Indigenous Climate Justice links
Climate Change & Pacific Rim Indigenous Nations Project (Evergreen)
Citizens for a Clean Harbor (Grays Harbor)
Columbia River InterTribal Fish Commission
Cowboy Indian Alliance (Nebraska)
Dot-111 Reader on oil trains
Fossil Fuel Connections (Evergreen students)
Fort Berthold Protectors of Water & Earth Rights (POWER)
Global Climate Change Impacts in the U.S.
Indigenous Environmental Network
IEN-Indigenous Tar Sands Campaign
Int’l. Institute for Indigenous Resource Mgt.
Intertribal Council on Utility Policy
Native Peoples/Native Homelands report
No Coal Trains through South Sound
No Oil Fracking Sands at Port of Olympia
Northern Plains Resource Council
Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission
Not for Any Price (Lummi vs. coal video)
Oceti Sakowin Camp (Standing Rock)
Olympia Confronting the Climate Crisis
PacificNW Tribal Climate Change Network
Quinault Nation Environmental Defense
Resources for Sustainable Communities
Sacred Stone Camp (Standing Rock)
Shallow Waters (Ta’Kaiya Blaney music video)
Sightline Institute reports
StandEarth: Stop Oil Pipelines
Swinomish Climate Change Initiative
Tribes and Climate Change (NAU)
Where Words Touch the Earth (tribal college student videos)
Wildlife Promise: Northern Cheyenne
Project links
Project Report: Climate Change and Pacific Rim Indigenous Nations, October 2006 (2 MB)
Powerpoint presentation on Climate Change and Indigenous Nations (14 MB)
Community Organizing Booklet: Northwest Tribes: Meeting the Challenge of Climate Change, 2010 (1.5 MB)
Northwest Indian Applied Research Institute (NIARI), The Evergreen State College (1999-2008)
United League of Indigenous Nations Treaty
Indigenous Nations’ Responses to Climate Change (Zoltan Grossman, American Indian Culture & Research Journal, Oct. 2008)
Indigenous Nations Include Climate Change in Historic Treaty (by Char Simons, Evergreen magazine)
United League of Indigenous Nations Formed (Indian Country Today, 8/9/07)
Lummi to Host Historic Meeting of the Nations (Indian Country Today, 7/12/07)
Proposed treaty could protect nations (Indian Country Today, 3/21/05) (U. Washington)
Indigenous Nations Treaty (Powerpoint & notes presented by Dr. Alan Parker at NCAI conference)
Global climate change–implications for indigenous practices (Lecture notes by Maori environmental scientist Dr. Ata Brett Stephenson)
Climate change–some insights for indigenous peoples (Powerpoint by Maori environmental scientist Dr. Brett Stephenson)
Global Warming (Powerpoint by Dr. Zoltan Grossman with charts, photos, maps, etc.)
Global links
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII)
Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples book (Tebtebba Foundation)
Indigenous Peoples Climate Change Assessment (U.N. University Traditional Knowledge Initiative)
The Missing Delegate at Cancún: Indigenous Peoples (Dennis Martinez, National Geographic NewsWatch, 12/8/10)
Indigenous Peoples Global Summit on Climate Change (Anchorage, April 2009) Release and Declaration
World Peoples’ Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth (Cochabamba, Bolivia, April 2010)
Climate Rage: The only way to stop global warming is for rich nations to pay for the damage they’ve done (Naomi Klein, 11/14/09)
The Most Inconvenient Truth of All: Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples (Survival International report 2009)
Indigenous Leaders at the Front of the Historic Climate March in Copenhagen (Democracy Now video, 12/14/09)
Center for World Indigenous Studies, Forum for Global Exchange
Could Just One Degree Change the World? Two Three Four Five Six (National Geographic videos on You Tube)
Demystifying Climate Change Negotiations (by Raymond de Chavez)
Statement Regarding Water, Climate Change/Global Warming and…POPs (U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, 2005)
Be Worried, Very Worried (Time special report, 4/3/06)
Dialogue Paper by Indigenous Peoples to World Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg 2002)
Indigenous peoples voice urgency on global warming (Indian Country Today, 1/5/06)
Climate Alliance of European cities and rainforest indigenous peoples
It’s Getting Hot in Here: Dispatches from the Global Youth Climate Movement
The Canary Project (photos of changing landscapes)
Globalization: Affects on Indigenous Peoples (world map pdf)
Pacific Northwest links
Climate Change Impacts on Tribal Resources (Tulalip)
Native Climate Commons (United Nations and Tulalip Tribes)
Ethnoclimate bibliography (Excel spreadsheet compiled by Preston Hardison, Tulalip Tribes)
Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission (NWIFC)
NWIFC Spirit of the Salmon video and resource guide
Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission (CRITFC)
First Stewards: Coastal Peoples Address Climate Change (NMAI, Washington DC, 7/17-20/12)
Swinomish Climate Change Initiative (Adaptation Strategy Toolbox and Draft Impact Assessment Technical Report)
Nisqually-Olympia McAllister Wellfield Partnership (moving water source from Medicine Creek to wells on higher ground)
Tribal Climate Change Forum (Sustainable Northwest, 2009)
Teacher’s Domain: Where Words Touch the Earth (climate change online videos produced by tribal college filmmakers at Northwest Indian College)
Pacific Northwest coastal tribes facing climate change disruptions (Mother Earth Journal, 11/13/09)
Global Climate Change Impacts on the Coasts (U.S. Global Change Research Program/NOAA, 6/09)
Quinault President Fawn Sharp testimony on climate change effects, incentives and funding (Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, 10/28/09)
Tribal Sovereignty is jeopardized by climate crisis (Shelly Vendiola, Race-Talk 4/22/10)
Energy Planning: A Guide for Northwest Indian Tribes
Pacific Northwest Research Station (U.S. Forest Service)
First Nations Summit (B.C.)
Coast Salish Gathering (B.C./Washington)
Community Alliance & Peacemaking Project (CAPP), Seattle
Climate Impacts Group (U. Washington)
State of the Salmon (maps)
Sea-level rise on Pacific Northwest coast (NWF)
Climate Change Implications for Quileute and Hoh Tribes of Washington (Chelsie R. Papiez Master’s Thesis, 2009)
Other North America links
National Congress of American Indians (NCAI)
National Tribal Environmental Council (NTEC)
NWF Tribal Lands Climate Conference (Cocopah Nation AZ, 2006)
Assembly of First Nations (AFN)
Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) Climate Justice Campaign
Circles of Wisdom: Native Peoples – Native Homelands Climate Change Workshop (U.S. Global Change Program, 1998)
Native Peoples/Native Homelands Climate Change Workshop II (Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, MN, Nov. 18-21, 2009)
Mystic Lake Declaration (of Native Peoples/Native Homelands Workshop II, 11/21/09)
Impacts of Climate Change on Tribes in the United States (National Tribal Air Association, 12/11/09)
Native Communities and Climate Change: Protecting Tribal Resources as Part of National Climate Policy (University of Colorado Natural Resources Law Center, 2007)
American Indian & Alaska Native Climate Change Working Group
Planning for Seven Generations: Indigenous & Scientific Approaches to Climate Change (Boulder, 3/08)
Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States (U.S. Global Change Research Program/NOAA, 6/09)
Tribes and Climate Change (N. Arizona Univ.)
Red Alert!: Saving the Planet with Indigenous Knowledge (by Dr. Daniel Wildcat, 2009)
Managing the Risks of Climate Change: Interactive Guide for Arctic & Northern Communities
Mother Earth: Confronting the Challenge of Climate Change Symposium (NMAI Smithsonian, 6/09)
Addressing the Impacts of Climate Change on America’s Water, Land, and Other Natural and Cultural Resources (Interior Dept Secretarial Order No. 3289)
Power Paths (PBS Independent Lens documentary on Native energy issues, 10/09)
Native Americans Move to Forefront on Climate (John C. Topping, Jr., President, Climate Institute)
Bridging divides at climate change symposium (Indian Country Today, 3/31/08)
Lakota Chief Arvol Looking Horse on global warming (10/06)
Arctic Indigenous Peoples Unveil Statement on Climate Change (6/12/05)
Inuit Circumpolar Conference (ICC) climate change petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (12/7/05) (Description, Summary, Full text)
Climate Change and Inuit Human Rights (ICC resolution, 2003)
Intertribal Council on Utility Power (COUP) (fighting climate change through Native renewable energy)
Native Wind (wind energy on reservations)
Bering Sea Climate is Shifting (Los Angeles Times, 3/10/06)
Environmental Justice and Climate Change (EJCC) Initiative
Tribal Campus Climate Challenge
Native Americas Special Issue on Global Warming, Climate Change & Native Lands (Fall/Winter 1999).
Pacific links
Table of Pacific Rim countries
South Pacific Forum (SPF)
Asia-Pacific Network on Climate Change (APNet)
South Pacific Organizations Coordinating Committee (SPOCC)
Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)
Republic of the Marshall Islands climate change website
Climate Change and the Pacific Islands (Ministerial Conference on Environmental & Development in Asia & the Pacific, 2000)
Sinking Feeling (Time, 8/01)
Climate Convention (1999)
Pacific Worlds (Indigenous regional geographies)