The Two Row Wampum the 4 As as

The Two Row Wampum & the 4 A’s as Digital Archive Information Policy Dr. Sabrina ER Saunders CEO, The Blue Mountains Public Library Former CEO, Six Nations Public Library

Two Row Wampum-Guswenta • Agreement between Iroquois & Dutch 1613 • Policy of Non-Interference

The Problem • Libraries collect archival content • FNPLs must hold non-public / community content • Balance between Archival Standards, Collections Management needs, & Indigenous Knowledge • Digitization, Oral History, Born Digital

Indigenous Knowledge • Indigenous Knowledge Battiste & Henderson (2000) Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage: A global challenge • IK in Libraries: Mandate to Archive in order to preserve/store • For the community • For future researchers • Knowledge of Indigenous .

Archivist • • As Collector-accept as items become available As Custodian-hold for future users or organizations / Records Management As Researcher/Historian-Gather secondary, compiling, & analyze As Social Justice Agent-Truth & Reconcilliation

Enduring Value • Archivist select based on the perceived value to future researchers • Schwartz & Cook (2002) archives influence what and how future users will learn of our communities • Evidential / Historic Value-details of a specific event, activity or era • Informational Value-key info in a document [birth/death certificate] • Intrinsic Value-unique and rare items

Appraisal • • • Provenance Authenticity Completeness Condition Intrinsic Value

A 1: Indigenous Appraisal • • • Community needs & interests Language Stories Teachings Traditional knowledge such as medicine & arts

A 2: Indigenous Acquisition • IK versus Ownership, Copyright & Acquisition • Example 1: Rabbit Dance- the recording • Example 2: Rabbit Dance- historic comparisons

A 3: Indigenous Access • Public Libraries are not private archive-items are public • Indigenous archival content may have restrictions • • • Family history Clan Content Gender Stories Society teachings Language specific

A 4: Action Research • Research to resolve a problem or issue • Library / Archive Action Research • Collecting oral history • Creating video • Translating historical documents

Guswenta as Information Policy • • • Policy of Non-Interference A 1: Appraisal A 2: Acquisition A 3: Access A 4: Action Research CMS Limiters

Questions Dr. Sabrina ER Saunders ssaunders@The. Blue. Mountain. ca sredwing@UWO. ca