Winds of Change: Seeking, Preserving, and Retelling Indigenous Knowledge Through Self-Organized Online Communities

Kotut, Lindah; McCrickard, D. Scott

doi:10.1145/3491102.3502094

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“…11 These are concerns that cultural heritage institutions have to focus more on. 12 presented the challenges that indigenous community members specifically face as they seek to interact and preserve their indigenous knowledge. This includes the challenge introduced by geographical distance, language fluency and the presence or lack of participation by key members of the community.…”

Section: 'Very Few Safeguards Exist To Protect Indigenous Knowledge H...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Indigenous knowledge preservation as a sign of respect for culture: concerns of libraries, archives and museums

Oyelude

2023

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Indigenous or traditional knowledge (IK) holders face a lack of respect and appreciation for such knowledge. Respect for culture means following protocols, accepting diversity and recognizing indigenous cultures as living and continuously evolving. This is a 'hot topic', and the central goal of this article is to advance understandings to allow cultural memory institutions (libraries, archives and museums) to respect, affirm and recognize indigenous ownership of their traditional and living indigenous knowledges and to respect the protocols for their use. The various ways of managing and preserving indigenous knowledge, especially using new technologies in the digital era, will be explored and ideas on how to respect the indigenous culture, even in the process of documenting or preserving in academic libraries, will be outlined. Libraries involved in IK preservation will be encouraged to develop protocols by collaborating with each other and engaging the community, to preserve each unique culture in a respectful manner. Intellectual property rights of knowledge holders, respect for these rights and procedures to adopt will be described. Activities undertaken to preserve indigenous knowledge are assessed and suggestions made on how library and information science professionals could more efficiently handle indigenous knowledge preservation as respect for culture. Indigenous knowledge preservationas a sign of respect for culture: concerns of libraries, archives and museums Keywords indigenous knowledge; indigenous knowledge preservation; cultural heritage; libraries; archives; museums 'In one of the great tragedies of our age, indigenous traditions, stories, cultures and knowledge are winking out across the world. Whole languages and mythologies are vanishing, and in some cases, even entire indigenous groups are falling into extinction.' 1

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Section: 'Very Few Safeguards Exist To Protect Indigenous Knowledge H...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The variation in accounts from generation to generation is reflected in the case of the Kalenjin of Kenya as reported by Kotut and McCrickard. 15 The younger generation narrate the stories differently from the very old members of the community within the same culture.…”

Section: The Concerns Of Libraries Archives and Museums (Lams)mentioning

confidence: 99%