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
Sequim Gazette. 2016. Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe builds logjams for salmon habitat. Categories: salmon, migration, habitat, restoration, climate change, spawning, fishing, cultural resources	2016	Washington, Pacific Northwest	Link
Abbey Kessler. 2016. Western tribes struggle to adapt as reservoirs shrivel. Greenwire: E&E News. Categories: Drought, Climate Adaptation, Disaster	2016	West, National	Link
Photo Diary: A Week in Rural Alaska Where Climate Change Is Threatening a Village, Its School and Way of Life. The 74 Magazine. 2016. Categories: climate change, relocation, erosion, infrastructure, school	2016	Alaska, Arctic, Bering Sea	Link
Matt Richtel and Fernanda Santosapril. 2016. Wildfires, Once Confined to a Season, Burn Earlier and Longer. New York Times. Categories: Wildfire, Climate Change	2016	National	Link
AMS. 2016. State of the Climate in 2015. Categories: climate science, climate change, climate assessment, monitoring	2016	National, Global, International	Link
Flaccus, Gillian. Tribe trucks totem pole 7,700 km across U.S. and Canada in fossil fuels protest. National Post. 2016. Categories: cliamte change, demonstration, protest, solidarity, social justice, native networks	2016	Washington state, National	Link
Thomas W. Doyle, Bogdan Chivoiu, and Nicholas M. Enwright . 2015. Sea-level rise modeling handbook: Resource guide for coastal land managers, engineers, and scientists. Report submitted to USGS. Categories: Sea-level Rise, Climate Modeling, Guide, Ecosystems Impacts	2015.	Gulf of Mexico, Southeast	Link
Ahearn, A. 2015. Facing Rising Waters, A Native Tribe Takes Its Plea to Paris in Climate Talks. NPR. [audio]. Categories: Sea Level Rise, Relocation, Glacial Melting	2015.	Northwest, Washington	Link
New York Times. 2015. The Road to a Paris Climate Deal: What Climate Change Looks Like. Categories: Sea Level Rise, Water Quality, Snow Melt, Coral Bleaching, Bark Beetles, Ocean Acidification	2015.	National, International	Link
Improving collaboration between Native Americans and climate scientists. 2015. MSU Today. Categories: Climate Science, Research Ethics, Native Climate Science	2015	Great Lakes, East	Link
Northwest Climate Science Center. 2015. Annual Report. Categories: Annual Report, Conservation, Science	2015	Northwest	Link
Maldonado, JK, TMB Bennett, K Chief, P Cochran, K Cozzetto, B Gough, MH Redsteer, N Maynard, K Lynn, G Voggesser. 2015. Engagement With Indigenous Peoples and Honoring Traditional Knowledge Systems. Climatic Change. Categories: sustained assessment, TK, tribe, indigenous	2015	Global	Link
Whyte, Kyle. 2015. What Do Indigenous Knowledges Do for Indigenous Peoples? SSRN. Categories: Traditional Knowledges (TKs), Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Governance, Science, Climate Impacts	2015	National	Link
Government Accountability Office. 2015. A National System Could Help Federal, State, Local, and Private Sector Decision Makers Use Climate Information. Categories: Climate Data, Review	2015	National	Link
Marino, Elizabeth. 2015. Fierce Climate, Sacred Ground: An Ethnography of Climate Change. University of Alaska Press. Categories: vulnerability, Adaptation, Relocation, tribe, indigenous	2015	Alaska, Arctic	Link
Vinyeta K, Whyte KP, Lynn K. 2015. Climate change through an intersectional lens: gendered vulnerability and resilience in indigenous communities in the United States. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-923. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. Categories: Indigenous peoples, climate change vulnerability, resilience, gender, identity	2015	National	Link
Vickery, Jamie and Lori Hunter. 2015. Native Americans: Where in Environmental Justice Research? Society and Natural Resources Journal. Categories: Climate justice, American Indians, tribe, indigenous	2015	Global	Link
Armitage, P and Kilburn, S. 2015. Conduct of Traditional Knowledge Research—A Reference Guide. Whitehorse [YT]: Wildlife Management Advisory Council (North Slope). Categories: Traditional Knowledge, Research, traditional knowledge research, indigenous people, tribe, best practices	2015	Canada	Link
Whyte, Kyle. 2015. The Ethics of Traditional Knowledge Exchange in Climate Change Initiatives. Earthzine. Categories: Ethics, Traditional Knowledges (TKs), Climate Initiatives	2015	National, International	Link
Brewer, Joseph and Kronk Warner, Elizabeth Ann, Guarding Against Exploitation: Protecting Indigenous Knowledge in the Age of Climate Change (February 20, 2015). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2567995 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2567995 Categories: Traditional Knowledge, indigenous knowledge, Climate change, intellectual property, tribes, Native Americans, American Indians, indigenous people, Indians	2015	United States	Link
Bronen, R. (2014b). Choice and necessity: relocations in the Arctic and South Pacific. Forced Migration Review: 45. Categories: Relocations, indigenous people, tribe, Arctic, South Pacific, Relocation, Adaptation	2015	Arctic, South Pacific	Link
Bronen, R. Huffington. 2015. The Arctic Is Speaking Truths About Climate Change. Is Anyone Listening? Categories: Climate-induced displacement, Arctic, tribe, indigenous	2015	Alaska, Arctic	Link
Sampson, Donald. Columbia River Basin Tribes Climate Change Capacity Assessment. Portland State University. 2015. Categories: climate change, climate science, adaptation, vulnerability assessment, planning, mitigation, development, policy	2015	Oregon, Washington state	Link
A. Bakun, B.A. Black, S.J. Bograd, M. García-Reyes, A.J. Miller, R.R. Rykaczewski, W.J. Sydeman. 2015. Anticipated Effects of Climate Change on Coastal Upwelling Ecosystems. Current Climate Change Reports. 1: 85-93. Categories: Upwelling, Climate Impacts, Coastal Upwelling	2015	Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean	Link
Gruenig B, Lynn K, Voggesser G, Whyte P. 2015. Tribal climate change principles: responding to federal policies and actions to address climate change. Categories: Climate change, indigenous, policy, tribe	2015	United States	Link
Burger, J., Gochfeld, M., Niles, L. et al. Environ Monit Assess (2015) 187: 102. doi:10.1007/s10661-014-4233-4 Categories: cultural health, traditional foods, revitalization, climate change, population, fisheries, marine health, economy, sociocultural impacts, human health, aviary health	2015	National	Link
W. Matt Jolly, Mark A. Cochrane, Patrick H. Freeborn, Zachary A. Holden, Timothy J. Brown, Grant J. Williamson & David M. J. S. Bowman. 2015. Climate-induced variations in global wildfire danger from 1979 to 2013. Nature Communications (6). Categories: Wildfire, Climate Impacts, Wildfire Variability	2015	National, International	Link
Himes-Cornell, A., & Kasperski, S. (2015). Assessing climate change vulnerability in Alaska's fishing communities. Fisheries Research, 162, 1-11. Categories: Traditional foods, Climate change, Fishing, Alaska, tribe, indigenous	2015	Alaska, Arctic	Link
Houck, Oliver A. 2015 The Reckoning: Oil and Gas Development in the Louisiana Coastal Zone. Tulane Environmental Law Journal 28(2):185-296. Categories: Old and Gas Industry, Development, Coastal Louisiana	2015	Southeast	Link
Thiele, R. 2015. Gun Lake Tribe Produces Documentary on Disappearing Wild Rice. NPR. [audio]. Categories: Wild Rice, Species Range Shifts, Documentary, Native Media	2015	East Coast, Midwest, Great Lakes	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.