Articles
“East Mojave’s Threatened Habitat,” Terrain Magazine, July 1995.
“An Extreme and Solemn Relationship,” Terrain Magazine, Winter 1995.
“Contested Territory,” Terrain Magazine, August 1996.
“Robert Stebbins: Interview with a Desert Patriarch,” Pacific Discovery, 1996.
“An Extreme and Solemn Relationship with the Land,” Shaman’s Drum, 1996.
“The Last Ancient Path: The Struggle to Save Headwaters,” Terrain Magazine, December 1996.
“Desert Tortoise vs. Nuclear Dump,” Wild Earth, Spring 1997
“Native Americans and Environmentalists Battle Proposed Radioactive Waste Dump at Ward Valley,” Shaman’s Drum, Spring 1997.
“Twisted science and nuclear politics,” San Francisco Examiner, June 1997.
“U. S. in Kyoto: Too little, too late,” San Francisco Examiner, December 8, 1997.
“USDA proposal an ‘organic’ swindle,” San Francisco Examiner, March 29, 1998.
“Indians join the Ward Valley protest,” San Francisco Examiner, May 18, 1998.
“How ‘Atoms for Peace’ became The Waste Train,” San Francisco Examiner, July 22, 1998.
“Nuclear Waste on Indian Land,” Shaman’s Drum, Summer 1998.
“The Song of the Land,” News from Native California, Fall 1998.
“Ward Valley: Saving a Storyscape,” Terrain Magazine, Fall 1998.
“The nuclear chain,” Orion Afield, Winter 1998.
“Ward Valley: Sacred Homeland or Nuclear Waste Dump,” Satya, April 1999.
“Cross-border cooperation: Activists work to stop nuclear dumps,” Earth Island Journal, Summer 1999.
“Storyscapes of Silyaye Aheace,” Earth First! Journal, June-July 1999.
“A Victory in the Making,” Winds of Change, Summer 1999.
“House of Night: the Mojave Creation Songs Return to the Keepers of the River,” News from Native California, Fall 1999.
“A Victory in the Making,” EJ Times: The Environmental Justice Newsletter from Sierra Club, Volume 1, Issue 1. October – December 1999.
“Song of the Land: Weaving Cultural Preservation and Environmental Protection,” Earth First! Journal, September-October 2000.
“Earth Circles: Songs of the Land: Weaving Together Spiritual Tradition, Cultural Preservation and Environmental Protection,” Shaman’s Drum, Number 55, 2000.
“Song of the Land,” YES! Magazine, Fall 2000.
“Awakened Voices,” News from Native California, Fall 2000.
“Storyscape: The power of song in the protection of native lands,” by Philip M. Klasky and Melissa K. Nelson, Orion Afield Magazine, Autumn 2001.
“Storyscapes: living songs in native lands,” by Philip M. Klasky and Melissa K. Nelson, ReVision Magazine, Fall 2002.
“Unbroken Circle,” Earth Island Journal, Spring 2003.
“The Salt Song Trail,” by Philip M. Klasky and Melissa K. Nelson, News from Native California, Fall 2005.
“Language is the Universal Language,” News from Native California, Fall 2006.
“Making it Real: An Engaged Approach for Native American Students in Higher Education,” American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Volume 37, Number 3. 2013
“The Power of the Drum,” News from Native California, Winter, 2014
“The Anatomy of a Successful Grassroots Campaign,” Sierra Club Desert Report, 2016
Graduate Thesis, MA Geography and Human Environmental Studies, SFSU
“An Extreme and Solemn Relationship with the Land: Native American Perspectives and the Proposed Ward Valley Nuclear Waste Dump,” Master’s thesis in Geography and Human Environmental Studies — Resource Management and Environmental Planning, San Francisco State University, June 1997. Can be found at: http://banwaste.envirolink.org , also available through Coyote Press, P.O. Box 3377, Salinas, California 93912, www.coyotepress.com.
Books
Editor and contributor, Conspire: to breathe together, Fire in Lake Productions, anthology of political art to benefit Amnesty International, 1995.
Chapter entitled “Liquor Moccasins” in anthology Cultural Representation and Contestation in Native America, AltaMira Press, Berkeley, 2006, edited by Dr. Andrew Jolivette, SFSU Department of American Indian Studies.
Conferences and Paper Presentations
Paper: “Mojave Song Maps and Cultural Preservation,” California Indian Conference, San Francisco State University, 1996.