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
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
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
Whitehouse. 2016. Federal Drought Plan.

Categories: Drought, Planning, Climate Impacts, management, planning, policy, legislation, contingency, climate change, Obama archive

2016. National 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
Trahant, M. 2017. Saving Budget Fights for Another Day: Congress has a spending plan for this year that includes more money for most Native programs through September.

Categories: Trump Administration, policy, planning, budget, agencies, tribal assistance, short-term

2017 National, United States Link
Guide for Considering Climate Change in Coastal Conservation. NOAA. 2016.

Categories: conservation, climate change, coastal, riparian, wetlands, estuary, marine health, flood, planning, assessment

2017 National, International Link
PBS. 2017. Broken Treaties: The history of the native people of Oregon and how they went from possessing 100 percent of the state's land to nearly none of it.

Categories: treaties, legislation, policy, management, Federal recognition, traditional lands, treaty lands, sovereignty, self determination

2017 Oregon Link
Lawler, J.H.; Bullock, R.C.L. 2017. A Case for Indigenous Community Forestry. Journal of Forestry. 115(2), 117-125.

Categories: case study, community forestry, indigenous forestry, sustainability

2017 National Link
Capriccioso, Rob. 2017. Plea to Trump: Protect White House Council on Native American Affairs. Indian Country Media Network.

Categories: social justice, sovereignty, tribal protection, treaty, trump administration, budget cuts, planning, policy, legislation

2017 National Link
Littel, Jeremy. 2017. Practical Notes on Using Climate Predictions in Alaska. Department of the Interior, USGS, Alaska Climate Science Center, Anchorage, Alaska.

Categories: Southeast Alaska, climate science, climate change, climate modeling, climate projections, global climate projections, downscaling, regional climate projections, precipitation, temperature,

2017 Alaska Link
Wilson, Conrad. 2017. Northwest Tribes Call For End To Moving Fossil Fuels Through Gorge. PBS.

Categories: fossil fuels, oil, pollution, spill, environmental degradation, sacred places, tribes, sovereignty, self determination

2017 Oregon Link
Whyte, K. 2017. Indigenous Climate Change & Climate Justice Teaching Materials & Advanced Bibliography.

Categories: education, outreach, research, accessibility, planning, outreach

2017 International Link
Stephen Pyne. 2017. Recreating forests of the past isn't enough to fix our wildfire problem.

Categories: wildfire, managed fire, prescribed burn, management, prevention, ecosystem, beneficial, fuels, fire science, ecology, resilience

2017 United States, National Link
Flatt, Courtney. 2017. Proposed EPA Cuts Could Pose Big Problems For Tribes. KUOW.

Categories: budget cuts, support, climate change, environmental hazard, trump administration, white house, legislation, planning, policy, grants

2017 National Link
Banerjee, N. 2017. Trial Date Set for Children’s Climate Lawsuit Against U.S. Government

Categories: climate change, legislation, policy, social justice, youth justice, human health, future generations, federal court,

2017 United Stated, National Link
Sparling, E., P. Byer, P. Cobb and H. Auld. (2017). Best Practices for Consideration of the Effects of
Climate Change in Project-Level Environmental Assessments. Ontario Centre for Climate Impacts and
Adaptation Resources (OCCIAR) and Risk Sciences International (RSI).

Categories: climate change, climate change impacts, environmental assessment, planning, adaptation

2017 Link
Whyte, K. 2017. Indigenous Climate Change & Climate Justice Teaching Materials & Advanced Bibliography.

Categories: education, outreach, research, accessibility, planning, outreach

2017 International Link
Lundgren, H., Cook, K. 2017. Telling the “Good Fire” Story: Two Communities’ Prescribed Fire Outreach Efforts.

Categories: wildfire, managed burn, prescribed burn, management, planning, policy, adaptation, mitigation, community resilience, air quality, ecosystem, habitat

2017 Washington state, United States, National Link
Pierre-Louis, K. 2017. If the EPA doesn't believe in science, what is it good for? Popular Science.

Categories: claimtea change, environmental protection, budget cuts, governemntal agency, funding, climate science, trump administration, white house. legislation, planning, policy

2017 National Link
Nicholson, B. 2017. Dakota Access review to re-examine impact on tribe. WKOW.

Categories: DAPL, Dakota Access pipeline, fossil fuels, oil industry, Standing Rock Sioux, environmental justice, social justice, Native rights, treaty rights, community health, human health, self-determination, self-governance, sovereignty

2017 North Dakota, Illinois, United States Link
Champagne, Duane. 2017. Trump’s Policies Threaten Tribal Sovereignty. IndianCountry Today.

Categories: Trump Administration, BIA, federal assistance, grants, financial assistance

2017 Link
Sankey, J. B., Kreitler, J., Hawbaker, T. J., McVay, J. L., Miller, M. E., Mueller, E. R., . . . Sankey, T. T. (2017). Climate, wildfire, and erosion ensemble foretells more sediment in western USA watersheds. Geophysical Research Letters. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/2017GL073979.

Categories: climate change, wildfire, erosion, water quality, water supply, watershed health, sedimentation

2017 United States Link
Reo, N.J., Whyte, K.P., McGregor, D., Smith, M.A. and Jenkins, J.F., 2017. Factors that support Indigenous involvement in multi-actor environmental stewardship. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, p.1177180117701028.

Categories: climate change, TEK, Indigenous science,intergenerational knowledge, self-determination, collaboration, management, technical assistance, self-determination, soverignty

2017 Naitonal Link
Hipp, Janie Simms, and Duren, Colby D. June 2017. Regaining Our Future: An Assessment of Risks and Opportunities for
Native Communities in the 2018 Farm Bill. Prior Lake, Minnesota: Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community

Categories: climate change, agriculture, Farm bill, White house, Trump Administration, federal budgeting, planning, policy, management, legislation, human health, community justice, social justice, environmental racism

2017 Southwest, Midwes, North Dakota, South Dakota, National, United States Link
Harvey, C. 2017. This climate lawsuit could change everything. No wonder the Trump administration doesn’t want it going to trial. The Washington Post.

Categories: trump administration, climate change, lawsuit, OCT, federal government, supreme court, mitigation, emissions, standards, legislation

2017 National Link
Winters, Chris. 2017. After 90 years, salmon are returning to upper Sultan River. HeraldNET.

Categories: climate change, restoration, conservation, management, repopulation, habitat, spawning

2017 Washington, Pacific Northwest Link