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
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
Welch, Craig. 2015. Why Alaska’s Inupiat Are Warming to Offshore Oil Drilling. The National Geographic http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/05/150522-Inupiat-Shell-offshore-oil-Arctic-Alaska-ocean-whale-sea/ (accessed June 24, 2015) Categories: Offshore oil drilling, Inupiat, tribe, indigenous	2015	Alaska, Arctic	Link
National Tribal Air Association. [N.d.]. Analysis of the EPA's Final Clean Power Plan, NTAA Comments and Final Rule Outcomes. Categories: Air Quality, EPA, Clean Power, Fracking, Nuclear Energy, Solar Energy, Biomass,	2015	National	Link
Rebecca A. Mabardy, George G. Waldbusser, Flaxen Conway and Christine S. Olsen. 2015. Perception and Response of the U.S. West Coast Shellfish Industry to Ocean Acidification: The Voice of the Canaries in the Coal Mine. Journal of Shellfish Research 34(2):565-572. Categories: Ocean Acidification, Shellfish, Commercial Fishing	2015	Pacific Ocean, Pacific Northwest	Link
Wilson, N. J., Walter, M. T., & Waterhouse, J. (2015). Indigenous Knowledge of Hydrologic Change in the Yukon River Basin: A Case Study of Ruby, Alaska. ARCTIC, 68(1), 93-106. Categories: Climate change, Indigenous knowledge of water, socio-hydrology, river dynamics, Water Resources, tribe, indigenous	2015	Alaska	Link
Fisichelli, N., Schuurman, G., Hoffman, C. 2015. Is ‘Resilience’ Maladaptive? Towards an Accurate Lexicon for Climate Change Adaptation. Environmental Management:1-6. Categories: Adaptation, Madaptation, Resilience	2015	National, International	Link
Vinyeta, Kirsten and Kathy Lynn. 2015. Strengthening the Federal-Tribal Relationship: A Report on Monitoring Consultation under the Northwest Forest Plan. Report Submitted as part of Northwest Forest Plan 20 Year Reports. FS/R6/PNW/2015/0005. Categories: Policy, Northwest Forest Plan, Consultation, Co-Management, Natural Resource Management, Forestry	2015	Northwest	Link
Inuit Circumpolar Council-Alaska (ICC-AK). 2015. Alaskan Inuit Food Security Conceptual Framework: How to Assess the Arctic from an Inuit Perspective -- Summary and Recommendations Report. Report created as part of 2015 Alaskan Inuit Food Security Conceptual Framework Technical Report. Categories: Food Security, Climate Impacts, Planning, Indigenous Knowledge, Traditional Knowledges	2015	International, Alaska, Polar	Link
Inuit Circumpolar Council-Alaska (ICC-AK). 2015. Alaskan Inuit Food Security Conceptual Framework: How to Assess the Arctic from an Inuit Perspective. Technical Report. Categories: Food Security, Climate Impacts, Planning, Indigenous Knowledge, Traditional Knowledges	2015	International, Alaska, Polar	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
D. Patrick Kilduff, Emanuele Di Lorenzo, Louis W. Botsford, and Steven L. H. Teo, Changing central Pacific El Niños reduce stability of North American salmon survival rates, PNAS 2015 112 (35) 10962-10966; published ahead of print August 3, 2015, doi:10.1073/pnas.1503190112 Categories: climate change, climate adaptation, salmon, Coho, Chinook, population, restoration	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
Categories: Public Health, adaptation, preparedness, air quality, climate change, extreme events	2015	National	Link
Tribal Energy System Vulnerabilities to Climate Change and Extreme Weather. DOE. 2015. Categories: energy, socioeconomic, climate change, accessibility, energy planning	2015	National	Link
Rising Voices: Collaborative Science for Climate Solutions. 2015. Recommendations to the UNFCCC 21st Conference of Parties. Categories: Policy, Adaptation, Climate Impacts, Indigenous Peoples	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
Tulalip, Swinomish Preserve Forest and Salmon Habitat With Two Significant Initiatives. Indian Country Toady. 2015. Categories: Conservation, coastal habitat, wetlands, habitat restoration, climate adaptation	2015	Northwest, Pacific Northwest, Puget Sound, Washington, West coasr	Link
LCC Network Conservation Science Plan - Version 1.0. 2015. Categories: Conservation, Landscape Management, Climate Adaptation, Science	2015	National	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
Riley, Angela and Carpenter, Kristen A., Owning Red: A Theory of Indian (Cultural) Appropriation (September 3, 2015). Texas Law Review, Vol. 94, p. 859, 2016. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2655694 Categories: Intellectual property, dispossession, cultural appropriation, intangible property, freedom of speech, cultural property claims, extralegal, sacred sites, property law, legal	2015	National, United States	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
Strauss, B. H., Kulp, S. and Levermann, A. 2015. Mapping Choices: Carbon, Climate, and Rising Seas, Our Global Legacy. Climate Central Research Report. pp. 1-38. Categories: Sea level rise, populations at risk	2015	International, Global	Link
Mauger, G.S., J.H. Casola, H.A. Morgan, R.L. Strauch, B. Jones, B. Curry, T.M. Busch lSaksen, L. Whitely Binder, M.B. Krosby, and A.K. Snover. 2015. State of Knowledge. Climate Change in Puget Sound. Report repared for the Puget Sound Partnership and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Climate Impacts Group. University of Washington, Seattle. Doi: 10.7915/CIG93777D Categories: Assessment, Synthesis, Summary, Climate Data, Puget Sound	2015	Pacific Northwest, Washington, Puget Sound	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
Maldonado, J., Bennett, T.M.B., Chief, K., Cochran, P., Cozzetto, K., Gough, B., Hiza Redsteer, M., Lynn, K. and Maynard, N., 2015, Engagement With Indigenous Peoples and Honoring Traditional Knowledge Systems; Journal of Climatic Change. Categories: National Climate Assessment, tribes, climate change	2015	National	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
Saperstein, A. 2015. Climate Change, Migration, and the Puget Sound Region: What We Know and How We Could Learn More. Report prepared for the University of Washington Climate Impacts Group. The Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Washington, Seattle. Categories: Human Migration, Climate Impacts, Research	2015	Pacific Northwest, Washington, Puget Sound	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
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
Sydeman, W.J., E. Poloczanska, T.E. Reed, and S.A. Thompson. 2015. Climate change and marine vertebrates. Science 13 (350, no. 6262): 772-777, doi: 10.1126/science.aac9874 Categories: Marine Ecosystems Impacts, Marine Vertebrates, Population Dynamics, Climate Impacts	2015	Pacific Northwest, Coastal	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.