Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples in the United States (eBook)

Fifty authors from tribal communities, academia, government agencies and NGOs contributed to the book, which explores climate-related issues in indigenous communities in the U.S., including loss of traditional knowledge, forests and ecosystems; food security and traditional foods and water, Arctic sea ice loss, permafrost thaw and relocation.

Introduction: climate change and indigenous peoples of the USA.- Justice forward: Tribes, climate adaptation and responsibility.- Culture, law, risk and governance: contexts of traditional knowledge in climate change adaptation.- The impacts of climate change on tribal traditional.- Indigenous frameworks for observing and responding to climate change in Alaska.- Climate change impacts on the water resources of American Indians and Alaska Natives in the U.S..- Climate change in arid lands and Native American socioeconomic vulnerability: The case of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe.- The impact of climate change on tribal communities in the US: displacement, relocation, and human rights.- Cultural impacts to tribes from climate change influences on forests.- Changing stream flow on Columbia basin tribal lands—climate change and salmon.- Exploring effects of climate change on Northern Plains American Indian health.- The effect of climate change on glacier ablation and base flow support in the Nooksack River basin and implications on Pacific salmonid species protection and recovery.- Re-thinking colonialism to prepare for the impacts of rapid environmental change.