Thursday, 20th October Jenny L. Davis Repatriation, Continuous Consent, and Collaboration

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Thursday, 20th October 11am (AEST)
Repatriation, Continuous Consent, and Collaboration: Ethical considerations for working with Indigenous languages in archives & databases

Jenny L. Davis, Chickasaw Nation, Associate Professor of Anthropology & American Indian Studies and Director, American Indian Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

How do we engage with archived collections and linguistic databases that were created within a different set of ethics than those that we now hold, or when we do not know the ethics of how they were collected? How do we address the gaps between what may be considered the best practices—currently or in a previous moment—in a field of research, and those held by the community/ies from which the collection comes? A growing body of research addresses the options and strategies for collecting data or conducting research within Indigenous communities in ways that are grounded in ethical practice. Framed under the rubrics of collaborative, engaged, activist, community-based, and Indigenous methods, these discussions represent an exciting opportunity to move our field(s) away from the violent and colonial research methods established under historical and ongoing colonial frameworks. But, they are largely limited to those who are actively doing language documentation and description work themselves. In a largely unconnected field of practice, that of repatriation (or rematriation) of Indigenous Ancestral remains and Indigenous material collections, guidelines have emerged that center/require consultation with Native nations and descendant communities around access, research, and display of collections from Indigenous communities (Consultation). This talk brings together best practices across collaborative research models for language documentation, consultation procedures in repatriation, and data sovereignty models which require ongoing consent to propose ethics and strategies for engaging with Native American and Indigenous language databases and archival materials.