Climate Change and the Native American Indian and Other Indigenous Groups

1. Annotated
BibliographyCOLLEEN A SLEBZAK
ANT 290: NATIVE AMERICAN INDIANS AND CLIMATE CHANGE

2. Indigenous and Native
individuals have a specific
and vital “traditional
knowledge” that may hold
solutions for adaptations to
climate change for the
human race. By incorporating
traditional ecological
knowledge (TEK) with
scientific applications,
environmental policies are
beginning to personifying
sustainability.
ABSTRACT

3. Native and indigenous individuals
face serious challenges (around the
world), due to climate change:
socially, economically,
culturally, physically, and
environmentally.
EXTERNALTIES OF CLIMATE
CHANGE
Fig. 1
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4. MITIGATION
TEK and Native and indigenous
individual’s observations can
contribute greatly to adaptation
strategies on an international level;
with mainstream policies geared
toward sustainability of the
environment and preserving Native
and indigenous identities in the
process.
Fig. 2
Fig. 1

5. CURRENT & FUTURE MITIGATION STRATIGIES
in various regions of the world can be…
POSITIVE
In that they include TEK and
indigenous perspectives (while
preserving indigenous and Native
peoples’ cultural identities…
-OR- NEGATIVE
Are those that exclude
Native and indigenous
perspectives, TEK, and
their cultures all
together…
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