Cultural Stewardship and Waymaking with Local Contexts Labels and Notices

In this introductory session, attendees will learn about the global work of Local Contexts, an Indigenous-led nonprofit. Responsive to years of iteration and learning with researchers and local communities, Local Contexts delivers much-needed digital tools which affirm Indigenous Peoples' access, attribution, and provenance over their own data in the natural and social sciences fields. The Biocultural and Traditional Knowledge Labels are assigned by Indigenous communities to reflect protocols, while Notices are used by researchers and institutions to disclose Indigenous data and interests. Ethnographers and those in related fields will learn how to use Local Contexts as a path finding tool for valuable collaboration in research and its utility to apply permanent identifiers in metadata to uphold the FAIR and CARE principles in support of Indigenous Data Sovereignty.