1. The Two Row Wampum & the 4A’s as Digital Archive Information Policy
Dr. Sabrina ER Saunders
CEO, The Blue Mountains Public Library
Former CEO, Six Nations Public Library

2. Two Row Wampum-Guswenta
Agreement between Iroquois & Dutch 1613
Policy of Non-Interference
One can imagine that if anyone were to stand in two different canoes simultaneously, the impossibility of the task would become rapidly evident when the passenger capsizes. Non-interference is just that, choosing and living in one canoe.

3. The Problem Libraries collect archival content
FNPLs must hold non-public / community content
Balance between Archival Standards, Collections Management needs, & Indigenous Knowledge
Digitization, Oral History, Born Digital

4. Indigenous Knowledge
Indigenous Knowledge Battiste & Henderson (2000) Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage: A global challenge.
IK in Libraries: Mandate to Archive in order to preserve/store
For the community
For future researchers
Knowledge of Indigenous
Battiste & Henderson is the academic primer.
IK based on community and research needs of institutions & communities
Indigenous researchers have a right to both protect the IK while conducting research and publications that support the needs of their communities

5. Archivist As Collector-accept as items become available
As Custodian-hold for future users or organizations / Records Management
As Researcher/Historian-Gather secondary, compiling, & analyze
As Social Justice Agent-Truth & Reconcilliation
Cifor 2016
Struggle against injustice

6. Enduring Value
Archivist select based on the perceived value to future researchers
Schwartz & Cook (2002) archives influence what and how future users will learn of our communities
Evidential / Historic Value-details of a specific event, activity or era
Informational Value-key info in a document [birth/death certificate]
Intrinsic Value-unique and rare items
Cuervo (2015)

7. Appraisal Provenance Authenticity Completeness Condition
Intrinsic Value
Cuervo, 2015

8. A1: Indigenous Appraisal
Community needs & interests
Language
Stories
Teachings
Traditional knowledge such as medicine & arts
Cuervo, 2015

9. A2: Indigenous Acquisition
IK versus Ownership, Copyright & Acquisition
Example 1: Rabbit Dance- the recording
Example 2: Rabbit Dance- historic comparisons
Rabbit Dance example--owner of the song, the lyrics, the melody, the story? Can they collect royalties on that song as a version of the song, or as the song itself? What of the next individual who chooses to record the same community held song; are they infringing on a copyright or royalties? How can an individual record a song based on a teaching and claim ownership? These are significant issues in putting down in recording any traditional content.
Speed of Dance faster—the Me generation

10. A3: Indigenous Access
Public Libraries are not private archive-items are public
Indigenous archival content may have restrictions
Family history
Clan Content
Gender Stories
Society teachings
Language specific

11. A4: Action Research Research to resolve a problem or issue
Library / Archive Action Research
Collecting oral history
Creating video
Translating historical documents

12. Guswenta as Information Policy
Policy of Non-Interference
A1: Appraisal
A2: Acquisition
A3: Access
A4: Action Research
CMS Limiters
In the Two Row Model of building and managing archival collections, we must follow the 4A’s as a profession of Indigenous librarian/archivists working to determine and then meet the needs of our community. In Appraisal, we must of course identify enduring value, but also complete a gap analysis of what community needs exist but are not available in any current format. We must consider what might be lost in the next generation (or even next year) and create an acquisition plan accordingly. We must work with respect and dignity to realize the preservation of community needs in Acquisition as we build agreements and new paths forward with our Indigenous Knowledge leaders. We must build Access models via technology of ILS/CMS including standards and criteria for internal and external access to Indigenous and Community knowledge. Finally, we must fill the gap identified in appraisal by completing the Action Research of videography of oral history, or whichever primary collection needs are identified within the libraries community Indigenous Knowledge acquisition plan.

13. Dr. Sabrina ER Saunders ssaunders@TheBlueMountain.ca sredwing@UWO.ca
Questions
Dr. Sabrina ER Saunders