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
McKenna, Phil. 2017. Alaska's Grizzly Bears Drop Salmon for Berries as Climate Changes. Categories: climate change, alaska, Kodiak, grizzly bear, brown bear, salmon, seasonal diet, elderberries, berries, ecology	2017	Alaska, Pacific Northwest Coast, North Pacific, Northwest	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
Lee, J. 2017. There Are Climate Change Refugees in the U.S. Right Now. Categories: climate change, refugee, relocation, natural disaster, hazard, victims, human health, community justice, social justice	2017	Untied States	Link
Alexandra Paige Fischer & Tim G. Frazier (2018) Social Vulnerability to Climate Change in Temperate Forest Areas: New Measures of Exposure, Sensitivity, and Adaptive Capacity, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 108:3, 658-678, DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2017.1387046 Categories: climate change impacts, forest and plant health, community health, social vulnerability, adaptation, climate modeling	2017	Pacific Northwest	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
Mjoseth, J. 2017. The Importance of Research Ethics to Native Communities. HHS. Categories: TEK, intellectual property, protection, preservation, conservation, legislation, research, ethics	2017	National	Link
Marsh, Rene. 2017. Trump administration dismisses climate change advisory panel. Categories: climate change, Trump administration, white house, advisory panel, climate science, politics, legislation	2017	National, United States	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
Dockter, A. 2017. Native Nations Address Climate Change Challenges with Tools of Collaboration. Categories: climate change, natural disaster, hazard, human health, community, social justice, conservation, management, policy, adaptation, mitigation	2017	National, United States	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
Visser, Nick. 2017. Interior Department Scrubs Climate Change From Agency Website. Again. Categories: climate change, Trump administration, white house, anti-science, climate change denial,	2017	National	Link
AMS. 2017. State of the Climate in 2016. Categories: climate change, meteorology, carbon emissions, expectations, observations	2017	International, Global	Link
Mundahl, E. 2017. Tribes’ Statement on Paris Agreement Shows Limits of Tribal Authority. Categories: climate change, paris climate agreement, Trump Administration, sovereignty, self-determination, self-governance, limited authority, social justice, environmental justice	2017	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
McNeeley, S.M., 2017. Sustainable Climate Change Adaptation in Indian Country. Weather, Climate, and Society, 9(3), pp.393-404. Categories: climate change, conservation, management, legislation, societal impacts, policy, natural resources, cultural resources	2017	National	Link
Fatorić, S. and Seekamp, E., 2017. Evaluating a decision analytic approach to climate change adaptation of cultural resources along the Atlantic Coast of the United States. Land Use Policy, 68, pp.254-263.	2017	Northeast, Atlantic Coast	Link
Champagne, Duane. 2017. Trump’s Policies Threaten Tribal Sovereignty. IndianCountry Today. Categories: Trump Administration, BIA, federal assistance, grants, financial assistance	2017		Link
Hsiang, S., Kopp, R., Jina, A., Rising, J., Delgado, M., Mohan, S., Rasmussen, D.J., Muir-Wood, R., Wilson, P., Oppenheimer, M. and Larsen, K., 2017. Estimating economic damage from climate change in the United States. Science, 356(6345), pp.1362-1369. Categories: climate change, weather patterns, precipitation, short-term, climate science, projections,	2017	United States	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
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
Levy, Amir. 2017. Facing climate change on the Louisiana bayous – in pictures. The Guardian. Categories: climate change, seal level, relocation, adaptation, treaty land, reservation	2017	Louisiana	Link
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
Tengö, M., R. Hill, P. Malmer, C. M. Raymond, M. Spierenburg, F. Danielsen, T. Elmqvist, C. Folke. 2017. Weaving knowledge systems in IPBES, CBD and beyond—lessons learned for sustainability. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 26–27:17–25 Categories: climate change, TEK, traditional knowledge, knowledge transmission, management, planning, policy	2017	International	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
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
Gregg, R.M. 2017. Incorporating climate change in marine use plans for British Columbia’s First Nations. Summary of a project of the Marine Plan Partnership for the North Pacific Coast. Categories: climate change, planning, policy, adaptation, mitigation, climate science	2017	Alaska, Pacific Northwest, Canada, British Columbia	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

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.