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
Turner, N. J., R. Gregory, C. Brooks, L. Failing, and T. Satterfield. 2008. From invisibility to transparency: Identifying the implications. Ecology and Society 13(2): 7. Categories: First Nations, decision making, resource use, negotiations, cultural values, tribe, indigenous	2008	Western North America
Alessa L, Kliskey A, Busey R, Hinzman L, White D (2008) Freshwater vulnerabilities and resilience on the Seward Peninsula: integrating multiple dimensions of landscape change. Global Environ Chang 18:256–270 Categories: Arctic, Landscape change, resilience, Social–ecological systems, vulnerability, Mapping, tribe, indigenous	2008	Arctic	Link
Bailey, Garrick A., ed. 2008. Indians in Contemporary Society. Handbook of North American Indians. Vol. 2. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution. Categories: tribe, indigenous	2008	North America	Link
Berkes, F., 2008: Sacred Ecology, 2nd Ed. Routledge, 314 pp. Categories: resource management, Traditional Knowledge, indigenous peoples, tribe, indigenous	2008	Global
Chapin, F. S., Trainor, S. F., Huntington, O., Lovecraft, A. L., Zavaleta, E., Natcher, D. C., ... & Naylor, R. L. (2008). Increasing wildfire in Alaska's boreal forest: pathways to potential solutions of a wicked problem. BioScience, 58(6), 531-540. Categories: Alaska, global change, scale, Wildfire, wicked problem, tribe, indigenous	2008	Alaska
Cordalis, D., & Suagee, D. B. (2008). The effects of climate change on American Indian and Alaska Native tribes. Natural Resources & Environment, 45-49. Categories: Climate change, American Indians, Alaska Natives, treaty rights, tribe, indigenous	2008	United States	Link
Sigler, M. F., R. J. Foy, J. W. Short, M. Dalton, L. B. Eisner, T. P. Hurst, J. F. Morado, and R. P. Stone. 2008. Forecast fish, shellfish and coral population responses to ocean acidification in the north Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea: An ocean acidification research plan for the Alaska Fisheries Science Center. AFSC Processed Rep. 2008-07, 35 p. Alaska Fish. Sci. Cent., NOAA, Natl. Mar. Fish. Serv., 17109 Point Lena Loop Road, Juneau AK 99801. Categories: Southeast Alaska, shellfish, coastal change, Holkham bay, ocean acidification, king crab, Pacific Cod, fisheries, coral, plankton, marine mammal, seabird,	2008	Alaska	Link
Gessner, B. D. (2008). Lack of piped water and sewage services is associated with pediatric lower respiratory tract infection in Alaska. The Journal of pediatrics, 152(5), 666-670. Categories: Health, Water services, Alaska, tribe, indigenous	2008	Alaska, Arctic
Hennessy, T. W., Ritter, T., Holman, R. C., Bruden, D. L., Yorita, K. L., Bulkow, L., ... & Smith, J. (2008). The relationship between in-home water service and the risk of respiratory tract, skin, and gastrointestinal tract infections among rural Alaska natives. American Journal of Public Health, 98(11), 2072-2078. Categories: Health, Water services, Infections, Rural Alaska, tribe, indigenous	2008	Alaska, Arctic	Link
Higuera, P. E., L. B. Brubaker, P. M. Anderson, T. A. Brown, A. T. Kennedy, and F. S. Hu, 2008: Frequent fires in ancient shrub tundra: Implications of paleorecords for arctic environmental change. PLoS ONE, 3, e0001744, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001744. URL ↩ Categories: Arctic, Fires, environmental change	2008	Alaska, Arctic	Link
Harris, P. M., A. D. Neff, S. W. Johnson, and J. F. Thedinga. 2008. Eelgrass habitat and faunal assemblages in the City and Borough of Juneau, Alaska. U.S. Dep. Commer., NOAA Tech. Memo. NMFSAFSC-182, 46 p. Categories: Southeast Alaska, eelgrass, habitat, spawning, Zostera marina, shoreline, coastal, marine, herring, shellfish, fisheries, water quality, biotic species,	2008	Alaska	Link
James, K., Hall, D., and Redsteer, M. H., (2008) Organizational Environmental Justice with a Navajo (Diné) Nation Case Example. In Research in Social Issues in Management, Stephen Gilliland, Dirk Steiner, and Daniel Skarlicki, eds.; Information Age Publishing, Greenwich, CT, p.263-290. Categories: enviromental injustice, Reservation, Environmental management, Environmental Protection, Coal mining, Navajo Nation, Diné, tribe, indigenous, Environmental Justice	2008	Southwest
Jenkins, P. Phillips, B. 2008. Domestic Violence and Hurricane Katrina. Categories: Domestic violence, Hurricane Katrina	2008	Southeast
Krakoff, S., 2008: American Indians, Climate Change, and Ethics for a Warming World. University of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-19. Denver University Law Review. URL ↩ Categories: indigenous, tribe, Climate change, ethnics, Treaties	2008	United States	Link
Laidler, Gita J. and Teo Ikummaq. 2008. Human Geographies of Sea Ice: Freeze/thaw processes around Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada. Polar Record 44 (229): 127-153 Categories: sea ice, Inuit knowledge, Language, environmental change, tribe, indigenous	2008	Arctic	Link
Legislature, Alaska State. 2008. Final Commission Report: Alaska Climate Impact Assessment Commission. Categories: Southeast Alaska, traditional knowledge, TEK, climate change, relocation, vulnerability assessment	2008	Alaska
McNutt, D., 2008: Native Peoples: The "Miners Canary" on Climate Change. 16 pp., Northwest Indian Applied Research Institute, Evergreen State College. URL ↩ Categories: tribe, indigenous	2008
Muir, J.D., (1911) My First Summer in the Sierra. Copyright 2008, Digireads.com, 120 p.	2008
Newcomb, S. T., 2008: Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery. Fulcrum Publishing, 216 pp. URL ↩ Categories: U.S. federal Indian law, Indian policy, cognitive theory, Race relations, Religion, tribe, indigenous	2008	United States
Pfeiffer J, Voeks R (2008) Biological invasions and biocultural diversity: linking ecological and cultural systems. Environ Conserv 35:281–293. doi:10.1017/S0376892908005146 Categories: Alien species, biocultural diversity, biological invasions, cultural diversity, diaspora, exotic species, indigenous, introduced species, Invasive Species, traditions, Weeds	2008
Piguet, Etienne. 2008 Climate Change and Forced Migration. New Issues in Refugee Research. Research	2008		Link
Amnesty International USA. 2007. Maze of injustice: the failure to protect Indigenous women from sexual violence in the USA. http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/issues/women-s-rights/violence-against-women/maze-of-injustice. (July 7, 2014). Categories: Indigenous women, sexual violence, tribe, indigenous	2007	United States
Anisimov, O. A., D. G. Vaughan, T. V. Callaghan, C. Furgal, H. Marchant, T. D. Prowse, H. Vilhjálmsson, and J. E. Walsh, 2007: Polar regions (Arctic and Antarctic). Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, M.L. Parry, O.F. Canziani, J.P. Palutikof, P.J. Van der Linden, and C.E. Hanson, Eds., Cambridge University Press, 653-685. Categories: Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation, vulnerability	2007	International
Bartrop, Paul R. 2007 Episodes from the Genocide of the Native Americans: A Review Essay. Genocide Studies and Prevention. 2(2): 183–190. Categories: Historical Displacement, Genocide, Native Americans, tribe, indigenous	2007	United States	Link
Bureau of Indian Affairs (2007) Artman to Inspect Fire Damage on La Jolla and Rincon Reservations; Will Meet with Tribal, Federal and State Officials on Relief Efforts: Department of Interior Media Advisory. Categories: tribe, indigenous	2007	La Jolla Reservation, Rincon Reservation, California	Link
City of San Diego (2007) After Action Report- October 2007 Wildfires: City of San Diego Response Team, 89p.	2007		Link
Frumhoff PC, McCarthy JJ, Melillo JM, Moser SC, and Wuebbles DJ, 2007: Confronting Climate Change in the U.S. Northeast: Science, Impacts, and Solutions. Synthesis report of the Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment (NECIA). Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, MA. Categories: Climate change, Northeast, Coastal Impacts, marine impacts, forests impacts, Agricultural Impacts, Winter recreation, Human Health, Impact Assessment	2007	Northeast	Link
Gorin, T., and Pisor, K., (2007) California’s Residential Electricity Consumption. Prices, and Bills, 1980-2005.	2007		Link
Hanna, J., 2007: Native Communities and Climate Change: Protecting Tribal Resources as Part of National Climate Policy. 69 pp., Natural Resources Law Center, University of Colorado School of Law, Boulder, Colorado. URL Categories: Climate change, Tribal resources, tribe, indigenous	2007	United States	Link
Hanna, Jonathan. 2007 Native Communities and Climate Change: Legal and Policy Approaches to Protect Tribal Legal Rights. Natural Resources Law Center, Boulder, CO. Categories: Climate change, environmental policy, Federal Government, Law, Natural Resources, policy, State Government, Tribal Governments, tribe, indigenous	2007	United States	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.