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About the Indigenous Knowledges Digital Learning Library (IKDLL)

What is the IKDLL?

The IKDLL is an Indigenous open educational resources repository operated by Cline Library Special Collections and Archives. The IKDLL is a living, ever-growing repository that provides culturally respectful and appropriate access to content made by, for, or in collaboration with Indigenous peoples and communities. The IKDLL does not contain materials of any culturally sensitive nature. The materials available in the IKDLL include material formats such as oral histories, audio recordings, and moving images, as well as curricular and course materials, textbooks and articles, poetry, and professional presentations.

Mission

The Indigenous Knowledges Digital Learning Library (IKDLL) provides respectful and culturally appropriate access to Indigenous knowledges, cultures, histories, perspectives, and innovations for the purpose of learning, understanding, and teaching.

Vision

The Indigenous Knowledges Digital Learning Library (IKDLL) centers the voices and perspectives of Indigenous Peoples. The IKDLL materials serve as a living repository of Indigenous knowledges, cultures, histories, and futures. Designed as an open resource, the IKDLL provides national and global access to the content contained within the repository.

Collecting scope

The Indigenous Knowledges Digital Learning Library is a digital repository of Indigenous knowledges, cultures, histories, and futures, as told through a wide variety of resources and materials. The IKDLL provides global access to digital content which is important to Indigenous peoples, their ancestors, and their future generations.

The purpose of this repository is to serve as an ever-growing digital educational resource curated in a respectful and culturally responsive manner with content that is reviewed and vetted by Special Collections and Archives (SCA) personnel, NAU personnel and affiliates, and Indigenous community members. Materials gathered for the IKDLL will be initially focused geographically on content related to Indigenous communities and peoples within North America.

The arrangement and management of the IKDLL is informed by and operates under the guidance of the Protocols for Native American Archival Materials, The 6 R’s of Indigenous Open Educational Resources (IOER), and the Seven Generations Indigenous Knowledge Center (7Gen Center) Values. The IOER 6 R’s and the 7Gen Center Values overlap on four values: Respect, Relationships, Responsibility, and Reciprocity, but also diverge on different key points: Reverence and Relevance within the IOER framework, and Representation and Redistribution values of the 7Gen Center. Digital materials in the IKDLL may include but are not limited to library and traditional formats (e.g. moving images, audio recordings, oral histories and interviews, photographs, papers, newspapers and other published materials, lesson plans and other curricular materials, and born digital materials). The IKDLL may also include digital representations of non-traditional materials, after careful consideration and review.

Collaborative review of materials by the IKDLL Team, which includes SCA personnel, NAU personnel and affiliates, and Indigenous community members and tribal representatives, will determine whether access will be granted to these materials, and changes to and revocation of access at any given time is subject to the discretion of SCA staff, NAU personnel and affiliates, and Indigenous partners.

Guiding documents