The Indigenous Archives Collective position statement on the right of reply to Indigenous knowledges and information held in archives

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Acknowledgements

The Indigenous Archives Collective (IAC) acknowledges Traditional Custodians across Australia and the surrounding seas, and we pay our respect to their Elders past and present. IAC acknowledges that sovereignty was never ceded.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Notes

1. The Position Statement is also available in the Indigenous Archives Collective blog, available at: <https://indigenousarchives.net/indigenous-archives-collective-position-statement-on-the-right-of-reply-to-indigenous-knowledges-and-information-held-in-archives/>, accessed 15 September 2021.

2. Symposium sessions were recorded and a number can be viewed online at: <https://vimeo.com/385880219>, <https://vimeo.com/385883696>, <https://vimeo.com/385894072>, <https://vimeo.com/385901508>, accessed 15 September 2021.

3. National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families, Bringing them home: report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families, 1997, available at: <https://humanrights.gov.au/our-work/bringing-them-home-report-1997>, accessed 15 September 2021.

4. ICA Expert Group on Indigenous Matters, ‘Tandanya – Adelaide Declaration’, 2019, available at: <https://www.naa.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-06/Tandanya-Adelaide-Declaration.pdf>, accessed 15 September 2021.

5. The issues paper is available at: <https://indigenousarchives.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/final-right-of-reply-issues-paper-october-2019.pdf>, accessed 15 September 2021.

6. Monash University Caulfield School of Information Technology, Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies, Public Record Office of Victoria, Koorie Heritage Trust Inc., Victorian Koorie Records Taskforce and Australian Society of Archivists Indigenous Issues Special Interest Group, ‘Koorie Archiving: Trust and technology. Final Report’, 2009, available at: <https://www.monash.edu/it/hcc/dedt/past-initiatives/trust-and-technology/final-report>, accessed 15 September 2021.

7. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Library Information Resource Network (ATSILIRN), ‘ATSILIRN Protocols for Libraries Archives and Information Services’, 2015, available at: <http://atsilirn.aiatsis.gov.au/protocols.php>, accessed 15 September 2021.

8. Monash University Caulfield School of Information Technology et al., ‘Koorie Archiving: Trust and Technology. Final Report’, 2009, available at: <https://www.monash.edu/it/hcc/dedt/past-initiatives/trust-and-technology/final-report>, accessed 15 September 2021.

9. United Nations, ‘United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples’, 2007, available at: <https://www.refworld.org/docid/471355a82.html>, accessed 15 September 2021.

10. Monash University, ‘Statement of Principles relating to Australian Indigenous Knowledge and the Archives’, 2009, available at: <https://www.monash.edu/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/2374166/Statement-of-Principles-relating-to-Australian-Indigenous-Knowledge-and-the-Archives-v2.pdf>, accessed 15 September 2021.

11. Terri Janke, True Tracks: Indigenous cultural and intellectual property principles for putting self-determination into practice, 2019, available at: <https://www.terrijanke.com.au/terri-janke-phd-true-tracks>.

12. Jennifer R O’Neal, ‘“The Right to Know”: Decolonizing Native American Archives’, Journal of Western Archives, vol. 6, no. 1, 2015, Article 2.

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Indigenous Archives Collective

The Indigenous Archives Collective is a group of researchers and practitioners – both Indigenous and non-Indigenous – created to support dialogue on themes related to Indigenous archives. Established by Dr Shannon Faulkhead and Kirsten Thorpe through a National Archives of Australia Ian Maclean Research Award (2011 to 2016), it was revitalised in 2018 and it is now supported by the Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS).