Native Bidaské: New Guidelines Aim to Protect Indigenous Knowledge in Scholarly Publishing

Who controls Indigenous knowledge when it enters the world of academic publishing and digital data?

On Friday, September 25, Native Bidaské host Levi Rickert sits down with Dr. Lydia Jennings of Dartmouth College to discuss new guidelines for the governance of Indigenous peoples’ data in scholarly publishing.

Read the guidelines here: https://indigenousdatalab.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Guidelines-for-ID-Sov-for-Publishers-FINAL01.pdf

Dr. Jennings is an environmental soil scientist and a citizen of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe (Yoeme) and Huichol (Wixáritari).

Jennings helped lead a collaborative effort involving Indigenous scholars, allied scholars, journal editors, and data and metadata experts. The resulting guidelines center on the CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance: Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility and Ethics.

Jennings and Rickert discuss how these principles can be applied throughout the scholarly publishing process, including Indigenous rights and interests in data, community and collective authorship, tribal affiliations, metadata, and the responsibilities of publishers and editors.

The conversation also examines the importance of protecting Indigenous knowledge and ensuring that information remains connected to the communities that steward it.

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