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Local Contexts: Supporting Indigenous Rights

and Interests in Data and Collections

Presented by Local Contexts team:

Dr. Janette Hamilton Pearce (Te Whānau-Ā-Āpanui, University of Waikato)

Felicia Garcia (Samala Chumash, New York University)

Corrie Roe (New York University)

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Western University Libraries & Indigenous Initiatives

10 May 2022 (EDT)

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Slide 1: Title slide

Local Contexts: Supporting Indigenous Rights and Interests in Data and Collections. By ENRICH and Local Contexts: Dr. Janette Hamilton-Pearce, Te Whānau-Ā-Āpanui, University of Waikato. Felicia Garcia, Samala Chumash, New York University. Corrie Roe, New York University. Tuesday 10 May 2022 (EDT).

Slide 2: Overview

Overview: 1. Introductions. 2. Background: From IP to Licenses to Labels. 3. TK Labels and examples. 4. BC Labels and examples. 4. Notices and examples. 5. Local Contexts Hub Demonstration. 6. Questions and answers.

Slide 3: Dr. Janette Hamilton-Pearce

Composite of several photos. Screenshot from Google Maps showing part of the North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand. Dotted lines point to what are today known as: Auckland, Hamilton, and Pahaoa Marae. Photo of Pahaoa marae, a meeting house. Photo of Janette’s family — her husband, granddaughter, mother, and daughter — sitting outside. Photo of Janette’s dissertation cover, “Mana Wāhine In Information Technology: Ngā Kaiwhatu Kākahu Me Te Kākahu. Janette Hamilton-Pearce. Te Whānau-ā-Apanui, Ngāti Kahungunu, Tūwharetoa. 2009.” Te Kotahi Research Institute logo, an illustration of a feather in red and black. The Local Contexts logo, a ring made of dots in green, blue, and orange.

Slide 3: Find Aotearoa New Zealand Iwi by Map

Janette’s doctoral thesis: Wāhine In Information Technology
Where Janette works: Te Kotahi Research Institute and Local Contexts

Janette is from Te Whānau-Ā-Āpanui iwi on the East Coast of the North island of Aotearoa New Zealand. Her marae is Pahaoa, which is a meeting house for the iwi to gather. Here is her mother June, husband Grant, daughter Atareta and granddaughter Amaia where they are building a new home on their ancestral homelands. In 2009, she got her doctorate from Auckland University of Technology on Mana Wāhine in Information Technology. She works for the Te Kotahi Research Institution at the University of Waikato on the homelands of the Waikato-Tainui iwi as the Local Contexts Programme Lead.

Slide 4: Felicia Garcia

Composite of three photos: Photo of Santa Fe winter landscape, rolling hills dotted with juniper and a thin layer of snow on the ground. Photo of Grass Mountain with patches of California poppies near the top. Photo of Felicia Garcia in her NYU graduation cap and gown with her mother and grandmother taken in Central Park. In the top right, The Local Contexts logo, a ring made of dots in green, blue, and orange.

Slide 4: Felicia Garcia, a member of the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians (Samala Chumash), is the Local Contexts Community Outreach Manager. In her role, she supports Indigenous communities' use of the Traditional Knowledge and Biocultural Labels as well as access to the newly launched Local Contexts Hub. Felicia earned her BA in Psychology at Willamette University and her MA in Museum Studies at New York University. Her master’s thesis focused on the need for Indigenous land acknowledgements in United States museums and led to the development of a guide to land acknowledgements for cultural institutions (http://landacknowledgements.org/).

Slide 5: Corrie Roe

Composite of two photos and a screenshot: Corrie and her partner stand on leaves-covered grass, in front of trees. Her partner holds their dog, a bulldog mix wearing an orange shirt with his tongue sticking out. Screenshot from Native-Land.ca showing a map with Indigenous lands represented by different colored, overlapping areas. Dotted lines point to what are today known as: New York City, western Connecticut, northern Vermont, and eastern Connecticut. Landscape photo of winter woods, bare trees with snow on the ground. The Local Contexts logo, a ring made of dots in orange, teal, and blue next to “Local Contexts”.

Slide 5: Find out whose land you are on at Native-Land.ca.

Museums are consistently ranked among the most trusted institutions, as in this report from the American Alliance of Museums.

Learn more about “Museums Are Not Neutral” on their website.

Corrie (she/her) is a settler who has lived in the northeast of what is today known as the United States. She studied at the University of Vermont for her undergraduate degree and at New York University for her graduate degree in Museum Studies. She lives on the homelands of the Paugussett and Wappinger Nations, outside of New York City. As the Local Contexts Institution Outreach Manager, she supports institutional staff and researchers to use the Local Contexts system of Notices and Labels.

Slide 6: Local Contexts: Background and Co-Directors

Headshots of the four co-directors in a row with their name and titles below: “Jane Anderson, New York University. Kim Christen, Washington State University. Māui Hudson, Whakatōhea Nation, University of Waikato. James Francis, Sr., Penobscot Nation, Tribal Historian.”

Slide 6: Local Contexts website: www.localcontexts.org 

Slide 7: Local Contexts team

Screenshot from a Zoom meeting showing the Local Contexts team.

Slide 7: More about the team on our website.

Slide 8: Problems in Data and Information Systems

Simple illustration of book spines above text: “Every Indigenous community has enormous collections of tangible and intangible cultural material, knowledge, and data, held in archives, museums, libraries, repositories, and other online databases.” Green question mark above text: “Significant information about these collections, including individual and community names and proper provenance information, is missing.” Illustration of stick figures of four people touching hands above text: “Indigenous communities are largely not the legal rights holders.” Illustration of a magnifying glass with a jagged line in the lens above text: “There are more researchers working and collecting data and samples from Indigenous communities than ever before.” Simple illustration of paper perpendicular to a horizontal rectangle above text: “Issues of ownership, as well as the incomplete and significant mistakes in the metadata, continue into the digital lives of this material.”

Slide 9: From IP to Licenses to Labels

Copyright icon, a “C” in a circle, and a trademark icon, a capital “R” in a circle, above an orange arrow pointing to the right with “Traditional IP”. Creative Commons icon, “CC” in a circle, above an orange arrow pointing to the right with “Creative Commons”. Local Contexts TK Attribution Label, a black label icon with two white arrows pointing in opposite directions, and Local Contexts BC Provenance Label, a black label icon with seven vertical, white, hand-drawn lines that get bigger from left to right. Below, an orange arrow with “TK & BC Labels”. “From ownership to control to establishing Indigenous cultural authority.”

Slide 10: TK Labels

Screenshot from the Local Contexts website “TK Labels” page with 12 TK Label icons and their titles arranged in a grid: TK Attribution, TK Clan, TK Family, TK Multiple Communities, TK Outreach, TK Non-Verified, TK Verified, TK Non-Commercial, TK Commercial, TK Culturally Sensitive, TK Community Voice, and TK Community Use Only.

Slide 10: TK Labels on the Local Contexts website

Slide 11: What do the TK and BC Labels communicate?

Table showing the icons of the 20 TK Labels and 10 BC Labels. The first row is labeled “Provenance” and has 6 TK Labels and 3 BC Labels. The second row is labeled “Protocols” and has 9 TK Labels and 2 BC Labels. The third row is labeled “Permissions” and has 5 TK Labels and 5 BC Labels.

Slide 12: TK Label customization

Screenshot of three TK Labels from the Local Contexts website showing the icon next to titles and text. The TK Attribution and TK Culturally Sensitive Labels are on the left and the TK Outreach Label is on the right.

Slide 13: Sq’éwlets Labels

Screenshot from the Sq’éwlets website showing their Traditional Knowledge Label: Attribution as a pop-up. There is a map showing the location of traditional Sq’éwlet in the bottom left corner of the slide.

Slide 13: Visit the Sq’éwlets website.

Slide 14: Sq’éwlets Labels

Screenshot from the Sq’éwlets website showing a page “Traditional Knowledge Labels.” Two images featuring Sq’éwlets community members are at the top of the page. Below is a paragraph with more information about the TK Labels. To the right of the text is a button to play an audio recording of the customized TK Attribution Label in the traditional Sq’éwlets language.

Slide 14: Traditional Knowledge Labels on the Sq’éwlets website.

Slide 15: Sq’éwlets Labels

Screenshot from the Sq’éwlets website showing a thumbnail of a video and the TK Family Label as a pop-up.

Slide 16: Video about Passamaquoddy Labels

Embedded clip from video. Visit the link for the full-length, captioned video.

Slide 16: Watch the full-length, captioned Local Contexts video on Vimeo.

Slide 17: Passamaquoddy Labels

Historic photo of a group of people gathered around a recording device.

Slide 18: Passamaquoddy Labels

Screenshot of the Library of Congress Online Catalog showing the entry for “Passamaquoddy War Song” before the TK Labels were added.

Slide 19: Passamaquoddy Labels

Screenshot of the Library of Congress Online Catalog showing the updated entry for “Passamaquoddy War Song; Trading song” after the Labels were added.

Slide 19: Catalog entry page of one of the Passamaquoddy wax cylinders in the Library of Congress online database.

Slide 20: Transforming Rights Recognition

Screenshot showing “Rights Advisory” of a catalog entry. Listed under the Rights Advisory heading are the description of three Traditional Knowledge Labels.

Slide 21: Transforming the MARC record

Screenshot of metadata with stars next to: “Traditional Knowledge Label: Attribution - Elihtasik (How it is done). Traditional Knowledge Label: Outreach - Ekehkimkewey (Educational). Traditional Knowledge Label: Non-Commercial - Ma yut monuwasiw (This is not sold).”

Slide 22: Transforming Digital Infrastructure

Screenshot of metadata. Highlighted is “traditional_knowledge_labels”.

Slide 23: Whakatōhea Te Ihi Ka Roa

Digitech logo, a purple triangle with three curved lines with “Te Ihi Ka Roa. Digitech.” Flier for “Whakatōhea Traditional Knowledge Labels Wānanga.” Text on a dark blue background, QR code, and a photo of six people smiling.

Slide 23: Visit the Whakatōhea Maori Trust Board website, Whakatōhea Pre-Settlement Claims Trust website, and Whakatōhea Te Ihi Ka Roa Facebook page.

Slide 24: Whakatōhea TK Labels

Photo of a pamphlet titled “Proposed Historical Account for the Whakatōhea Treaty Settlement 2021.” A photo of a pile of papers and people touching them. A group photo of 10 people at a conference table with papers. Two screenshots from the Whakarōhea Waiata app: The first shows a black screen with a white illustration and the title “Whakarōhea Waiata”. The second shows four titles, “Ingoa,” “Momo,” “Take,” and “Kaupapa”.

Slide 25: Whakatōhea Peer to Peer Learning

Screenshot of a YouTube video titled “Whakatōhea Traditional Knowledge Labels.” Five members of the Digitech team sit at a table, facing the camera.

Slide 25: Watch the Whakatōhea Traditional Knowledges Labels presentation on YouTube.

Slide 26: BC Labels

Screenshot of the “BC Labels” page on the Local Contexts website with six BC Label icons and titles in a row: BC Research Use Label icon, a black label icon with two concentric circles with four rectangles within. On the left side of the Label are three dots. BC Provenance Label icon, a black label icon with seven white vertical, hand-drawn lines that get bigger from left to right. On the left side of the Label are three dots. BC Outreach Label icon, a black label icon with a white hand illustration with two dots above each finger. On the left side of the Label are three dots. BC Non-Commercial icon, a black label icon with a crossed out dollar sign in white. On the left side of the Label are three dots. BC Non-Commercial icon, a black label icon with a dollar sign in white. On the left side of the Label are three dots.

Slide 26: Biocultural Labels page on the Local Contexts website.

Slide 27: Whakatōhea Labels

“Maruhia atu. Introducing Whakatōhea connections to Te-Moana-a-Toi (Bay of Plenty, NZ) through pātere.” Two photos: A pile of mollusks and a commercial fishing boat. 9 Label icons in a row: TK Attribution, TK Verified, TK Community Use Only, BC Provenance, BC Verified, BC Research Use, BC Open to Collaborate, BC Open to Commercialization, and BC Multiple Communities. Screenshot of two maps, one showing a coastline of the Bay of Plenty with blue dots and the second showing the same coastline topographically.

Slide 28: Local Contexts Notices

“Local Contexts Notices: Disclosure of Indigenous Rights and Interests.”

Slide 28: The Notices page on the Local Contexts website.

Slide 29: Local Contexts Notices

“Local Contexts Notices” with four of the Notice icons. Below “Engagement Notices” are the Open to Collaborate Notice icon, a black square with two outstretched hands facing each other in white, and the Attribution Incomplete Notice icon, a black square with a square in white. Half of outline of the square is solid and the other half is made of dots. Below “Disclosure Notices are the Traditional Knowledge Notice icon, a black square with “TK” in white, and the Biocultural Notice icon, a black square with “BC” in white.

Slide 29: Page for each of the Notices on the Local Contexts website: Open to Collaborate, Attribution Incomplete, Traditional Knowledge (TK), and Biocultural (BC) Notice.

Slide 30: Notices on Historical / Cultural Collections: American Philosophical Society

Composition of two screenshots from the “American Philosophical Society Center for Native American and Indigenous Research.” In the background, a handwritten sepia map. On top, a screenshot showing the Open to Collaborate icon, a black square with two outstretched hands facing each other in white. To the left is text, “Open to Collaborate. CNAIR is committed to the development of new modes of collaboration, engagement, and partnership with Indigenous peoples for the care and stewardship of past and future heritage collections.”

Slide 30: Center for Native American and Indigenous Research website.

Slide 31: New York State Museum Native American Ethnography

Composite of two screenshots of the “New York State Museum Native American Ethnography” website. In the bottom right is the Open to Collaborate icon, a black square with two outstretched hands facing each other in white. An arrow points from the icon to the description, the second screenshot. On top, the Open to Collaborate icon, a black square with two outstretched hands facing each other in white. Below is the Notice text, “The New York State Museum is committed to the development of new modes of collaboration, engagement, and partnership with Indigenous peoples for the care and stewardship of past and future heritage collections. See Local Contexts for more information.”

Slide 31: New York State Museum Native American Ethnography website.

Slide 32: Simon Fraser University Library

Composite of two screenshots from the Simon Fraser University Digitized Collections website. “The George and Joanne MacDonald Northwest Coast Image Archive” headline is above a photo showing part of a monumental carving. The second screenshot shows “Open to Collaborate” above the Open to Collaborate Notice icon, a black square with two outstretched hands facing each other in white. Below is the Notice text, “Our institution is committed to the development of new modes of collaboration, engagement, and partnership with Indigenous peoples for the care and stewardship of past and future heritage collections.”

Slide 32: Simon Fraser University Northwest Coast Image Archive website.

Slide 33: Abbe Museum

Composite of two screenshots from the Abbe Museum online catalog. A photo of a rectangle woven basket is next to its “object record,” information in different categories. The second screenshot shows the Open to Collaborate icon, a black square with two outstretched hands facing each other in white, and the Attribution Incomplete icon, a black square with a square in white.

Slide 33: Abbe Museum online database website. This particular entry is for Basket (1897B).

Slide 34: Notices in Scientific Databases: GEOME

Screenshot of the GEOME website. The Local Contexts Open to Collaborate Notice is at the bottom. An arrow points from the Notice icon to a pop-up box with text: “Open to Collaborate. GEOME is committed to the development of new modes of collaboration, engagement, and partnership with Indigenous peoples for the care and stewardship of past and future heritage collections. See Local Contexts for more information. Close.”

Slide 34: Genomic Observatories MetaDatabase, or GEOME, website.

Slide 35: Notices in GEOME

Screenshot from GEOME website showing part of a form with various checkboxes. Two circles are around a checkbox labeled “Traditional Knowledge Notice” and the definition of the TK Notice.

Slide 36: Notice on genome sequence

Screenshot of GDV website showing the entry for “Vaccinium myrtillus isolate NK2018 v1.0 genome sequence.” The BC Notice icon, a black square with “BC” written in white, is prominent in the center.

Slide 36: Genetic sequence with BC Notice on GDV website.

Slide 37: Hub Demonstration

Screenshot of the Local Contexts Hub showing pictures next to accounts labeled “Sample Community,” “Southwest Community,” “Museum of Science,” and “Sample Institution.”

Slide 37: Hub page on the Local Contexts website. Join the Hub: www.localcontextshub.org.

Slide 38: Contact

“Thank you! Any questions? Dr. Janette Hamilton-Pearce, support@localcontexts.org. Join our ENRICH working groups, Cultural Institution Working Group, Indigenous Community Working Group. Follow us on social media. @LocalContexts on Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn. @ LocalContextsOrg on Facebook.”

Slide 38: Email the Local Contexts team: support@localcontexts.org 

Email support@localcontexts.org to join our working groups — learn more about ENRICH on the website for the Cultural Institution Working Group and more on Facebook for the Indigenous Community Working Group.

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