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
Redsteer, M. Hiza, Bogle, R.C., and Vogel J.M. (2011a) Monitoring and Analysis of Sand Dune Movement and Growth on the Navajo Nation, Southwestern United States. U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2011-3085, Available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2011/3085/. Categories: tribe, indigenous	2011	Southwest
Couvillion, Brady A., John A. Barras, Gregory D. Steyer, William Sleavin, Michelle Fischer, Holly Beck, Nadine Trahan, Brad Griffin, and David Heckman. 2011 Land Area Change in Coastal Louisiana from 1932 to 2010: U.S. Geological Survey. Scientific Investigations Map 3164. http://pubs.usgs.gov/sim/3164/downloads/SIM3164_Pamphlet.pdf Categories: land area change	2011	Southeast	Link
Shearer, C., 2011: Kivalina: A Climate Change Story. Haymarket Books, 198 pp.↩ Categories: Kivalina, Climate change, Alaska, tribe, indigenous	2011	Alaska, Arctic
Crate, Susan A. 2011. Climate and Culture: Anthropology in the Era of Contemporary Climate Change. Annual Review of Anthropology 40:173–194. Categories: Climate change, perceptions, adaptation and resilience, research approaches, anthropological role(s), climate ethnography, tribe, indigenous	2011	Global	Link
Shonkoff, S.B., Morello-Frosch, R., Pastor, M., and Sadd, J. (2011) The Climate Gap: environmental health and equity implications of climate change and mitigation politics in California- A Review of the Literature: Climatic Change, DOI 10.1007/s10584-011-0310-7, 19p. Categories: Climate Gap, Environmental Health, California	2011	California
DOE, 2011: Tribal Energy Program: Financial Assistance and Project Management. 49 pp., U.S. Department of Energy. URL ↩ Categories: Tribal energy program, tribe, indigenous	2011	United States
Therrell, M. D., and M. J. Trotter, 2011: Waniyetu Wówapi: Native American records of weather and climate. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 92, 583-592, doi:10.1175/2011bams3146.1. URL ↩ Categories: weather records, tribe, indigenous	2011	Great Plains
Donatuto, J., T.A. Satterfield, and R. Gregory. 2011. Poisoning the body to nourish the soul: Prioritizing health risks and impacts in a Native American community. Health, Risk, and Society (13)2: 103–127. Categories: Native American, risk, Risk Assessment, seafood, Contamination, mental models, community health, cultural health, tribe, indigenous	2011	Northwest	Link
University of Oregon, 2011: Climate Change: Realities of Relocation for Alaska Native Villages. Tribal Climate Change Project-Tribal Profiles. 5 pp., The University of Oregon, Eugene, OR. URL ↩ Categories: Relocation, Alaska, tribe, indigenous	2011	Alaska
Tillmann, P. and Siemann, D., 2011. Climate change effects and adaptation approaches in marine and coastal ecosystems of the North Pacific landscape conservation cooperative region: a compilation of scientific literature, phase 1 draft final report. National Wildlife Federation for the US Fish and Wildlife Service Region, 1. Categories: Southeast Alaska, shellfish, butter clams, cockles, coastal change, precipitation, coastal welling, coastal squeeze, hypoxia, anoxia, runoff timing, glacier/glacial retreat, coastal erosion, coastal change, migratory shorebirds, tidal flats, inundation, new species, TEK, Zostera marina, j. Japonica, eelgrass, climate change, sea level rise, adaptation, geomorphology, streamflow, hydrology, controlled burn, wildfire	2011	Alaska	Link
Downing, A., & Cuerrier, A. (2011). A synthesis of the impacts of climate change on the First Nations and Inuit of Canada. Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge, 10(1), 57-70. Categories: Climate change, Food Security, Cultural activity, Malaysia Borneo, tribe, indigenous	2011	Canada
University of Oregon, 2011: First Foods and Climate Change Report. Tribal Climate Change Project-Tribal Profiles. 6 pp., The University of Oregon, Eugene, OR. URL ↩ Categories: Climate change, Traditional foods, tribe, indigenous	2011	United States
Harris, Gary; Lynn, Kathy; MacKendrick, Katie; Satein, Hannah; University of Oregon (UO) Resource Innovation Group; UO Institute for a Sustainable Environment. 2011. Effectiveness of the Federal-Tribal Relationship. Report Submitted as part of Northwest Forest Plan 15 Year Reports. R6-RPM-TP-01-2011. Categories: Policy, Northwest Forest Plan, Consultation, Co-Management, Natural Resource Management, Forestry	2011	Northwest	Link
Earle, Lynda, 2011: Traditional Aboriginal Diets and Health. National Collaborating Centre for Aborignal Health. Categories: Traditional foods, Indigenous health, Canada, tribe, indigenous	2011	Canada	Link
Whyte, K. Powys, 2011: The recognition dimensions of environmental justice in Indian Country. Environmental Justice, 4, 185-186, doi:10.1089/env.2011.4401.↩ Categories: Environmental Justice, Native American environmental thought, environmental ethics, environmental policy, tribal governance, Indian environmental law, tribe, indigenous	2011	United States
Enarson, E. 2011. Does Violence Against Women Increase In Disasters? Categories: Hurricane Katrina, gender based violence	2011	Southeast
Federal Emergency Management Agency (2011) The National Flood Insurance Program Community Status Book. Retrieved November 18, 2011, from http://www.fema.gov/fema/csb.shtm	2011
Ferguson, D. B., C. Alvord, M. Crimmins, H. M. Redsteer, M. Hayes, C. McNutt, R. Pulwarty, and M. Svoboda, 2011:Drought Preparedness for Tribes in the Four Corners Region. Report from April 2010 Workshop. Tucson, AZ: Climate Assessment for the Southwest. 42 pp., The Climate Assessment for the Southwest (CLIMAS), The Institute of the Environment, The University of Arizona. URL ↩ Categories: assessment, Four Corners Region, Drought, tribe, indigenous	2011	Southwest
Glicksman, R. L., C. O’Neill, Y. Huang, W. L. Andreen, R. K. Craig, V. B. Flatt, W. Funk, D. D. Goble, A. Kaswan, and R. R. M. Verchick, 2011: Climate Change and the Puget Sound: Building the Legal Framework for Adaptation. Lewis & Clark Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2011-18. Center For Progressive Reform. URL ↩ Categories: Puget Sound, Climate change, adaptationtribe, indigenous	2011	Northwest
Harris, S., and Harper, B., (2011) A Method for Tribal Environmental Justice Analysis. Vol. 4, No.4, Environmental Justice, p. 231-237. Categories: Environmental Justice, National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), traditional lifeways, Risk Assessment, tribe, indigenous	2011	United States	Link
Heyes, Scott A. 2011. Cracks in the knowledge: sea ice terms in Kangiqsualujjuaq, Nunavik. The Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe Canadien 55(1): 69–90. Categories: Keywords: sea ice, Inuit knowledge, knowledge transmission, generations, Inuktitut, tribe, indigenous	2011	Canada, Arctic	Link
Teresa G. Jacobs and Santi Alston. Climate Change Impacts on Tribes’ Off-Reservation Resources: Legal Avenues for Protection. 2011. Categories: legal strategies, off-reservation resources, cultural resource protection, traditional subsistence, prevention, ecological removal, treaty-protected,	2011	National, United States	Link
Hovelsrud, Grete, Krupnik, Igor, and Jeremy L. White. 2011. Human-based observing systems. In Understanding Earth’s Polar Challenges. International Polar Year, 2007–2008. Krupnik, Igor, Allison, Ian, Bell, Robin, Cutler, Paul, Hik, David, Lopéz-Martinéz, Jeronimo, Rachold, Volker, Summerheyes, Colin, and Eduard Sarukhanian, eds. Edmonton: Canadian Circumpolar Institute, pp. 435-456. Categories: Antarctic, Arctic, International Polar Year, tribe, indigenous	2011	Arctic	Link
Lynn, Kathy; MacKendrick, Katharine; and Donoghue, Ellen M. 2011. Social vulnerability and climate change: synthesis of literature. Gen. Tech. Rep. Categories: social vulnerability, socioeconomic, cultural, political, social, health, climate justice, vulnerable populations, knowledge gaps, social impacts	2011	National, United States, International	Link
ITEP, 2011: Tribal Profiles. Alaska - Athabascan Region. Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals. www4.nau.edu/tribalclimatechange/tribes/ak_athabascan.asp↩ Categories: Alaska, Athabascan Region, tribe, indigenous	2011	Alaska, Arctic
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
Gary Harris (tech ed). 2011. Northwest Forest Plan - The First 15 Years [1994-2008]: Effectiveness of the Federal-Tribal Relationship. Tech. Paper R6-RPM-TP-01-2011. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region Categories: Northwest, Forest plan, tribal integration, collaboration, monitoring tribal-federal relationships	2011	Northwest, Oregon, Northern California, Washington	Link
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
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

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.