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Indigenous
Peoples Specialty Group
Sponsored Session
2008 Annual Meeting
Association of American Geographers
Boston, Massachusettes, April 15-19 2008
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| Title: |
Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples III: Scientific, Historical and Indigenous Perspectives |
| Description: |
This final of three sessions on Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples looks at the intersection of scientific, historical, and indigenous knowledge about the impacts of climate change. The first paper describes a Norwegian IPY project call EALAT (Reindeer Pastoralism in a Changing Climate). The project aims to reduce the threats to reindeer husbandry from changes in the climate, environment and human-induced activities by providing usable, timely knowledge from detailed analyses of satellite data combined with traditional, local and other data and information. The second paper presents a survey of the impact of climate change on indigenous peoples in North America from about five-thousand years ago to the beginning of the eighteenth century. Included in this survey will be a handful of more detailed examples of native groups affected by climate changes. The third paper examines the impact of climate change on the 25 Federally- recognized tribes in Eastern US, including impacts on health and culture resulting from economic duress and ecological influences, and what the Tribes are doing to address these impacts. The fourth paper focuses on climate change impacts on the environment, as well as the role of local knowledge and experience in documenting and characterizing changes on the central Navajo Nation. The final paper discusses Federal partnerships that have been formed between the USGS/FGDC, FWS and FEMA to offer training to Tribal participants on GIS, GPS, Emergency Management Procedures and Operations and HAZUS-Multi Hazards. |
| Anticipated Attendance: | 100 |
| Organizers: | | RDK Herman | | Sarah F. Trainor |
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| Participants: | | Presenter: | Nancy Maynard, Indigenous and Satellite Observations of Climate Change Impacts on Arctic Pastures |
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William Carter, Climate Change and Early Native North America, c. 5000 BCE – 1700 CE |
| Presenter: | Steve Crawford, Overview of climate Change Impacts on Eastern Tribes of the US |
| Presenter: | Rachael Novak, Climate Change and Variability in the Chuska Mountains: Impacts and the Intersections of Western Science and Local Knowledge |
| Presenter: | Bonnie J. Gallahan, GIS/GPS Training for Tribes |
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| Sponsorships: | Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group
Human Dimensions of Global Change Specialty Group
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