sustainability, commodities, garden,	2017	California, Smith River, Tolowa, West Coast, United States, Global, International, the Americas	Link
Geiling, Natasha. 2017. Climate kids to get their day in court against the Trump administration. Categories: OCT, climate change, lawsuit, federal court, legislation, policy, carbon, emissions, youth, social justice	2017	National	Link
Categories: climate change, natural disaster, human health, adaptation, mitigation, planning, policy, management, decison-making	2017	Oregon, Northwest, Pacific Northwest	Link
Why Native American Tribes Are In McCall To Plan For Climate Change. Boise State. 2016. Categories: climate change, traditional foods, drought, salmon, water rights, wildfires	2016.	United States, Northwest	Link
Darryl Fears. 2016. Scientists say climate change is threatening the lifeblood of Canada’s native people. Washington Post. Categories: Climate Impacts, Species Decline, Salmon	2016.	Alaska, National, International (Canada)	Link
Whitehouse. 2016. Federal Drought Plan. Categories: Drought, Planning, Climate Impacts, management, planning, policy, legislation, contingency, climate change, Obama archive	2016.	National	Link
Explaining Ocean Warming: Causes, scale, effects and consequences. IUCN. 2016. Categories: marine, coast, aquaculture, pacific, atlantic, climate change, adaptation, mitigation	2016	United States	Link
National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. 2016. A Review of the Landscape Conservation Coopeartives. Washington, D.C.: The National Academies Press. Categories: Review, Landscape Conservation Cooperatives	2016	National	Link
Whyte, Kyle, Indigenous Experience, Environmental Justice and Settler Colonialism (April 25, 2016). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2770058 Categories: Environmental Justice, Indigenous Peoples, INjustice, Responsibility, Settler Colonialism, Philosophy	2016	National, International	Link
Armatas, C. A., T. J. Venn, B. B. McBride, A. E. Watson, and S. J. Carver. 2016. Opportunities to utilize traditional phenological knowledge to support adaptive management of social-ecological systems vulnerable to changes in climate and fire regimes. Ecology and Society 21(1):16. Categories: adaptation planning, climate change, traditional knowledge, traditional ecological knowledge, Indigenous knowledge, ecology, stewardship, fire management	2016	Western United States	Link
Gilles, Nathan. Threat of Salmon Extinction Turns Small Tribe Into Climate Researchers. Yes!Magazine. 2016. Categories: fish havens, salmon heath, stream repopulation, watershed, temperature, climate change	2016	Washington state	Link
Morelli, T.L., Daly, C., Dobrowski, S.Z., Dulen, D.M., Ebersole, J.L., Jackson, S.T., Lundquist, J.D., Millar, C.I., Maher, S.P., Monahan, W.B. and Nydick, K.R., 2016. Managing climate change refugia for climate adaptation. PLoS One, 11(8), p.e0159909. Categories: climate change, refugia, policy, planning, management, technical skills, climate sciecne, climate projection, adaptation	2016	Glodal, International, United States	Link
Zhiliang Zhu and A. David McGuire (eds). 2016. Baseline and Projected Future Carbon Storage and Greenhouse-Gas Fluxes in Ecosystems of Alaska Categories: Climate Impacts, Methane, Climate Mitigation, Wildfire, Permafrost Thaw, Climate Assessment	2016	Alaska, Northwest	Link
Participation of Indigenous Peoples at the United Nations Categories: Indigenous Peoples, United Nations, Governmental Procedure	2016	International	Link
Stephen S. Ban, Hussein M. Alidina, Thomas A. Okey, Rachel M. Gregg, and Natalie C. Ban. Identifying potential marine climate change refugia: A case study in Canada’s Pacific marine ecosystems. CAKE. 2016. Categories: climate change, refugia, adaptation, mitigation, ocean, marine, aquaculture, climate science	2016	United States	Link
McDowell Group. 2016. Economic Impact Analysis: Southeast Alaska Transboundary Watershed. Juneau, Anchorage, Alaska: SalmonState. Categories: Southeast Alaska, transboundary, watershed, streamflow, economic concerns, Taku River, Stikine River, Unuk River, sport fishing, tour operations, policy and management, economic development, planning	2016	Alaska	Link
Whyte, Kyle, Indigenous Food Sovereignty, Renewal and U.S. Settler Colonialism (August 4, 2016). The Routledge Handbook of Food Ethics, Forthcoming. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2770056 Categories: Food Sovereignty, Cultural Revitalization, Political Sovereignty, Indigenous Rights, Settler Colonialism, Philosophy	2016	National, 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.