When Reconciliation Meets Conflict: Exploring Indigenous Archives

• Main Author: Mickelson, Samuel
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: UBC iSchool 2017
• Subjects: archivists; first nations; aboriginal; First Nations
• Online Access: http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/seealso/article/view/188940; https://doi.org/10.14288/sa.v0i3.188940

This article proposes a framework of Indigenous archives that encompasses repositories housed in Indigenous communities and non-Indigenous repositories that care for records by and about Indigenous peoples. The author contends that a discourse of Indigenous archives can help archivists reform their theories and methodologies in ways that support Indigenous sovereignty and ways of knowing. The author makes the case for a discourse of Indigenous archives by using two case studies and reviewing key policy documents such as the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.