Protocol will help guide Indigenous knowledges and data collecting, sharing, interpretation and storage
May 24, 2021
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
A new protocol released by the Indigenous Innovation Initiative is receiving plenty of positive feedback and is spreading beyond its originally intended audience.
The Indigenous Knowledges and Data Governance Protocol was made public May 12. The policy’s official name is Nindokiikayencikewin, (pronounced Nin-do-ki-ka-en-ji-gae-win),which translates from Ojibwe to mean seek learning or knowledges.
The purpose of the protocol is to guide communities with how they collect and use Indigenous knowledges and data. The goal is to “rebalance power and revitalize the capacity of innovators and their communities to steward their own knowledges and data, including cultural expression and intellectual property,” reads the protocol.
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By James Rose
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The Supreme Court of British Columbia has dismissed a lawsuit filed by suspended former Metis Nation British Columbia president Clara Morin Dal Col as an abuse of process and a collateral attack.
“I’m happy that this part of the court case is over and MNBC is moving forward,” said MNBC Regional Director Deb Fisher. With Morin Dal Col expected to appeal, Fisher was unable to comment much further on the court’s decision. Morin Dal Col’s lawsuit concerned two motions passed by the MNBC board this past January; one of which temporarily suspended her with pay.
Funding provided to help develop, understand and use Indigenous laws, build governance structures
May 20, 2021
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The Wahkohtowin Law and Governance Lodge at the University of Alberta is one of 21 recipients in the second round of funding in the Justice Partnership and Innovation Program (JPIP) offered by Canada’s Department of Justice.
For Hadley Friedland, assistant professor in the Faculty of Law at UAlberta, the recognition is especially rewarding as JPIP is the federal government’s response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) Call to Action #50.
That call falls under the heading of Equity for Aboriginal People in the Legal System. It reads, “In keeping with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, we call upon the federal government, in collaboration with Aboriginal organizations, to fund the establishment of Indigenous law institutes for the development, use, and understanding of Indig
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