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
Melillo, Jerry M., T. C. Richmond, and Gary W. Yohe. "Climate change impacts in the United States: the third national climate assessment." US Global change research program 841 (2014). Categories: Climate change, Adaptation, risk, vulnerability, assessment, tribe, indigenous	2014	United States	Link
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of North Carolina. 2014. The United Nations Human Rights Treaty System: U.S. OBLIGATIONS UNDER HUMAN RIGHTS TREATIES: ICCPR 2014 & UPR 2011. Categories: Human Rights, United States Government, International Law	2014	International, National	Link
Brubaker, Mike; Flensburg, Sue; Skarada, Jennifer. 2014. Climate Change and Health Effects in Bristol Bay Region of Alaska. [powerpoint]. Alaska Strategies for Community Health. Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium: Center for Climate and Health, Anchorage. Categories: Climate change, Indigenous health, Bristol Bay, Alaska, Arctic, tribe, indigenous	2014	Alaska, Arctic	Link
Melillo, Jerry M., Terese (T.C.) Richmond, and Gary W. Yohe, eds. 2014 Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment. Washington, DC: U.S. Global Change Research Program. Categories: Changing Climate, Water Resources, Energy, Transportation, Agriculture, Forests, Ecosystems and Biodiversity, Human Health, Energy, Water, and Land Use, Urban Systems and Infrastructure, indigenous peoples, land use, Rural Communities, Biogeochemical Cycles, Northeast Southeast and Caribbean, Midwest, Great Plains, Southwest, Northwest, Alaska, Hawai‘i and U.S. Affiliated Pacific Islands, Oceans and Marine Resources, Coastal Zones, tribe, indigenous	2014	United States	Link
Bennett, N. J., Kadfak, A. & Dearden, P. (2014). The Future We Want: Taking Action in Ban Talae Nok for the Community, the Environment and Climate Change. Victoria, BC: Marine Protected Areas Research Group, University of Victoria. 22 p. Categories: Climate change, indigenous peoples, Ban Talae Nok, tribe, indigenous	2014	Global	Link
Norgaard, K. 2014. Karuk Traditional Ecological Knowledge and the Need for Knowledge Sovereignty: Social Cultural and economic Impacts of Denied Access to Traditional Management. Prepared for Karuk Tribe Department of Natural Resources. Categories: Traditional Knowledges (TKs), Climate Impacts, Knowledge Sovereignty, Self-Determination, Self-Governance, Climate Impacts, Natural Resource Management, Collaboration, Co-Management, Prescribed Burns	2014	Pacific Northwest, California, Northwest
Mimura, N., R.S. Pulwarty, D.M. Duc, I. Elshinnawy, M.H. Redsteer, H.Q. Huang, J.N. Nkem, and R.A. Sanchez and Rodriguez, 2014: Adaptation planning and implementation. In: Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Part A: Global and Sectoral Aspects. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Field, C.B., V.R. Barros, D.J. Dokken, K.J. Mach, M.D. Mastrandrea, 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, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, pp. 869-898. Categories: Climate change, Adaptation planning and implementation	2014	International	Link
Bennett, T. M. B., N. G. Maynard, P. Cochran, R. Gough, K. Lynn, J. Maldonado, G. Voggesser, S. Wotkyns, and K. Cozzetto, 2014: Ch. 12: Indigenous Peoples, Lands, and Resources. Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment, J. M. Melillo, Terese (T.C.) Richmond, and G. W. Yohe, Eds., U.S. Global Change Research Program, 297- 317. doi:10.7930/J09G5JR1. Categories: Climate change, indigenous, Adaptation, tribe, forests resources, Fires, and traditional Food, Water Resources, sea ice, Permafrost Thaw, Relocation	2014	United States	Link
Norgaard, K. 2014.Retaining Knowledge Sovereignty: Expanding the Application of Tribal Traditional Knowledge on Forest Lands in the Face of Climate Change. Prepared for the Karuk Tribe Department of Natural Resources. Categories: Traditional Knowledges (TKs), Knowledge Sovereignty, Natural Resource Management, Climate Impacts	2014	Northwest, California
Montag, J.M. K.Swan, K. Jenni. T. Nieman, J. Hatten, M.Mesa, D. Graves, F. Voss, M. Mastin, J. Hardiman, A. Maule. (2014) "Climate change and Yakama Nation tribal-well being" Climatic Change. Categories: Water, well-being, community health framework, tribe, indigenous, Yakama Nation	2014	Northwest	Link
Bronen, R. 2014. Community Relocations: The Arctic and South Pacific in Martin, S., Weerasinghe, S. and Taylor, A (editors) Humanitarian Crises and Migration Routledge: New York Categories: Climate-induced displacement, Migration and Diaspora, tribe, indigenous	2014	Global	Link
Nania J. and K. Cozzetto et al. 2014. Considerations for climate change and variability adaptation on the Navajo Nation. Categories: Adaptation, Drought, adaptive capacity, Risk Assessment, variability, tribe, indigenous	2014	Navajo Nation, Southwest	Link
Carter, Lynne M., James W. Jones, Leonard Berry, Virginia Burkett, James F. Murley, JayanthaCarter, Lynne M., James W. Jones, Leonard Berry, Virginia Burkett, James F. Murley, Jayantha Obeysekera, Paul J. Schramm, and David Wear 2014 Ch. 17: Southeast and the Caribbean. In Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment. Jerry M. Melillo, Terese Richmond, and Gary W. Yohe, eds. Pp. 396-417. Washington, DC: U.S. Global Change Research Program. Categories: Climate change, Southeast, Caribbean, Sea Level Rise, Increasing Temperatures, Water Resources	2014	Southeast	Link
Orlove, Ben, Lazrus, heather, Hovelsrud, Grete K., and Alessandra Giannini. 2014. Recognitions and Responsibilities. On the origins and consequences of the uneven attention to climate change around the world. Current Anthropology 55(3):249–261. Categories: Climate change, anthropology, global warming	2014	Global	Link
Chapin, Stuart, F. , III, Trainor, Sarah F., Cochran, Patricia, Huntington, Henry P., Markon, Carl, McCammon, Molly, McGuire, David A., and Mark Serreze. 2014. Chapter 22: Alaska. Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment, J. M. Melillo, Terese (T.C.) Richmond, and G. W. Yohe, Eds., U.S. Global Change Research Program, 514-536. doi:10.7930/J00Z7150. Categories: Climate change, Alaska, tribe, indigenous, sea ice, glaciers, Thawing Permafrost, Ocean Temperatures and Chemistry, Native Communities	2014	Alaska, Arctic	Link
Reid M. G., Hamilton, C., Reid, S. K., Trousdale, W., Hill, C., Turner, N., Picard, C. R., Lamontagne, C. and Matthews, H. D. (2014) Indigenous climate change adaptation planning using a value-focused approach: A case study with the Gitga’at Nation. Journal of Ethnobiology, 34, 401–424. Categories: coastal adaptation, adaptation planning, resource dependent communities, values-based planning, ndigenous peoples, tribe, indigenous	2014	coastal tribes	Link
Chief K. Daigle, J. Lynn K. Whyte, K. (2014) "Indigenous Experiences in the US Climate Change and Environmental Stewardship in the Anthropocene" Categories: Adaptation, Forests, Culture, Traditional Knowledge, tribe, indigenous	2014	United States
Reo, N. J., & Parker, A. K. (2014). Re-thinking colonialism to prepare for the impacts of rapid environmental change. In Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples in the United States (pp. 163-174). Climatic Change. Springer International Publishing. Categories: environmental change, colonialism, Adaptation, tribe, indigenous	2014	United States	Link
Climate and Traditional Knowledges Workgroup (CTKW) (2014) Guidelines for considering traditional knowledges in climate change initiatives, Brochure. https://climatetkw.wordpress.com Categories: Traditional Knowledge, Adaptation, resilience	2014	Global	Link
United States, Congress, National Agricultural Statistics Service. “2012 Census of Agriculture; American Indian Reservations.” 2012 Census of Agriculture; American Indian Reservations, vol. 2, ser. 5, USDA, 2014. 5. Categories: agriculture, reservations, farming, ranching, data, research	2014	Reservations	Link
Rising Voices. 2014. Adaptation to Climate Change and Variability: Bringing Together Science and Indigenous Ways of Knowing to Create Positive Solutions. Workshop report. June 30-July 2, 2014. Boulder, CO, National Center for Atmospheric Research. Categories: Adaptation, impacts (health, livelihoods, declining sea ice), Relocation, tribe, indigenous	2014		Link
Being Prepared for Climate Change: A Workbook for Developing Risk-Based Adaptation Plans. EPA. 2014. Categories: climate change, mitigation, adaptation, climate planning, climate science, water, EPA	2014	National	Link
Danielsen, F., Topp-Jørgensen, E., Levermann, N., Løvstrøm, P., Schiøtz, M., Enghoff, M., and Jakobsen, P. 2014. Counting what counts: Using local knowledge to improve Arctic resource management. Polar Geography 37(1):69 – 91. Categories: Climate change, Adaptation, local knowledge, Arctic, resource management, tribe, indigenous	2014	Arctic	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
Donatuto, J., E.E. Grossman, J. Konovsky, S. Grossman and L.W. Campbell. 2014. Indigenous community health and climate change: Integrating biophysical and social science indicators. Coastal Management Journal, 42(4): 355-373. Categories: Climate change, community health, Impact Assessment, indigenous, sea-level rise, shellfish, shoreline armoring, tribe	2014	Northwest, Canada	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
Alaska Department of Fish and Game, 2014.Yakutat Comprehensive Salmon Plan: Phase II. Developed by Yakutat Regional Planning Team. Categories: Southeast Alaska, Yakutat, NCSA, Native Allotment Act, Native Townsite Act, "local utilization” (79), subsistence, customary, traditional, fisheries, salmon, adaptation plans, vulnerability assessment	2014	Alaska	Link
EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) 2014 EPA to Assist Seminole Tribe of Florida Bolster Climate Resilience and Readiness. November 19. http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/C2F26C95B9833DE085257D950079C3A2 Categories: EPA, climate resilience, Seminole tribe, water utilities	2014	Southeast	Link
Smith, L. M., Wade, C. M., Case, J. L., Harwell, L. C., Straub, K. R., & Summers, J. K. (2014). Evaluating the Transferability of a US Human Well-Being Index (HWBI) Framework to Native American Populations. Social Indicators Research, 1-26. Categories: wellbeing, index, tribe, indigenous	2014	United States
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

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.