“…the meaning of the story changes, you change, and as you change, your relationship to the land comes, and that's why I always talk about the land being our teacher. That's really where we go to university as Indigenous people. And we have PhDs in our land and in our language and in our knowledge that need to be acknowledged in that way. So remembering that only the true expression can happen of that knowledge in the proper cultural context.”
-Camille Callison
GUEST INSTRUCTOR: Camille Callison (Tahltan Nation) is a PhD student (Anthropology) and the Indigenous Strategies Librarian at the University of Manitoba. She is a passionate cultural activist who currently serves as the Chair, IFLA Indigenous Matters Section; Secretary, IEEE P2890™ Recommended Practice for Provenance of Indigenous Peoples’ Data; member, National Film Board’s- Indigenous Advisory Group and a member of Canada’s Steering Committee on Archives – Truth & Reconciliation Commission Taskforce. Over the past few years, she has served in many capacities including as a Canadian Federation of Library Associations (CFLA-FCAB) board member; Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Committee then subsequently Chair/Past Chair of Indigenous Matters Committee and as a Copyright Committee member. Camille was also Vice-Chair, Memory of the World Committee of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, that established Canada’s national program.
READINGS (selected by Camille Callison)
Canadian Federation of Library Associations/La Fédération canadienne des associations de bibliothèques (CFLA-FCAB). 2017. Truth and Reconciliation Committee Report and Recommendations. Available at: http://cfla-fcab.ca/en/indigenous/trc_report/
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (articles 12, 14, & 31) https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/declaration-on-the-rights-of-indigenous-peoples.html
Younging, Greg. (2016). The Traditional Knowledge – Intellectual Property Interface. In Indigenous Notions of Ownership and Libraries, Archives and Museums, eds. Camille Callison; Loriene Roy, and Gretchen Alice LeCheminant (Eds), IFLA Publications Series 166, Berlin/Munich: De Gruyter Saur, 2016. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110363234-008/html
First Nations Principles of OCAP: https://fnigc.ca/ocap-training/
OPTIONAL
First Archivist Circle. 4 September 2007. Protocols for Native American Archival Materials https://www2.nau.edu/libnap-p/protocols.html
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Report Findings and Calls to Action
Global Indigenous Data Alliance (GIDA). CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance https://www.gida-global.org/care
IEEE P2890 - Recommended Practice for Provenance of Indigenous Peoples’ Data https://standards.ieee.org/project/2890.html
FURTHER
Callison, Camille, 2014. “Indigenous Peoples’ New Canoe,” in Aboriginal and Visible Minority Librarians: Oral Histories from Canada, Deborah Lee and Mahalakshmi Kumaran, eds., 135-144. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2014.
Callison, Camille. 2019. Sorting Libraries Out, Keynote Presentation 12 March, Simon Fraser University. https://ocs.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/dcid/dcid2019/paper/view/73/57.
Daigneault (Métis), Taylor, Amy Mazowita, Candida Rifkind, and Camille Callison (Tahltan). 2019. “Indigenous Comics and Graphic Novels: An Annotated Bibliography”. Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 11 (1), i-xxxvi. https://jeunessejournal.ca/index.php/yptc/article/view/504.
Decolonizing Knowledge, feature in American Libraries, June 2020: https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoop/decolonizing-knowledge/