Society of Ethnobiology Conference 2026
The Local Contexts team will present at the 47th Annual Conference of the Society of Ethnobiology held virtually and in-person in Sewanee, Tennessee, United States.
Outreach Coordinator Amy June Breesman (Eastern Shawnee) will present “Activating the Local Contexts tools to uphold Indigenous Peoples’ rights in biocultural data sharing” as a part of the “Ethics and Collaborations in Ethnobiology” session on May 21 UTC.
As ethnobotanists and biologists work increasingly with historic and contemporary data collected about and with Indigenous Peoples, what are the necessary actions to ensure outcomes are aligned with the FAIR and CARE principles? In this session, participants will gain an understanding of the Local Contexts tools for Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Governance: the Notices, the Labels, and the Hub that enables and deploys them in digital environments. Local Contexts is a global nonprofit that supports Indigenous communities to reassert authority in heritage collections and data. Focusing on Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property, the tools repatriate knowledge and gain control over how data is collected, managed, displayed, accessed, and used in the future. With a focus on examples with Notices and Labels utilized in aquatic research, we will navigate how practitioners can build data infrastructure allowing communities of origin to relate to and assert protocols for data generated by outsider researchers.
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