Protocols for Non-Indigenous People Working with Indigenous Knowledge

🌿 NEW RESOURCE | IKS Protocols: Walking Respectfully With Indigenous Knowledge 🌿

Crafted by Indigenous scholars from IKSLabs at Algoma and Deakin Universities—alongside AIME and the Indigenous Commons—this open-source document offers essential guidance for non-Indigenous people seeking to work ethically with Indigenous knowledge systems.

🔥 Not another how-to guide—this is composted wisdom from failed partnerships and extractive projects.

📜 IKS Protocols outlines:

• 5 ritual stages of engagement (Container, Ornament, Tool, Shield, Weapon)

• How to "come alongside" without dominating or distorting

• The difference between respectful inclusion and harmful appropriation

• The sacred responsibility of ‘being called in’ and ‘being called out’

• Why the “third way” fallacy can erase both Indigenous and non-Indigenous systems

💡 This is not a checklist—it's a ceremonial map for relational accountability.

🌀 If you're in philanthropy, sustainability, education, research, governance, or community development, this is required reading. Share it. Sit with it. Let it change how you show up.

📥 [Download the Protocols PDF here]

🌌 We all sit under the same sky. Let’s learn how to walk together in a good way.

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