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
Whyte, K. 2017. Indigenous Climate Change & Climate Justice Teaching Materials & Advanced Bibliography.

Categories: education, outreach, research, accessibility, planning, outreach

2017 International Link
Stephen Pyne. 2017. Recreating forests of the past isn't enough to fix our wildfire problem.

Categories: wildfire, managed fire, prescribed burn, management, prevention, ecosystem, beneficial, fuels, fire science, ecology, resilience

2017 United States, National Link
Sparling, E., P. Byer, P. Cobb and H. Auld. (2017). Best Practices for Consideration of the Effects of
Climate Change in Project-Level Environmental Assessments. Ontario Centre for Climate Impacts and
Adaptation Resources (OCCIAR) and Risk Sciences International (RSI).

Categories: climate change, climate change impacts, environmental assessment, planning, adaptation

2017 Link
O'rourke, Christian. 2017. With Chance the Rapper By His Side, This 16-Year-Old Activist & Rapper Is Setting Out to Change the Climate Game: Exclusive.

Categories: climate change, Earth Guardians, OCT, social justice, outreach, awareness, music, art, rap, hip hop,

2017 National, United States Link
Whyte, K. 2017. Indigenous Climate Change & Climate Justice Teaching Materials & Advanced Bibliography.

Categories: education, outreach, research, accessibility, planning, outreach

2017 International Link
Lundgren, H., Cook, K. 2017. Telling the “Good Fire” Story: Two Communities’ Prescribed Fire Outreach Efforts.

Categories: wildfire, managed burn, prescribed burn, management, planning, policy, adaptation, mitigation, community resilience, air quality, ecosystem, habitat

2017 Washington state, United States, National Link
McBride, B.B., Sanchez-Trigueros, F., Carver, S.J., Watson, A.E., Stumpff, L.M., Matt, R. and Borrie, W.T., 2017. Participatory Geographic Information Systems as an Organizational Platform for the Integration of Traditional and Scientific Knowledge in Contemporary Fire and Fuels Management. Journal of Forestry, 115(1), pp.43-50.

Categories: climate change, planning, policy, TEK, traditional ecological knowledge, resource management, fuel, energy

2017 National Link
Banerjee, N. 2017. Trial Date Set for Children’s Climate Lawsuit Against U.S. Government

Categories: climate change, legislation, policy, social justice, youth justice, human health, future generations, federal court,

2017 United Stated, National Link
Sankey, J. B., Kreitler, J., Hawbaker, T. J., McVay, J. L., Miller, M. E., Mueller, E. R., . . . Sankey, T. T. (2017). Climate, wildfire, and erosion ensemble foretells more sediment in western USA watersheds. Geophysical Research Letters. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/2017GL073979.

Categories: climate change, wildfire, erosion, water quality, water supply, watershed health, sedimentation

2017 United States Link
Site of Science. 2017. We Are the Ocean: An Indigenous Response to Climate Change.

Categories: climate change, pollution, debris, plastics, adaptation, mitigation, natural processes, climate science, community, art, traditions, museum

2017 International, Global Link
Colorado State University. "Forest resilience declines in face of wildfires, climate change." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 12 December 2017. .

Categories: forest resilience, wildfires, climate change

2017 Rocky Mountains, Colorado, Wyoming, Washington, Idaho, Montana Link
Babcock, Hope M. “Here Today, Gone Tomorrow--Is Global Climate Change Another White Man ’s Trick to Get Indian Land? The Role of Treaties in Protecting Tribes as They Adapt to Climate Change.” Michigan State Law Review, 2017, pp. 370–423., scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3029&context=facpub.

Categories: climate change impacts, cultural resources, sea level rise, erosion, drought, relocation, treaties, sovereignty

2017 Link
Reo, N.J., Whyte, K.P., McGregor, D., Smith, M.A. and Jenkins, J.F., 2017. Factors that support Indigenous involvement in multi-actor environmental stewardship. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, p.1177180117701028.

Categories: climate change, TEK, Indigenous science,intergenerational knowledge, self-determination, collaboration, management, technical assistance, self-determination, soverignty

2017 Naitonal Link
Hipp, Janie Simms, and Duren, Colby D. June 2017. Regaining Our Future: An Assessment of Risks and Opportunities for
Native Communities in the 2018 Farm Bill. Prior Lake, Minnesota: Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community

Categories: climate change, agriculture, Farm bill, White house, Trump Administration, federal budgeting, planning, policy, management, legislation, human health, community justice, social justice, environmental racism

2017 Southwest, Midwes, North Dakota, South Dakota, National, United States Link
Clean energy: The challenge of achieving a ‘just transition’ for workers. EcoBusiness. 2017.

Categories: climate change, economy, employment, jobs sector, emissions, carbon footprint, adaptation, mitigation

2017 Arizona, United States, International Link
Nicholson, B. 2017. Dakota Access review to re-examine impact on tribe. WKOW.

Categories: DAPL, Dakota Access pipeline, fossil fuels, oil industry, Standing Rock Sioux, environmental justice, social justice, Native rights, treaty rights, community health, human health, self-determination, self-governance, sovereignty

2017 North Dakota, Illinois, United States Link
Reuters. 2017. Indigenous people best custodians of threatened forests, studies show.

Categories: climate change, deforestation, forestry, mitigation, adaptation, jurisdiction, restricted access, technical assistance, planning, policy, conservation,

2017 National, Global, International Link
Finn, Symma, et al. “The Value of Traditional Ecological Knowledge for the Environmental Health Sciences and Biomedical Research.” Environmental Health Perspectives, vol. 125, no. 8, Aug. 2017, doi:10.1289/ehp858.

Categories: TEK, preservation, oral tradition, culture, tradition, language

2017 Link
McNeeley, S.M., Even, T.L., Gioia, J.B., Knapp, C.N. and Beeton, T.A., 2017. Expanding Vulnerability Assessment for Public Lands: The Social Complement to Ecological Approaches. Climate Risk Management.

Categories: Climate change; Public lands; Land-based livelihoods; Social vulnerability; Vulnerability assessment; Adaptation

2017 National Link
Jason Searle, Exploring Alternatives to the "Consultation or Consent" Paradigm, 6 Mich. J. Envtl. & Admin. L. 485 (2017).

Categories: DAPL, pipeline, North Dakota, Rosebud Sioux, Lakota, legislation, policy, litigation

2017 North Dakota, National Link
Grunwald, Michael. Environmentalists get a dose of good news. Politico. 2017.

Categories: TEK, traditional ecological knowledge, climate change, policy, planning, mitigation, adaptation

2017 National Link
Matthews, S. 2017. Grizzly Bears Are Now the Victims of the Trump Administration’s Climate Denialism.

Categories: conservation, climate change, climate denial, endangered species, de-listed, tribal consultation, hunting, grizzly bears

2017 California, Nevada, yellostone National Park, United States Link
Meeker, D., 2017 A Synthesis of Climate Adaptation Planning Needs in Alaska Native Communities.

Categories: Southeast Alaska, climate change, adaptation, policy, planning, management, interagency support, TEK, , oral tradition, climate science, research, 

2017 Alaska Link
Sen, Basav. 2017. Trump's War on the Climate.

Categories: climate change, federal court, resistance, social justice, climate justice, climate science, denial

2017 United States, National, Global Link
Trump Administration. 2017. Fiscal Year 2018 The Interior Budget in Brief May 2017.

Categories: Trump administration, budget, resource, allocation, financial assistance, budget cuts, programming

2017 National Link
Living on Earth. 2017. Land on Fire.

Categories: cliamte change, wildfire, forest fire, management, risk, hazard, human health, safety, disaster prevention, disaster relief, planning, policy

2017 National, United States Link
Cisneros-Montemayor AM, Pauly D, Weatherdon LV, Ota Y (2016) A Global Estimate of Seafood Consumption by Coastal Indigenous Peoples. PLoS ONE 11(12): e0166681. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0166681

Categories: climate change, marine, fisheries, aquaculture, seafood, mitigation, adaptation, food justice, economy, subsistence

2017 International Link
n.a. 2017. New Report Reveals Bank Policies Fail to Respond to Climate Risks. Commondreams.

Categories: climate change, financial assistance, insurance, lending, loans, fossil fuels, finance, energy, greenhouse gas, coal

2017 United States, National Link
Philippe. 2017. Food forests are helping these Native American reservations eat healthier.

Categories: climate change, seasonal migration, food production, food justice, social justice, climate justice, human health, noncommunicable diseases, local, sustainable, diet, nutrition, education, access

2017 National Link
Court Refuses to hear culvert case appeal. May 19, 2017. Northwest Treaty Tribes.

Categories: salmon, habitat, restoration, impediments, culvert, block, restoration, legislation, planning, policy, state government

2017 Washington state Link