Protocols for Native American Archival Materials: Toolkit

Following the formal endorsement of the Protocols for Native American Archival Materials (PNAAM) by the SAA in 2018, the Native American Archives Section received SAA Foundation funding to create a series of workshops communicating aspects of the PNAAM. This project, “Implementing the PNAAM: Webinar Series and Resource Toolkit,” outlines the purpose of the PNAAM, the general application of the PNAAM in archival settings, and tangible ways to move forward (institutionally and/or individually) with implementation.

Building Relationships of Mutual Respect

• Ghaddar, Jamila, and Nadia Caidi. 2014. “Indigenous Knowledge in a Post-Apology Era: Steps toward Healing and Bridge Building.” Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology 40 (5): 41–45.
• Murphy, Devon. 2019. “Guidelines on Working with Indigenous Partners and Information.” Getty Research Institute.
• Truth & Reconciliation Committee. 2017. “Truth and Reconciliation Report and Recommendations.” Canadian Federation of Library Associations.

Accessibility and Use

• Gilman, Isaac. 2006. “From Marginalization to Accessibility: Classification of Indigenous Materials.” Pacific University.

Accessibility and Use: Culturally Sensitive Materials

• American Philosophical Society sample policies
• Mukurtu
• Newberry Library sample policies
• Traditional Knowledge labels

Accessibility and Use: Providing Context

• Adolpho, Kalani. 2018. “Decolonizing Cataloging and Classification.” University of Wisconsin–Madison.
• American Philosophical Society, Guide to the Indigenous Material at the APS
• American Indian Library Association, Subject Access and Classification Committee Wiki
• Bone, Christine. 2016. “Modifications to the Library of Congress Subject Headings for use by Manitoba archives.” Presentation at IFLA World Library and Information Congress, Columbus.
• Bone, Christine, Brett Lougheed, Camille Callison, Janet La France, and Terry Reilly. 2015. “Changes to Library of Congress Subject Headings Related to Indigenous Peoples: For Use in the AMA MAIN Database.” University of Manitoba.
• Cameron, Marilyn. 2020. “Indigenous Subject Headings Modification Project.” Red River College. (download slides here)
• Doyle, Ann M., Kimberley Lawson, and Sarah Dupont. 2015. “Indigenization of Knowledge Organization at the Xwi7xwa Library.” International Journal of Library and Information Studies 13, no. 2: 107-134.
• Farnel, Sharon and Sheila Laroque. 2018. “Decolonizing Description at the University of Alberta Libraries.” Presentation for Special Library Asssociation Western Chapter webinar series.
• Hoffman, Nadine. 2020. “Controlled Vocabulary and Indigenous Terminology in Canadian Arctic Legal Research.” University of Calgary.
• Indigenous Matters Committee. 2019. “First Nations, Metis and Inuit – Indigenous Ontologies (FNMIIO).” Canadian Federation of Library Associations.
• Lee, Deborah. 2011. “Indigenous Knowledge Organization: A Study of Concepts, Terminology, Structure and (Mostly) Indigenous Voices.” Partnership: the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research 6, no. 1.
• Littletree, Sandra, and Cheryl A. Metoyer. 2015. “Knowledge Organization from an Indigenous Perspective: The Mashantucket Pequot Thesaurus of American Indian Terminology Project.” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 53, no. 5-6: 640-657.
• Lougheed, Brett, Ry Moran, and Camille Callison. 2015. “Reconciliation through Description: Using Metadata to Realize the Vision of the National Research Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 53 (5–6): 596–614.
• National Library of New Zealand, Ngā Upoko Tukutuku (Maori Subject Headings)
• Pitt Rivers Museum, Cultural Groups Research Project
• Reyes, Kuuleilani, Keikilani Meyer, and Stacy Naipo. 2021. “E Ola Ka ʻIke Hawaiʻi (Long Live Hawaiian Knowledge).” University of Hawaii Manoa.
• Smith-Yoshimura, Karen. 2019. “Strategies for Alternate Subject Headings and Maintaining Subject Headings.” Hanging Together.
• Sorting Libraries Out Symposium 2019, “Decolonizing Classification and Indigenizing Description” presentations
• South Australian Museum, Cultural Sensitivity Warning
• University of Hawaii, Lau ā Lau ka ʻIke (Knowledge Abounds)
• Vaughan, Crystal. 2018. “The Language of Cataloguing: Deconstructing and Decolonizing Systems of Organization in Libraries.” Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management.
• White, Hollie C. 2018. “Decolonizing the Way Libraries Organize.” Presentation at IFLA World Library and Information Congress, Kuala Lumpur.
• Worth, Sydney. 2019. “This Library Takes an Indigenous Approach to Categorizing Books.” YES! Magazine.
• X̱wi7x̱wa Library, “Indigenous Knowledge Organization.” University of British Columbia.

Native American Intellectual Property Issues

• Reed, Trevor. 2016. “Who Owns Our Ancestors’ Voices: Tribal Claims to Pre-1972 Sound Recordings.” Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts 40: 275.
• Anderson, Jane, and Kimberly Christen. 2019. “Decolonizing Attribution: Traditions of Exclusion.” Journal of Radical Librarianship 5: 113–52.

Copying and Repatriation of Records to Native American Communities

• Museum Anthropology Review 7 (2013), no. 1-2. “After the Return: Digital Repatriation and the Circulation of Indigenous Knowledge” (special issue).

Reciprocal Education and Training

• International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, Changing the Status Quo: Museum Decolonization Institute
• Hawaiʻi Museums Association, Mākau Moʻomeheu (Cultural Competence in Hawaiʻi’s Museums)

Awareness of Native American Communities and Issues

• Archives and Special Collections at Amherst College, Native American Literary Atlas: Intellectual Networks Across Place and Time
• Webster, Kelly, and Ann M. Doyle. 2008. “Don’t Class Me in Antiquities!: Giving Voice to Native American Materials.” McFarland.