Engaging Respectfully with Indigenous Knowledges

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