Indigenous Archives: Opportunities for Archival Access in an Information Society

Indigenous Archives: Opportunities of Archival Access in an Information

Society

Teague Schneiter

IsumaTV

Isuma.tv

Igloolik, Nunavut, Northern Canada

Potential clashes

• accepted notions of intellectual property rights versus notions of ownership that are less focused on individual creator

• dilemmas about making recordings of ceremonies available for research in mainstream institutions versus keeping content secret or sacred for community use

• clashes between institutions managing collections that pertain to indigenous people versus indigenous self-management or sovereignty

Some interesting Indigenous Archives and Software Initiatives:

• Mukurtu Wumpurrarni-kari Archive: www.mukurtuarchive.org

• Plateau People’s Web Portal:www.plateauportal.wsulibs.wsu.edu

• Ara Irititja:www.irititja.com

• Digitizing the Inuit and Aboriginal Media Archive:www.isuma.tv/diama

Thank you!

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