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
Oyate Omniciye: Oglala Lakota Plan. 2012. Available at: http://www.oglalalakotaplan.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Oyate-Omniciye-Final-.pdf Categories: Adaptation Plan, Oglala Lakota Plan, Climate change, tribe, indigenous	2012	Southwest	Link
Blackburn, Marion. 2012. Return to the Trail of Tears. Archaeology 65(2):53-64. Categories: Historical Displacement, tribe, indigenous	2012	United States
Parrotta, John A.; Agnoletti, Mauro. 2012. Traditional forest-related knowledge and climate change. pp. 491-533 (Chapter 13) in: Parrotta, John A. and Trosper, Ronald L., editors. Traditional Forest-Related Knowledge: Sustaining Communities, Ecosystems and Biocultural Diversity. World Forest Series vol. 12. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands. Categories: traditional knowledges, Forests, Climate change, tribe, indigenous	2012		Link
Burkett, Virginia, and Margaret Davidson, eds. 2012 Coastal Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability: A Technical Input to the 2012 National Climate Assessment. Cooperative Report to the 2013 National Climate Assessment. Categories: Coastal Impacts, Adaptation, vulnerability	2012	Global	Link
Pautasso M., Döring T.F., Garbelotto M., Pellis l. and Jeger, M.J. (2012) Impacts of Climate Change on Plant Diseases—Opinions and Trends. European Journal of Plant Pathology, p.1-19. DOI 10.1007/s10658-012-9936-1. Categories: Adaptive ecosystem management Biotic interactions Landscape pathology Phytophthora ramorum Plant disease epidemiology Tree fungal pathogens	2012	Northwest	Link
Cameron, E. S. (2012). Securing Indigenous politics: A critique of the vulnerability and adaptation approach to the human dimensions of climate change in the Canadian Arctic. Global Environmental Change, 22(1), 103-114. Categories: Traditional Knowledge, vulnerability, Adaptation, Inuit, indigenous, Climate change, Governmentality, colonialism, Resource extraction, shipping, Mining, Legibility, tribe, indigenous	2012	Arctic
Perdue, Theda. 2012. The Legacy of Indian Removal. The Journal of Southern History 78(1):3-36. Categories: Historical Displacement, tribe, indigenous	2012	Southwest
ITEP. 2012. Climate Change and Drought: What it means to tribes and how we can adapt. Categories: drought, water, irrigation, agriculture, cultural resources, climate adaptation, livestock, crops,	2012	United States	Link
Coastal Louisiana Tribal Communities, 2012: Stories of Change: Coastal Louisiana Tribal Communities’ Experiences of a Transforming Environment (Grand Bayou, Grand Caillou/Dulac, Isle de Jean Charles, Pointe-au-Chien). Workshop Report Input into the National Climate Assessment. URL ↩ Categories: Coastal Louisiana, Climate change, assessment, Adaptation, tribe, indigenous	2012	Southeast
Raftery M. 2012. Wind Storm: Tribes Implore President Obama To Stop Ocotillo Express Wind Project, Save Cultural Resource Sites Available At: http://www.eastcountymagazine.org/wind-storm-tribes-implore-president-obama-stop-ocotillo-express-wind-project-save-cultural-resource Categories: Renewable energy, tribe, indigenous	2012		Link
Draut, A.E., Redsteer, M. Hiza and Amoroso, L., 2012, Recent seasonal variations in arid landscape cover and aeolian sand mobility, Navajo Nation, southwestern U.S.; Climates, Landscapes, and Civilizations Geophysical Union Monograph Series 198, p 51-60. Categories: Drought, Aird Landscapes, Navajo Nation, Southwest, tribe, indigenous	2012	Southwest
Riley, R., P. Blanchard, R. Peppler, T. M. Bull Bennett, and D. Wildcat, 2012: Oklahoma Inter-Tribal Meeting on Climate Variability and Change: Meeting Summary Report. 23. URL ↩ Categories: Climate change, American Indians, tribe, indigenous	2012	United States
Farbotko, Carol, and Heather Lazrus 2012 The First Climate Refugees? Contesting Global Narratives of Climate Change in Tuvalu. Global Environmental Change 22:382–390. Categories: Climate-induced displacement, Climate refugees, Migration, Adaptation, Everyday practice, Tuvalu, tribe, indigenous	2012	Global	Link
Royster, J. V. (2012). Climate Change and Tribal Water Rights: Removing Barriers to Adaptation Strategies. Tul. Envtl. LJ, 26, 197. Categories: Climate change, water rights, tribal water rights, reserved water rights, Indian water rights, tribe, indigenous	2012	United States
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
Ferris, E., 2012. Protection and Planned Relocations in the Context of Climate Change. UN High Commission of Refugees, Division of International Protection, Geneva, Switzerland. Categories: Development-induced displacement, Climate change, resettlement, tribe, indigenous	2012	International	Link
Schaefer, K., Lantuit, H., Romanovsky, V., & Schuur, E. (2012). Policy implications of warming permafrost. Categories: Public policy, permafrost	2012	Alaska, Arctic
Fienup-Riordan, Anna, and Alice Rearden. 2012. Ellavut / Our Yup'ik World and Weathe. Continuity and Change on the Bering Sea Coast.Seattle: University of Washington Press. Categories: Traditional Knowledge, cultural transmission, tribe, indigenous	2012	Alaska, Arctic	Link
Sejersen, Frank. 2012. Mobility, climate change, and social dynamics in the Arctic: The creation of new horizons of expectation and the role of community. In Climate Change and Human Mobility: Global Challenges to the Social Sciences. Kirsten Hastrup and Karen Fog Olwig, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 190–213. Categories: Climate change, Migration	2012	Global, Arctic	Link
The Nature Conservancy. 2012. Klawock River, Salmon Passage and Habitat Restoration Project Final Report. Prepared for NOAA Restoration Center. The Working Forest Group. 2013. Consolidated young growth forest land base analysis for all land ownership in Southeast Alaska and recommendations for federal land managers. Prepared at the request of: USDA Forest Service, Alaska Region. Categories: Southeast Alaska, Klawock Community Association, Klawock Heenya Corporation, watershed, hydrology	2012	Alaska	Link
First Stewards, 2012: First Stewards: Coastal Peoples Address Climate Change. Categories: Coastal Tribes, Climate change, tribe, indigenous	2012	Northwest	Link
Shearer, C., 2012: The political ecology of climate adaptation assistance: Alaska Natives, displacement, and relocation. Journal of Political Ecology, 19, 174-183. URL ↩ Categories: Climate change, Alaska Natives, Adaptation, displacement, Relocation, tribe, indigenous	2012	Alaska, Arctic
ITEP. 2012. Climate Change and Wildfire: What it means to tribes and how we can adapt. Categories: wildfire risk, temperature, flood susceptibility, reduction, fire management, mitigation, adaptation, invasive insects	2012	United States	Link
Grossman, Z., A. Parker, and B. Frank, 2012: Asserting Native Resilience: Pacific Rim Indigenous Nations Face the Climate Crisis. Oregon State University Press, 240 pp.↩ Categories: Climate change, Pacific Rim, indigenous peoples, tribe, indigenous	2012	Pacific Rim
Souza, K., and J. Tanimoto, 2012: PRiMO IKE Hui Technical Input for the National Climate Assessment – Tribal Chapter. PRiMO IKE Hui Meeting – January 2012, Hawai‘i. 5 pp., U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, D.C. URL ↩ Categories: Climate change, American Indians, Technical inputs, tribe, indigenous	2012	Northwest
Hat, Sr., A. White, 2012: Sicangu Lakota Elder, personal communication.↩	2012
Thackeray L (2012) 2012 Montana wildfires burn most acreage since 1910. Billings Gazette. 11/1/2012. Billings, MT Categories: Wildfire	2012	Northwest	Link
Kaufman, L., 2011: Seeing trends, coalition works to help a river adapt. The New York Times. URL ↩ Categories: Adaptation, salmon, fish health, Nisqually River, snowpack, flooding, stream flow	2011	Northwest	Link
Klopotek, Brian. 2011. Recognition Odysseys: Indigeneity, Race, and Federal Tribal Recognition Policy in Three Louisiana Indian Communities. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Categories: Federal Recognition, Louisiana, Tunica-Biloxi, Jena Choctaws, Clifton-Choctaws, tribe, indigenous	2011	Southeast
Krakoff, S. 2011. Radical Adaptation, Justice, and American Indian Nations. Environmental Justice 4(4): 207-212. Categories: Adaptation, historical removal from homelands, Cherokee Nation, environmental change, tribe, indigenous	2011	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.