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
Bronen, R., 2011: Climate-induced community relocations: Creating an adaptive governance framework based in human rights doctrine. New York University Review Law & Social Change, 35, 357-408. URL ↩ Categories: Climate change, coastal retreat, climigration, tribe, indigenous	2011	Global	Link
Redsteer, M. H., 2011: Increasing Vulnerability to Drought and Climate Change on the Navajo Nation, Southwestern United States. Current Conditions & Accounts Of Changes During The Last 100 Years. 31 pp., U.S. Geological Survey. 0928. URL ↩ Categories: Climate change, Drought, Navajo Nation, tribe, indigenous	2011
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
Brubaker MY, Bell JN, Berner JE, Warren JA (2011) Climate change health assessment: A novel approach for Alaska Native communities. Int J Circumpol Heal 70: 266-273. Categories: community-scale assessment, observation-based data, climate health impacts, Adaptation, tribe, indigenous	2011	Alaska, Arctic	Link
Redsteer, M. H., K. B. Kelley, H. Francis, and D. Block, 2011: Disaster Risk Assessment Case Study: Recent Drought on the Navajo Nation, Southwestern United States. Contributing Paper for the Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction. 19 pp., United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA. URL↩ Categories: Disaster Risk Assessment, Four Corners, Navajo Nation, Drought, Southwest, tribe, indigenous	2011	Southwest
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
Brubaker, M. Y., J. N. Bell, J. E. Berner, and J. A. Warren, 2011: Climate change health assessment: A novel approach for Alaska Native communities. International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 70, doi:10.3402/ijch.v70i3.17820.↩ Categories: indigenous, Arctic, Climate change, Alaska Natives, health assessment, tribe	2011	Alaska. Arctic	Link
Redsteer, M. H., R. C. Bogle, and J. M. Vogel, 2011: Monitoring and Analysis of Sand Dune Movement and Growth on the Navajo Nation, Southwestern United States. Fact Sheet Number 3085. U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA. URL↩ Categories: Sand Dunes, Navajo Nation, Southwest, tribe, indigenous	2011	Southwest
Buckley, G.L. and A. Allen. 2011. Stories about mountaintop removal in the Appalachian coalfields. In M. Morrone and G.L. Buckley (eds.) Mountains of injustice: social and environmental justice in Appalachia. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. Pp. 161-180. Categories: Appalachia, Mountaintop removal	2011
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
Burkett M(2011) The nation ex-situ: on climate change, deterritorialized nationhood, and the post-climate era. Clim Law 2(3):345–374 Categories: Climate-induced displacement, Climate change, climate migration, international law	2011	International
Shearer, C., 2011: Kivalina: A Climate Change Story. Haymarket Books, 198 pp.↩ Categories: Kivalina, Climate change, Alaska, tribe, indigenous	2011	Alaska, Arctic
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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: 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
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
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
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
Feifel, K. (2010). Stream Temperature Monitoring Network for Cook Inlet Salmon Streams [Case study on a project of Cook Inletkeeper]. Product of EcoAdapt's State of Adaptation Program. Retrieved from CAKE: www.cakex.org/case-studies/stream-temperature-monitoring-network-cook-in... (Last updated March 2010) Categories: water temperature, stream monitoring, Cook Inlet Watershed, salmon, planning, adaptation	2010, updated in 2019	Cook Inlet, Alaska	Link
Bjørst, Lill R. 2010. The tip of the iceberg: Ice as the non-human actor in the climate change debate. Études/Inuit/Studies 34(1): 134–150. Categories: environmental change, Inuit, framing, framing of climate change, tribe, indigenous	2010	Arctic, Global	Link
Krupnik, Igor, Aporta, Claudio, Gearheard, Shari, Laidler, Gita J., and Lene Kielsen Holm. 2010. SIKU: Knowing Our Ice. Documenting Inuit Sea Ice Knowledge and Use. Dorderecht: Springer. Categories: tribe, indigenous	2010
Bronen R., 2010. Forced Migration of Alaskan Indigenous Communities Due to Climate Change, T. Afifi and J. Jager (editors) Environment Forced Migration and Social Vulnerability, International Organization of Migration. Categories: Climate-induced displacement, Climate change, Migration, Alaska, tribe, indigenous	2010	Alaska, Arctic	Link
Laidler, Gita J., Elee, Pootoogoo, Ikummaq, Teo, Joamie, Eric, and Claudio Aporta. 2010. Mapping Inuit sea ice knowledge, use, and change in Nunavut, Canada (Cape Dorset, Igloolik, Pangnirtung). In SIKU: Knowing Our Ice. Documenting Inuit Sea Ice Knowledge and Use. Igor Krupnik, Claudio Aporta, Shari Gearheard, Gita J. Laidler, and Lene Kielsen Holm, eds. Dorderecht: Springer, pp. 45–80. Categories: tribe, indigenous	2010
Bronen R., 2010. Forced Migration of Alaskan Indigenous Communities Due to Climate Change, T. Afifi and J. Jager (editors) Environment Forced Migration and Social Vulnerability, International Organization of Migration. Categories: Climate-induced displacement, social vulnerability, tribe, indigenous	2010	Alaska, 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.