Publications

Karuk Tribe – UC Berkeley Collaborative. (2023). Karuk Agroecosystem Resilience and Cultural Foods and Fibers Revitalization Initiative: xúus nu’éethti – we are caring for it. Karuk Aboriginal Territory. Karuk Tribe – UC Berkeley Collaborative. Berkeley, CA: University of California at Berkeley, and Orleans, CA: Karuk Department of Natural Resources. Download

Mucioki, M., Sowerwine, J., Sarna-Wojcicki, D., McCovey, K., and Bourque, S.D. (2022). Understanding the conservation challenges and needs of culturally significant plant species through Indigenous Knowledge and species distribution models. Journal for Nature Conservation, 70. Download

Mucioki, M., Hoover, E., Sowerwine, J, Intertribal Agriculture Council, Johnson-Reyes, K., Cornelius, D., Redhouse, L. (2022). Native American agriculture and food systems: challenges and opportunities presented by the COVID-19 pandemic.  Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 11(3), 121–137. Download

Mucioki, M., Sowerwine, J., Sarna-Wojcicki, D., Lake, F.K., and Bourque, S. (2021). Conceptualizing Indigenous Cultural Ecosystem Services (ICES) and benefits under changing climate conditions in the Klamath River Basin and their implications for land management and governance. Journal of Ethnobiology, 41(3): 313-330. https://doi.org/10.2993/0278-0771-41.3.313

Sowerwine, J., Sarna-Wojcicki D., Mucioki M., Hillman, L., Lake, F.K., and E. Friedman. (2019) Enhancing Indigenous food sovereignty: A five-year collaborative tribal-university research and extension project in California and Oregon. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development. Download.

Marks-Block, T., Lake, F., Curran, L. (2019) Effects of understory fire management treatments on California Hazelnut, an ecocultural resource of the Karuk and Yurok Indians in the Pacific Northwest. Forest Ecology and Management. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2019.117517

Policy Brief: Restoring Access to Native Foods Can Reduce Tribal Food Insecurity. Sowerwine, J., Mucioki, M., Hillman, L., Sarna-Wojcicki, D. (2019). Berkeley, CA: University of California at Berkeley. Download.

Report cover collage of images including box of crabs, man in Karuk hat skinning deer carcass, two hands filling traditional basket with huckleberries, handpainted sign reading Chiloquin Community Garden, three children operating a large apple press, three children gluing plant specimens to paper.

Sowerwine, J., Mucioki, M., Sarna-Wojcicki, D., Hillman, L. (2019). Reframing food security by and for Native American communities: a case study among tribes in the Klamath River basin of Oregon and California. Food Security. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-019-00925-y Author’s Accepted Manuscript available here.

Sowerwine, J., Mucioki, M., Friedman, E., Hillman, L., and Sarna-Wojcicki, D. (2019). Food Security Assessment of Native American Communities in the Klamath Basin with the Karuk Tribe, Klamath Tribes, Yurok Tribe, and Hoopa Tribe. Karuk-UC Berkeley Collaborative. Berkeley, CA: University of California at Berkeley. Download.

Karuk Tribe and University of California at Berkeley (2019). Klamath Basin Food System Assessment: Karuk Tribe Data. Karuk-UC Berkeley Collaborative. Berkeley, CA: University of California at Berkeley. Download.

Klamath Tribes and University of California at Berkeley (2019). Klamath Basin Food System Assessment: Klamath Tribes Data. Karuk-UC Berkeley Collaborative. Berkeley, CA: University of California at Berkeley. Download.

Yurok Tribe and University of California at Berkeley (2019). Klamath Basin Food System Assessment: Yurok Tribe Data. Karuk-UC Berkeley Collaborative. Berkeley, CA: University of California at Berkeley. Download.

Sarna-Wojcicki, D., Sowerwine, J., Hillman, L., Hillman, L., & Tripp, B. (2019). Decentering Watersheds and Decolonising Watershed Governance: Towards an Ecocultural Politics of Scale in the Klamath Basin. Water Alternatives12(1), 241-266.

Kim, K., Ngo, V., Gilkison, G., Hillman, L., Sowerwine, J., Karuk Youth Leaders (2019). Native American Youth Citizen Scientists Uncovering Community Health and Food Security Priorities. Health Promotion Practice, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1524839919852098

Policy Brief: Integrating Traditional and Local Foods into the Tribal Commodities Program. Mucioki, M., Sowerwine, J., Sarna-Wojcicki, D. and the Karuk Tribe (2019). Berkeley, CA: University of California at Berkeley. Download.

Mucioki, M., Sowerwine, J., and Sarna-Wojcicki, D. (2018) Thinking inside and outside the box: local and national considerations of the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR). Journal of Rural Studies Vol. 57: 88-98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2017.11.002

Karuk Tribe, Lisa Hillman, Leaf Hillman, Adrienne R. S. Harling, Bari Talley & Angela McLaughlin (2017) Building Sípnuuk: A Digital Library, Archives, and Museum for Indigenous Peoples. Collection Management, 42:3-4, 294-316, DOI: 10.1080/01462679.2017.1331870

Diver, S. 2017.Visual Timeline Techniquein Design as Democracy: Techniques for Collective Creativity. Edited by David de la Pena, Diane Jones Allen, Randolph T. Hester, Jeffrey Hou, Laura J. Lawson, and Marcia J. McNally. Island Press: Washington, DC.  https://islandpress.org/book/design-as-democracy

Diver, S. 2016. Co-management as a catalyst: Pathways to post-colonial forestry in the Klamath Basin, California. Human Ecology  44(5):  533–546.

Diver, S.W. and Higgins, M.N. 2014. Giving Back Through Collaborative Research: Towards a Practice of Dynamic Reciprocity. Journal of Research Practice. 10(2).

Diver, S.W. 2014. Giving Back Through Time: A Collaborative Timeline Approach to Researching Karuk Indigenous Lands Management History. Journal of Research Practice. 10(2).

Lake, Frank K., William Tripp, and Ron Reed. “The Karuk Tribe, planetary stewardship, and world renewal on the middle Klamath River, California.” Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 91: 147-149 91 (2010): 147-149.

Diver, S., Liu, L., Canchela, N., Tannenbaum, S., Silberblatt, R., and Reed, R.  Karuk Lands Management Historical Timeline. May 7, 2010.  Web published at http://karuktimeline.wordpress.com.  Currently exhibited at the Karuk People’s Center (Happy Camp, CA).  Previously exhibited at the Clark Museum of Anthropology (Eureka, CA).