Listening to Tribes and understanding Tribal priorities drives our programs and services we offer.

Climate Change Working Groups and Networks

Newsletters/ListservsLink
Bureau of Indian Affairs Climate News Listserv
Circulates announcements online. Contact Rachel Novak, BIA Climate Change Coordinator
Rachel.Novak@bia.gov
Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals
Monthly Tribes and Tribal Wellbeing for Seven Generations Program Newsletter
/newsletters
Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC)
The Southern Rockies Landscape Conservation Cooperative is a self-directed, landscape-scale partnership supporting and enhancing on-the-ground conservation efforts through production and dissemination of applied science for natural and cultural resource management decision makers.
Click here to sign up
lccnetwork.org /news #?page=0
Rising Voices Listserv
The Rising Voices: Climate Resilience through Indigenous and Earth Sciences program facilitates cross-cultural approaches for adaptation solutions to extreme weather and climate events, climate variability and climate change. Contact to be added to listserv: Heather Lazrus – hlazrus@ucar.edu or Julie Maldonaldo – jkmaldo@gmail.com
risingvoices .ucar.edu/
Working GroupsLink
Climate and Traditional Knowledges Workgroup
This is a work group of indigenous persons, staff of indigenous governments and organizations, and experts with experience working with issues concerning traditional knowledges.
toolkit .climate.gov/ tool /guidelines-
considering -traditional -knowledges…
Indigenous People’s Climate Change Working Group (IPCCWG)
For more information, contact Dan Wildcat at dwildcat@haskell.edu
vimeo.com /channels /1202840 /203887329
Indigenous Phenology Network
This is a grassroots organizations whose participants are interested in understanding phenology on lands and species of importance to native peoples.
usanpn.org/nn /indigenous -phenology -network
NetworkLink
Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (ANTI) Climate Change Program
The ANTI Climate Change Program provides best practices and approaches to address climate change impacts, strategies to protect Tribal treaty rights and trust resources and support & ensure ANTI member Tribes are aware of climate change programs, funding, adaptation/mitigation efforts at the regional, national, and international levels.
atnitribes.org/ climatechange/
Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange (CAKE)
The world’s largest and most used source of climate adaptation case studies and resources. Share lessons, ideas, and opportunities with others in the field.
cakex.org
Great Plains Tribal Water Alliance
The Great Plains Tribal Water Alliance, founded in 2006, is comprised of the Oglala Sioux, Rosebud Sioux, Standing Rock Sioux, the Flandreau Santee Sioux and other Tribal Nations in the Great Plains Region. The Alliance is an independent corporation that serves as a public outreach, research and education organization dedicated to the protection and preservation of the Missouri River, its tributaries, and all aquifers and ground water sources located within the Great Plains region. The Alliance’s goals are to provide policy recommendations and technical support on all water issues in the Great Plains.
tribalwater alliance.org
Native American Fish and Wildlife Society
A national Native American non-profit organization, the Native American Fish & Wildlife Society, serves as a communication medium for self-determined Native American fish and wildlife managers. We serve as a communication network between tribal, federal, and state fish and wildlife management entities.
nafws.org/
Northeast Indigenous Climate Resilience Network
The Northeast Indigenous Climate Resilience Network (NICRN) seeks to convene Indigenous peoples to identify threats to Indigenous self-determination and ways of life and to formulate adaptation and mitigation strategies, dialogues, and educational programs that build Indigenous capacities to address climate-related issues.
nicrn.org/
Pacific Northwest Tribal Climate Change Network
The PNW Tribal Climate Change Network fosters communication between tribes, agencies, and other entities about climate change policies, programs, and research needs pertaining to tribes and climate change. The Network meets via conference call on the third Wednesday of each month. The Network provides regular input into ongoing research, resource development and general efforts of the Tribal Climate Change Project. Participants in the Network have cited a critical need for coordination and collaboration between agencies and organizations to meet the needs tribes have in accessing climate change resources and information. To join the Network email list, email Kathy Lynn at kathy@uoregon.edu.
tribalclimate .uoregon .edu/network/
Rising Voices
The Rising Voices: Climate Resilience through Indigenous and Earth Sciences program facilitates cross-cultural approaches for adaptation solutions to extreme weather and climate events, climate variability and climate change. The program brings social and physical scientists and engineers together with Native American community members to assess critical community needs and to pursue joint research aimed at developing optimal plans for community action towards sustainability.
risingvoices .ucar .edu
South Central Climate Adaptation Science Center: Quarterly Engagement Call
The Quarterly Tribal Engagement Call is to promote open communication between all federal agency members in the South Central Region who work with tribes and climate change. The purpose for this open communication is for us all to become more efficient in helping tribal staff with their needs. The calls also allow all federal agency workers in the region who work with tribes and climate change to be aware of the projects we are all working on as to increase the diversity of our projects and to prevent any redundancy of projects. For more information contact:
April Taylor, Greater South Central region, April.Taylor@chickasaw.net
Atherton Phleger, New Mexico region, aphleger@ou.edu
 
United South and Eastern Tribes
The United South and Eastern Tribes, Inc. is a non-profit, inter-tribal organization that consists of 33 federally recognized Tribal Nations with goals of promoting and protecting the inherent sovereignty rights of all Tribal Nations, pursuing opportunities that enhance Tribal Nation rebuilding, and working to ensure that the United States upholds its sacred trust responsibilities to Tribes. Visit the new Climate Change Tools, Resources, and Publications page here.
usetinc.org

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Nikki Cooley
Co-Director
Nikki.Cooley@nau.edu

Karen Cozzetto
Manager
Karen.Cozzetto@nau.edu

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Rebecca Stevens

Chair

Coeur d’Alene Tribe – Idaho

Program Manager/Restoration Coordinator
Working with the Tribe since: 2005

Rebecca is the Program Manager for the Tribe’s Natural Resources Department-Hazardous Waste Management Program. She also serves the role as the Restoration Coordinator with the Restoration Partnership. Rebecca has been working on water quality related issues for over 19 years. She represents the Tribe in the Bunker Hill Mining and Metallurgical Complex Superfund Site working with EPA while implementing their remedy for the Basin. She is also the Tribe’s Restoration Coordinator for the Restoration Partnership for which all Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) claims have been settled and on the ground restoration work has been underway since 2019. Rebecca continues to work with other Tribes on NRDA issues while coordinating with the US DOI, USDA, and the State of Idaho.

Rebecca is a proud member of the Tribal Waste and Response Steering Committee where she also serves on the Tribal Superfund Work Group and Advisory Council. Rebecca enjoys x-country skiing in the winter, summertime water sports, Frisbee golf, and spending time with her friends, family, and blue heeler. Rebecca is very honored to work for the Coeur d’Alene Tribe and is proud to be a part of restoring natural resources in the Coeur d’Alene Basin.

Rebecca can be reached by e-mail at rstevens@cdatribe-nsn.gov.

National Tribal Forum on Air Quality

The National Tribal Forum on Air Quality (NTFAQ) aims to support tribal programs by fostering information-sharing and networking opportunities that are focused on building tribal capacity in air quality management. The event’s agenda is driven by tribal input and priorities, with a focus on increasing tribal engagement in air quality initiatives that are relevant to tribal communities across the nation.