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	Geography	Website
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
Living on Earth. 2017. Land on Fire. Categories: cliamte change, wildfire, forest fire, management, risk, hazard, human health, safety, disaster prevention, disaster relief, planning, policy	2017	National, United States	Link
LaDuke, Winona. 2016. The Rights of Nature (video). University of Oregon: EMU Ballroom. Categories: climate achange, fossil fuel, capitalism, pieline, protest, resistance, sovereignty, self-determination, treaty rights	2016	National	Link
Terri Hansen. 2016. 'Extreme Heat Week' Combats Climate Change With Resilience Strategies for Tribes. Indian Country Today Media Network. Categories: Climate Adaptation, Climate Impacts, Indigenous Peoples, Drought	2016	National	Link
Michael A. Crimmins, Daniel B. Ferguson, Jeremy L. Weiss, Holly Faulstich. n.d. Hopi Climate Report – An Overview to Support Drought Monitoring & Management. Categories: Climate Adaptation, Drought Monitoring, Assessment	2016	Southwest	Link
Herman-Mercer, N. M., E. Matkin, M. J. Laituri, R. C. Toohey, M. Massey, K. Elder, P. F. Schuster, and E. A. Mutter. 2016. Changing times, changing stories: generational differences in climate change perspectives from four remote indigenous communities in Subarctic Alaska. Ecology and Society 21(3):28. http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08463-210328 Categories: climate adaptation, human health outcomes, youth, contemporary, climate perspectives	2016	Arctic, Subarctic	Link
ITEP. 2012. Climate Change and Invasive Species: What it means to tribes and how we can adapt. Categories: Climate adaptation, invasive species, climate mitigation, prevention,	2012	United States	Link
Hewes, Will and Fahlund, Andrew. Weathering Change: Policy Reforms That Save Money and Make Communities Safer. American Rivers. Categories: Climate Adaptation, Planning, Policy Reform		National	Link
Carolyn van Houten. The First Official Climate Refugees in the U.S. Race Against Time. 2016. National Geographic Online. Categories: Climate Adaptation, Relocation, Climate Refugee, Isle de Jean Charles, Isle de Jean Charles band of the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Tribe	2016	Southeast, Gulf of Mexico	Link
Gregg RM, Reynier W, Gaines LJ, BehanJ (editors). 2018. Available Science Assessment Process (ASAP): Sea Level Rise in the Pacific Northwest and Northern California. Report to the Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center. EcoAdapt (Bainbridge Island, WA) and the Institute for Natural Resources (Corvallis, OR). Categories: climate adaptation, sea level rise, management, coastal planning	2018	Pacific Northwest, Northern California	Link
ITEP. 2014. Climate Change and Water Resources: What it means to tribes and how we can adapt. Categories: climate adaptation. climate mitigation, water health, infrastructure, sea level, acidification, drought, flood, water access, fact sheet	2014	United States	Link
Terence, Malcolm. Karuk Tribe Holds Its Own Climate Study Session. Two Rivers Tribune. 2016. Categories: climate assessment, climate science, indigenous knowledge, tribal lands, local government, orleans, Federal agency,	2016	California, Orleans, Pacific Northwest	Link
Fleishman, E., editor. 2023. Sixth Oregon Climate Assessment. Oregon Climate Change Research Institute, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon. https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/occri/oregon-climate-assessments Categories: climate assessment, research, Tribal climate resilience	2023	Oregon	Link
Halofsky, J.E., Peterson, D.L. and Prendeville, H.R., 2017. Assessing vulnerabilities and adapting to climate change in northwestern US forests. Climatic Change, pp.1-14. Categories: climate chagne, adaptation, inter agency collaboration, partnerships, multiple jurisdiction, transboundary, management,	2017	Pacific Northwest, Washington state	Link
Overland, J. E., J. A. Francis, E. Hanna, and M. Wang, 2012: The recent shift in early summer Arctic atmospheric circulation. Geophysical Research Letters, 39, L19804, doi:10.1029/2012gl053268. URL ↩ Categories: Climate change	2012	Global	Link
Merideth, R., D. Liverman, R. Bales, and M. Patterson, 1998: Climate variability and change in the southwest: Impacts, information needs, and issues for policymaking. Final report. Southwest Regional Climate Change Symposium and Workshop,. URL ↩ Categories: Climate change	1998	Southwest
Lennert, Mitdlarak. 2014. Greenland’s legal framework for non-renewable resource exploitation: The challenges of creating transparent public consultation processes. In Joan Nymand Larsen and Gail Fondahl, eds. Arctic Human Development Report. Regional Processes and Global Linkages. Copenhagen: Nordic Council of Ministers, pp. 276–280. Categories: Climate Change Adaptation, indigenous knowledge, tribe, indigenous	2014	Arctic	Link
Categories: climate change adaptation, mitigation, resilience, sustainability, community	2019	Inuvialuit Settlement Region	Link
Fisher M. 2014. Native American Tribe Prepares for Climate Change with the Help of a Soil Scientist. Soil Horizons. Categories: Climate Change Adaptation, resource management, tribe, indigenous	2014	Southwest	Link
Rising Voices. 2014a Adaptation to Climate Change and Variability: Bringing Together Science and Indigenous Ways of Knowing to Create Positive Solutions. Workshop Report. National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, June 30-July 2. Categories: Climate Change Adaptation, traditional knowledges, declining sea ice, Health, hazards, Relocation, tribe, indigenous	2014	United States	Link
Rising Voices. 2014b Adaptation to Climate Change and Variability: Bringing Together Science and Indigenous Ways of Knowing to Create Positive Solutions – Water Quality and Quantity Group Report. National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, June 30-July 2. Categories: Climate Change Adaptation, variability, water rights, tribe, indigenous	2014	United States	Link
Daigle, J. J., and D. Putnam, 2009: The meaning of a changed environment: Initial assessment of climate change impacts in Maine – indigenous peoples. Maine’s Climate Future: An Initial Assessment, G.L. Jacobson, I.J. Fernandez, P.A. Mayewski, and C.V. Schmitt, Eds., University of Maine, 37-40. URL ↩ Categories: climate change assessment, Climate Change Impacts, Maine, tribe, indigenous	2009	Northeast
Huntington, H. P., E. Goodstein, and E. Euskirchen, 2012: Towards a tipping point in responding to change: Rising costs, fewer options for arctic and global societies. AMBIO, 41, 66-74, doi:10.1007/s13280-011-0226-5.↩ Categories: Climate change costs Prevention Response Politics Economics Village relocation Forest fires Sea level rise Arctic, tribe, indigenous	2012	Arctic
Kukarenko, N. 2011. Climate change effects on human health in a gender perspective: some trends in Arctic research. Global Health Action. 4: 7913. Categories: Climate change effects, Human Health, gender, Arctic, tribe, indigenous	2011	Arctic
Stein, Michael Isaac. “How to Save a Town From Rising Waters.” CityLab, The Atlantic Monthly Group, 24 Jan. 2018, www.citylab.com/environment/2018/01/how-to-save-a-town-from-rising-waters/547646/. Categories: climate change effects, relocation, planning	2018	Coastal Louisiana	Link
Trainor, S. F., S. F. Chapin, III, D. A. McGuire, M. Calef, N. Fresco, M. Kwart, P. Duffy, A. Lauren Lovecraft, S. T. Rupp, L. ’O. DeWilde, O. Huntington, and D. C. Natcher, 2009: Vulnerability and adaptation to climate-related fire impacts in rural and urban interior Alaska. Polar Research, 28, 100-118, doi:10.1111/j.1751-8369.2009.00101.x. Categories: Climate change fire impacts, vulnerability, Adaptation, Alaska, tribe, indigenous	2009	Alaska, Arctic
K. McLean, G., 2010: Advance Guard: Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation, Mitigation and Indigenous Peoples - A Compendium of Case Studies. United Nations University - Traditional Knowledge Initiative, 128 pp. URL ↩ Categories: Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation, Mitigation, indigenous, tribe	2010	International	Link
Larsen, J.N., O.A. Anisimov, A. Constable, A.B. Hollowed, N. Maynard, P. Prestrud, T.D. Prowse, and J.M.R. Stone. 2014. Polar Regions. In: Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Part B: Regional Aspects. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Barros, V.R., C.B. Field, D.J. Dokken, M.D. Mastrandrea, K.J. Mach, T.E. Bilir, M. Chatterjee, K.L. Ebi, Y.O. Estrada, R.C. Genova, B. Girma, E.S. Kissel, A.N. Levy, S. MacCracken, P.R. Mastrandrea, and L.L. White (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York, pp. 1567-1612. Categories: Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation, vulnerability	2014	Global	Link
Anisimov, O. A., D. G. Vaughan, T. V. Callaghan, C. Furgal, H. Marchant, T. D. Prowse, H. Vilhjálmsson, and J. E. Walsh, 2007: Polar regions (Arctic and Antarctic). Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, M.L. Parry, O.F. Canziani, J.P. Palutikof, P.J. Van der Linden, and C.E. Hanson, Eds., Cambridge University Press, 653-685. Categories: Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation, vulnerability	2007	International
Babcock, Hope M. “Here Today, Gone Tomorrow--Is Global Climate Change Another White Man ’s Trick to Get Indian Land? The Role of Treaties in Protecting Tribes as They Adapt to Climate Change.” Michigan State Law Review, 2017, pp. 370–423., scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3029&context=facpub. Categories: climate change impacts, cultural resources, sea level rise, erosion, drought, relocation, treaties, sovereignty	2017		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.