Melissa K Nelson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3810906 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melissa K Nelson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melissa K |
| FAMILY NAME | Nelson |
| SIGNATURE | NELSON M K |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Francisco State University |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-4048-2229 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The honorable harvest of Indigenous data
This commentary invites readers into a thought experiment to help decolonize thinking and gain insight into Indigenous research paradigms. It uses Anishinaabeg language and concepts such as the “honorable harvest,” and the “grammar of animacy,” to re-frame the way people can approach and think about knowledge production and data collecting. Through examples of relationship building and engaging in cultural protocols, this commentary offers ways t…
Indigenous research sovereignties
This editors’ introduction seeks to spark a conversation and further debate through the 14 papers and 3 commentaries comprising this special issue entitled “Indigenous Research Sovereignty.” By inviting the authors to publish in this special edition and address Indigenous Research Sovereignty from a variety of viewpoints, we have brought together a collection that inspires, transforms, and expands on the ways in which Indigenous and non-Indigenou…
Placing diverse knowledge systems at the core of transformative climate research
We argue that solutions-based research must avoid treating climate change as a merely technical problem, recognizing instead that it is symptomatic of the history of European and North American colonialism. It must therefore be addressed by decolonizing the research process and transforming relations between scientific expertise and the knowledge systems of Indigenous Peoples and of local communities. Partnership across diverse knowledge systems …
Wrestling with Fire
Indigenous activist movements are often articulated through the concepts of struggle, resistance, and resurgence. Indigenous women activists often tie these concepts to vocabularies of responsibility and obligation. Nelson examines the root meanings, contested uses, and pragmatic roles of struggle and resistance in Indigenous women’s activism, including her own experiences as a Native woman and scholar-activist. She articulates this struggle thro…
Traditional Ecological Knowledge
This book examines the importance of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and how it can provide models for a time-tested form of sustainability needed in the world today. The essays, written by a team of scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, explore TEK through compelling cases of environmental sustainability from multiple tribal and geographic locations in North America and beyond. Addressing the philosophical issues concerning indi…
Getting Dirty
The Future of Native Studies
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Melissa Nelson; The Future of Native Studies: A Modest Manifesto. American Indian Culture and Research Journal 1 January 2011; 35 (1): 39–45. doi: https://doi.org/10.17953/aicr.35.1.17252383u4r55442 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Re…
Convergence and Conflict
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Melissa Nelson; Convergence and Conflict: An Abstract. American Indian Culture and Research Journal 1 January 2011; 35 (1): 99–100. doi: https://doi.org/10.17953/aicr.35.1.w75m3v0373398435 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Ma…
More Than One Mask
INTRODUCTION\nThe Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) has fundamentally changed the relationship between museums and tribal peoples. Since 1990, thousands of human remains and funerary objects and hundreds of sacred objects and objects of cultural patrimony have been repatriated to tribes. Human remains and funerary objects have been reburied, and sacred objects and objects of cultural patrimony have been returned to t…
Placing diverse knowledge systems at the core of transformative climate research
We argue that solutions-based research must avoid treating climate change as a merely technical problem, recognizing instead that it is symptomatic of the history of European and North American colonialism. It must therefore be addressed by decolonizing the research process and transforming relations between scientific expertise and the knowledge systems of Indigenous Peoples and of local communities. Partnership across diverse knowledge systems …
More Than One Mask
INTRODUCTION\nThe Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) has fundamentally changed the relationship between museums and tribal peoples. Since 1990, thousands of human remains and funerary objects and hundreds of sacred objects and objects of cultural patrimony have been repatriated to tribes. Human remains and funerary objects have been reburied, and sacred objects and objects of cultural patrimony have been returned to t…
The Future of Native Studies
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Melissa Nelson; The Future of Native Studies: A Modest Manifesto. American Indian Culture and Research Journal 1 January 2011; 35 (1): 39–45. doi: https://doi.org/10.17953/aicr.35.1.17252383u4r55442 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Re…
Convergence and Conflict
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Melissa Nelson; Convergence and Conflict: An Abstract. American Indian Culture and Research Journal 1 January 2011; 35 (1): 99–100. doi: https://doi.org/10.17953/aicr.35.1.w75m3v0373398435 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Ma…
Getting Dirty
Traditional Ecological Knowledge
This book examines the importance of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and how it can provide models for a time-tested form of sustainability needed in the world today. The essays, written by a team of scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, explore TEK through compelling cases of environmental sustainability from multiple tribal and geographic locations in North America and beyond. Addressing the philosophical issues concerning indi…
Wrestling with Fire
Indigenous activist movements are often articulated through the concepts of struggle, resistance, and resurgence. Indigenous women activists often tie these concepts to vocabularies of responsibility and obligation. Nelson examines the root meanings, contested uses, and pragmatic roles of struggle and resistance in Indigenous women’s activism, including her own experiences as a Native woman and scholar-activist. She articulates this struggle thro…
The honorable harvest of Indigenous data
This commentary invites readers into a thought experiment to help decolonize thinking and gain insight into Indigenous research paradigms. It uses Anishinaabeg language and concepts such as the “honorable harvest,” and the “grammar of animacy,” to re-frame the way people can approach and think about knowledge production and data collecting. Through examples of relationship building and engaging in cultural protocols, this commentary offers ways t…
Indigenous research sovereignties
This editors’ introduction seeks to spark a conversation and further debate through the 14 papers and 3 commentaries comprising this special issue entitled “Indigenous Research Sovereignty.” By inviting the authors to publish in this special edition and address Indigenous Research Sovereignty from a variety of viewpoints, we have brought together a collection that inspires, transforms, and expands on the ways in which Indigenous and non-Indigenou…
Placing diverse knowledge systems at the core of transformative climate research
We argue that solutions-based research must avoid treating climate change as a merely technical problem, recognizing instead that it is symptomatic of the history of European and North American colonialism. It must therefore be addressed by decolonizing the research process and transforming relations between scientific expertise and the knowledge systems of Indigenous Peoples and of local communities. Partnership across diverse knowledge systems …
Computer Science (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Indigenous (4 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (3 works) · Citation (2 works)