Northeast Indigenous Climate Resilience Network
The Northeast Indigenous Climate Resilience Network 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.” The Network’s website provides tools and resources to support climate change adaptation and resilience planning, including literature, funding opportunities, projects and events.
The Network engages many Tribes, inter-Tribal organizations, and scientific partners - including the Sustainable Development Institute at the College of Menominee Nation, the DOI’s Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center, Sustainable Climate Risk Management, Great Lakes Integrated Sciences and Assessments Center (GLISA) and the Timnick Chair and National Science Foundation funded programming at Michigan State University.
The Northeast region of this network includes the Great Lakes and the Northeastern coastal region and the states of Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, West Virginia, Delaware, Missouri, New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine.This region includes a diverse array of ecosystems including the Atlantic Coast, temperate and boreal forests, the St. Lawrence River, tallgrass prairies, the Appalachian Mountains, oak woodlands, and the Great Lakes. Tribal Nations in this region include the Red Lake Nation in Minnesota, Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, the Haudenosaunee Nations in New York and the Meskwaki Nation in Iowa, and extends to the Atlantic coast, including at the southeastern end the Pamunkey Indian Tribe and on the northeastern end the Aroostook Band of Micmac Indians, Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians, Passamaquoddy Tribe and Penobscot Tribe.
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