{"id":101,"date":"2024-05-28T16:49:41","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T20:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/indigenousdigitalliteracies\/chapter\/traditional-knowledges-online\/"},"modified":"2024-07-29T13:42:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T17:42:15","slug":"traditional-knowledges-online","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/indigenousdigitalliteracies\/chapter\/traditional-knowledges-online\/","title":{"raw":"Considerations when Bringing Indigenous Traditional Knowledges Online","rendered":"Considerations when Bringing Indigenous Traditional Knowledges Online"},"content":{"raw":"
\"Working to bring Indigeneity to an online platform requires involved contemplation and deep consideration of how best to engage \u2026\"\n\n\u2014Cited from Decolonizing the Digital: How to Bring Indigeneity to Online Spaces | Intercontinental Cry<\/a><\/blockquote>\n

Indigenous Traditional Knowledges<\/h1>\nWe start by understanding that Indigenous Traditional Knowledges have existed for hundreds of years before colonization and are different for each Indigenous community.\n

Indigenous Rights<\/h1>\n
\"Indigenous Peoples have the right to maintain, control, protect and develop their cultural heritage, traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions, as well as the manifestations of their sciences, technologies and cultures, including human and genetic resources, seeds, medicines, knowledge of the properties of fauna and flora, oral traditions, literatures, designs, sports and traditional games and visual and performing arts. They also have the right to maintain, control, protect and develop their intellectual property over such cultural heritage, traditional knowledge, and traditional cultural expressions.\"\n\n\u2014Cited from Indigenous Knowledge and the Question of Copyright (ictinc.ca)<\/a><\/blockquote>\nRemember this guiding principle:\n

Nothing about us, without us.<\/span><\/p>\nHow do we uphold this statement?\n

Follow protocols<\/h3>\nFollow protocols when working with Indigenous Peoples. Protocols are a representation of a culture\u2019s deeply held ethical system. They are a set of guidelines that dictate how to interact with Indigenous Peoples in a way that respects their traditional ways of being.\n\nProtocols recognize the diversity and complexity of the many different Indigenous cultures in B.C. and Canada. Ways of dealing with issues and cultural material may differ from community to community. There are also many different protocols across urban, rural, and remote communities.\n

Build trust and relationships<\/h2>\nBuilding a good relationship with Indigenous Peoples and Nations takes time and commitment. This is the foundation from which you must work. Start with understanding that the relationship is first and foremost and is how trust can start to grow.\n\nStart from a place of transparency, integrity, humbleness, patience, and flexibility. These are the values upon which trust can be built.\n
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Learner notes<\/p>\n\n<\/header>\n

Source and recommended reading: Building a Trust-based Relationship - Province of British Columbia<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Understand the culture, heritage, and belonging<\/h2>\n
\"We belong to the 'property'; it doesn\u2019t belong to us. We (my people\u2014Onkwehonwe) belong to our land, our medicines, our communities, our philosophies, and our way of life. All these elements endure over time; we come and go.\"\n\n\u2014Sheree Bonaparte (Mohawk\/Akwesasne)<\/blockquote>\n
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Learner notes<\/p>\n\n<\/header>\n

Source and recommended reading: Council Support Statement for Archival Repatriation [PDF] - Society of American Archivists<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The community decides<\/h2>\n
\"It has to come from the community themselves\u2014what do they want to be published or come out and be considered in the public domain and what should be kept secret or within the community. Usually the communities have protocol already.\u2026 But the community said that those are sacred knowledge that should not come out. So we did not publish it. Yes the community has a system for determining what is good and not good for them. This is sacred. There is ritual involved here. Outsiders should not know. We all know it is possible to steal so those knowledge stays in the community.\"\n\n\u2014Cited from The Arts of Indigenous online dissent [PDF]<\/a><\/blockquote>\n
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Examples<\/p>\n\n<\/header>\n

\n\nSource and recommended reading: Decolonizing the Digital: How to Bring Indigeneity to Online Spaces | Intercontinental Cry<\/a>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Guiding questions to ask yourself<\/h1>\n