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
Mohney, G. 2017. How climate change and air pollution can affect your health. Categories: climate change, air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, human health, disease, death	2017	National, United States	Link
Finn, Symma, et al. “The Value of Traditional Ecological Knowledge for the Environmental Health Sciences and Biomedical Research.” Environmental Health Perspectives, vol. 125, no. 8, Aug. 2017, doi:10.1289/ehp858. Categories: TEK, preservation, oral tradition, culture, tradition, language	2017		Link
Grey, Eva. 2017. Arctic indigenous leaders speak up about the dangers of increased shipping. Ship-Technology. Categories: climate change, oceans, marine health, shipping, freight, oil freight, oil spills, pollution, fisheries, ecosystem, sustainability, conservation, preservation	2017	Alaska, Russia, Canada	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
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. Protecting the Health and Well-Being of Communities in a Changing Climate: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/24797. Categories: health and medicine, public health, prevention, environment, environment health and safety, climate change	2017		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
Muhlfeld CC, Kovach RP, Al-Chokhachy R, et al. In press. Legacy introductions and climatic variation explain spatiotemporal patterns of invasive hybridization in a native trout. Global Change Biology 00:1–11. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13681 Categories: climate change, mitigation, adaptation, fisheries, salmon, salmonid, restoration, habitat, hybrid, threatened	2017	Western U.S.	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
n.a. 2017. Standing Rock's fight against Dakota pipeline not over as tribe plans for fossil-free future. Green Left Weekly. Categories: Standing rock, pipeline, legislation, lawsuit, climate change, policy, planning, fossil fuels, pollution	2017	North Dakota	Link
Duyck, S. 2017. US joins UN resolution to protect human rights from climate change. Climate Home. Categories: UN, climate change, adaptation, mitigation, children, youth, social justice, future, Trump administration	2017	National	Link
Leigh Brown, Patricia. 2017. Traditions Revived at a Tribal Culture Camp. The New York Times Categories: PNW, culture	2017	Pacific Northwest, California	Link
Charnley, S., Kelly, E.C. and Wendel, K.L., 2017. All Lands Approaches to Fire Management in the Pacific West: A Typology. Journal of Forestry, 115(1), pp.16-25. DOI 10.5849/jof.15-092 Categories: climate change, mitigation, adaptation, resource management, fire, suppression, fuels, reduction, risk	2017	Western United States	Link
LaPier, Rosalyn R. 2017. Climate change could disrupt tribes’ religious practices. High Country News. Categories: climate change, tribes, religion, spirituality, self-determination, cultural expression, freedom, accessibility,	2017	National, United States	Link
Dalton, M.M, K.D. Dello, L. Hawkins, P.W. Mote, and D.E. Rupp (2017) The Third Oregon Climate Assessment Report, Oregon Climate Change Research Institute, College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR. Categories: climate change, mitigation, adaptation, weather, patterns, energy, footprint, planning, policy	2017	Oregon, Pacific Northwest	Link
Pringle, Heather. 2017. In the Land of Lost Gardens. Hakai Magazine. Categories: ethnobotany, TEK, traditional knowledge, plants, first foods, traditional foods,	2017	British Colombia, Canada, Pacific Northwest	Link
Harrington, Samantha. 2017. A Native American tribe is helping a forest adapt to climate change. Yale Climate Connections Categories: adaptation, forests, climate change	2017	Wisconsin, Upper Midwest	Link
Reilly, M.J., Dunn, C.J., Meigs, G.W., Spies, T.A., Kennedy, R.E., Bailey, J.D. and Briggs, K., 2017. Contemporary patterns of fire extent and severity in forests of the Pacific Northwest, USA (1985–2010). Ecosphere, 8(3):e01695. DOI 10.1002/ecs2.1695 Categories: wildfire, fire, fuels, management, climate change, adaption, reduction, mitigation, planning policy, prevention	2017	Western United States.	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.