The Indigenous Natural Resource Office is a brave cultural space within the Oregon State University College of Forestry where Indigenous students and scholars can honor their Indigenous identities and build community. It provides an Indigenized gathering place where together we can develop relationships and allyships across cultures and respectful, caring, innovative partnerships with the nine Tribal Nations of Oregon, Tribal Nations in the PNW and beyond, and Indigenous people globally. In this office we honor Tribal sovereignty rights. We braid together Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Western science and research to find solutions to humanity’s most pressing natural resource conservation problems.

The Indigenous Natural Resource Office houses the Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) Lab, where we study and explore how multiple ways of knowing can heal our relationship with the Earth and increase climate resilience. We braid together Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Western science and research to find ecocultural restoration solutions to humanity’s most pressing natural resource conservation problems.

Our goal in the Indigenous Natural Resource Office is to help guide people and the institutions with whom we work beyond the land acknowledgement to find ways to support and empower Indigenous peoples and their communities, while advancing social justice. We partner and collaborate with many university offices to support diversity. Please visit us in Richardson Hall 109.