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1. Building Relationships of Mutual Respect
Guidelines for Collaboration, The School for Advanced Research
Guidelines (video and text)
Truth & Reconciliation Report and Recommendations, Canadian Federation of Library Associations
Report and recommendations (text)
Devon Murphy, “Guidelines on Working with Indigenous Partners and Information”
Guidelines (text)
Jamila Ghaddar and Nadia Caidi, "Indigenous Knowledge in a Post-Apology Era: Steps Toward Healing and Bridge Building"
Article (text)
2. Striving for Balance in Content and Perspectives
Gilman, "From Marginalization to Accessibility: Classification of Indigenous Materials. Faculty Scholarship"
Article (text)
4. Culturally Sensitive Materials
Traditional Knowledge labels
Tool/guidelines (text)
Mukurtu
Tool/guidelines (text)
Newberry Library
Sample policies from repository and guidelines (text)
American Philosophical Society
Sample policies from repository and guidelines (text)
Pitt Rivers
Project website and thesaurus (text)
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Project website and thesaurus (text)
Ngā Upoku Tukutuku, Māori Subject Headings Project, jointly sponsored by LIANZA, Te Rōpū Whakahau, and the New Zealand National Library
Project website and thesaurus (text)
X̱wi7x̱wa Library and Deer Classification System
Website and thesaurus (text)
Doyle, Ann M.; Lawson, Kimberley; Dupont, Sarah, "Indigenization of Knowledge Organization at the Xwi7xwa Library"
Article (text)
Worth, Sydney, “This Library Takes an Indigenous Approach to Categorizing Books”
Article (text)
Christine Bone, “Modifications to the Library of Congress Subject Headings for use by
Manitoba archives”
Article (text)
American Philosophical Society CNAIR Guide to the Indigenous Material
Guide to collections (text)
Lau Ā Lau Ka ʻIke, World Indigenous Nations University Hawaii Pasifika
Project website and thesaurus (text)
Indigenous Subject Headings Modifications at Red River College Presentation Video and Text
Presentation (video and text)
First Nations, Métis, and Inuit – Indigenous Ontology
Project website and thesaurus (text)
American Indian Library Association, Subject Access and Classification Committee Wiki
Project website (text)
Decolonizing Classification and Indigenizing Description Presentations from Sorting Libraries Out Symposium 2019
Presentations (video and text)
Hoffman, Nadine, "Controlled Vocabulary and Indigenous Terminology in Canadian Arctic Legal Research"
Article (text)
Decolonizing Cataloging and Classification
Presentation (text)
Karen Smith-Yoshimura, "Strategies for alternate subject headings and maintaining subject headings"
Article (text)
Vaughan, "The Language of Cataloguing: Deconstructing and Decolonizing Systems of Organization in Libraries"
Article (text)
Hollie C. White, "Decolonizing the Way Libraries Organize"
Article (text)
Deborah Lee, "Indigenous Knowledge Organization: a study of concepts, terminology, structure and (mostly) Indigenous voices"
Article (text)
University of Alberta’s Decolonizing Description project
Presentation (text)
Pop-up from South Australian Museum online database
Sample of prefatory text and website (text)
6. Native American Intellectual Property Issues
Trevor Reed, “Who Owns Our Ancestors’ Voices?”
Article (text)
Jane Anderson and Kimberly Christen, “Decolonizing Attribution”
Article (text)
Traditional Knowledge licenses
Tool (text)
7. Copying and Repatriation of Records to Native American Communities
8. Native American Research Protocols
9. Reciprocal Education and Training
Museum Decolonization Institute
Website (text)
Hawaiʻi Museums Association Cultural Competency webinars
Presentations (video and text)
10. Awareness of Native American Communities and Issues
K. Webster, Ann M. Doyle, "Don't class me in antiquities! : giving voice to Native American materials"
Article (text)
Digital Atlas of Native American Intellectual Traditions
Project website (text)