Reconciliation through Description: Using Metadata to Realize the Vision of the National Research Centre for Truth and Reconciliation

PostprintThis articlewill discuss the history and context surrounding the document collection and statement gathering mandates of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and the challenges the newly established National Research Centre for Truth and Reconciliation will face in applying the Commission’s metadata set in the realization of its vision. By working respectfully with Indigenous people through the implementation of Indigenous knowledge best practices and the application of contrasting traditional/nontraditional, archival/user-generated, and institutional/Indigenous descriptive elements, the Centre will attempt to create a “living archive” and facilitate Indigenous participation, collaboration, and ultimately, the process of reconciliation.https://www-tandfonline-com.uwinnipeg.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10.1080/01639374.2015.100871

Introduction: “Indigenous Comics And Graphic Novels: An Annotated Bibliography”

With contributions by Niigaan James Sinclair, Sonya Ballantyne, Jay Odjick, Taylor Daigneault, and Amy Mazowita.   NOTE: This is an introduction to the open access online resource, “Indigenous Comics and Graphic Novels: An Annotated Bibliography,” posted at <http://jeunessejournal.ca/index.php/yptc/resources>.   DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2019.000

Indigenous Comics and Graphic Novels: An Annotated Bibliography

The primary focus of this Annotated Bibliography is comics by self-identified Indigenous creators and publishers working in Canada and the United States, although where possible we have included Indigenous comics from outside North America. We have attempted to include as many titles as possible up until March, 2019, but this will always be an incomplete list and we regret any omissions or oversights. We regard this Annotated Bibliography as a preliminary work and hope it can serve as the basis for more in-depth work in the expanding field of Indigenous Comics and Graphic Novels. For a more extensive guide to comics and graphic novels featuring Indigenous characters and stories (including those by non-Indigenous creators), see the Mazinbiige Indigenous Graphic Novel Collection at the University of Manitoba Library: https://libguides.lib.umanitoba.ca/mazinbiige. For more information about this project, see Introduction: "Indigenous Comics and Graphic Novels: An Annotated Bibliography” in Jeunesse, Volume 11, Issue 1, pp. 139-55 (2019). This resource will be updated twice a year, in July and December. Please send any suggestions for additions or revisions to Candida Rifkind ([email protected]).   DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2019.000

Keynote Address

Speaker bio: Camille Callison is a Tahltan Nation member, a PhD student (Anthropology) and the Indigenous Strategies Librarian at the University of Manitoba. She is from BC, an alumna of TRU (Williams Lake campus) and completed a BA (Anthropology) and M.L.I.S. (First Nations Concentration) at UBC then moved to Winnipeg in 2012 to become the first Indigenous Services Librarian at the University of Manitoba. Camille is a passionate cultural activist who currently serves as the Chair of IFLA Indigenous Matters Section, a member of the NFB Indigenous Advisory Group and a member of Canada’s Steering Committee on Archives – Truth & Reconciliation Commission Taskforce. She has served in many capacities including as a Canadian Federation of Library Associations (CFLA-FCAB) board member; Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Committee then subsequently Chair/Past Chair of Indigenous Matters Committee and as a Copyright Committee member. Camille was also Vice-Chair, Memory of the World Committee, Canadian Commission for UNESCO, that founded Canada’s national program

Indigenous notions of ownership and libraries, archives and museums

The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the information profession. The series IFLA Publications deals with many of the means through which libraries, information centres, and information professionals worldwide can formulate their goals, exert their influence as a group, protect their interests, and find solutions to global problems

Indigenous Notions of Ownership and Libraries, Archives and Museums

Tangible and intangible forms of indigenous knowledges and cultural expressions are often found in libraries, archives or museums. Often the "legal" copyright is not held by the indigenous people's group from which the knowledge or cultural expression originates. Indigenous peoples regard unauthorized use of their cultural expressions as theft and believe that the true expression of that knowledge can only be sustained, transformed, and remain dynamic in its proper cultural context. Readers will begin to understand how to respect and preserve these ways of knowing while appreciating the cultural memory institutions' attempts to transfer the knowledges to the next generation.Part One - Notions of Traditional Knowledge: 1. Who is Indigenous? ; 2. The Embodied LibraryThe Culmination of All Who Came Before ; 3. Anishinaabe Dibendaagoziwin (Ownership) and Ganawenindiwin (Protection) ; 4. How to Integrate Matauranga Maori into a Colonial ViewpointPart Two - Notions of Ownership: 5. The Traditional Knowledge - Intellectual Property Interface ; 6. Traditional Cultural Expressions and Cultural Institutions ; 7. Cultural Institutions and the Documentation of Indigenous Cultural Heritage ; 8. Ko Aotearoa Tenei: Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights in Aotearoa New Zealand ; 9. Sharing and Preserving Indigenous Knowledge of the Arctic Using Information and Communications Technology ; 10. Mayan Languages in the Digital Age: Opportunities and Challenges ; 11. Preparing Entry-level Information Professionals for Work with and for Indigenous PeoplesPart Three - Notions of Libraries, Archives, and Museums: 12. Cultural Relevance in Tribal Libraries ; 13. Inspired by Land and Spirit: Tribal Museums and Cultural Practice ; 14. Establishing Aboriginal Presence in the Museum Sector ; 15. Decolonizing Museological Practices at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights ; 16. Aanischaaukamikw: A Cree Elders’ Vision Expressed Through a Community Institute ; 17. Nā Kahu ‘Ike Hawai'i? Stewards of Hawaiian Knowledge ; 18. Leveraging Memory Institutions to Preserve Indigenous Knowledge in the Knowledge Age: Case of Zimbabwe ; 19. The University of the Philippines Baguio Cordillera Studies Collection Library and UP Baguio Cordillera/Northern Luzon Historical Archives in the Dissemination of Indigenous Knowledge for Indigenous ; 20. A Holistic Perspective on Indigenous Digital Libraries in Taiwan Peoples ; 21. Indigenous Digital Oral History: An Overview ; 22. Accessing Sound at Libraries, Archives, and Museum

Engaging Respectfully with Indigenous Knowledges : Copyright, Customary Law, and Cultural Memory Institutions in Canada

This paper contributes to building respectful relationships between Indigenous (First Nations, Métis, and Inuit) peoples and Canada's cultural memory institutions, such as libraries, archives and museums, and applies to knowledge repositories that hold tangible and intangible traditional knowledge. The central goal of the paper is to advance understandings to allow cultural memory institutions to respect, affirm, and recognize Indigenous ownership of their traditional and living Indigenous knowledges and to respect the protocols for their use. This paper honours the spirit of reconciliation through the joint authorship of people from Indigenous, immigrant, and Canadian heritages. The authors outline the traditional and living importance of Indigenous knowledges; describe the legal framework in Canada, both as it establishes a system of enforceable copyright and as it recognizes Indigenous rights, self-determination, and the constitutional protections accorded to Indigenous peoples; and recommend an approach for cultural memory institutions to adopt and recognize Indigenous ownership of their knowledges, languages, cultures, and histories by developing protocols with each unique Indigenous nation

Panel Discussion : Indigenizing Instruction : Transformative Practices from Western Canada

This session aims to identify ways to support and promote accurate information about Aboriginal people, identify how current library structures may be barriers to full inclusion for Aboriginal students and how to address them, and identify power issues at play in our own instructional practice and how to make positive changes. Panelists are asked to consider the following questions: How do you help your community find themselves in your collection or in your course? How do you Indigenize your instruction?Library, UBCNon UBCUnreviewedFacult