TK and BC Labels
These two types of labels—abbreviated as TK and BC—are tools developed for Indigenous communities to express local conditions for sharing knowledge and data.
What are Traditional Knowledge (TK) and Biocultural Labels (BC)?
This specific Notice indicates an institution's commitment to building new partnerships with Indigenous Peoples regarding heritage collections.
What is "Open to Collaborate"?
Developed in collaboration with the Smithsonian, these visible identifiers—abbreviated "CC"—help archives support Indigenous-led cultural care and protocols.
What are Collections Care Notices?
Tucked away in a tropical rainforest, this indigenous group passes down unique skills and innovations from generation to generation
Who are the Yakuanoi?
Non-Indigenous educators in Ontario are on a continuous professional and personal learning journey, on which each educator has this responsibility.
What is the responsibility to learn about Indigenous knowledge?
To ensure international identification and protect their integrity, the Indigenous-led organization Local Contexts states that the design of these things, identifying Indigenous knowledge and protocols, may not be altered.
What are the Label Icons?
The "Open to Collaborate" Notice is primarily used for collections and data that have unclear provenance or this specific type of problematic history.
What is colonial history?
Reflecting Indigenous worldviews, the CC Notices emphasize that items within collections are not merely objects, but should be cared for as these living things.
What are relatives and relations?
The Yakuanoi community harvests this vibrant green resource in late spring to create a highly prized healing paste
What is the resaurian (serein) shoot?
Educators in Ontario cannot avoid teaching about these institutions just because they feel "uncomfortable" doing so, because these institutions are a part of the Ontario Curriculum.
What are residential schools?
Local Contexts categorizes its labels into three different groups: Protocol Labels, Permission Labels, and this third group that identifies the primary Indigenous authority for the material.
What are Provenance Labels?
These things and people can generate and apply these organization-facing Notices by utilizing the online platform Local Context Hub.
What are institutions and researchers?
CC Notices should be used within these physical archive areas, as well as implemented digitally into an institution’s online archive.
What are collections storage areas or spaces?
This character leaves their village to study law and ultimately helps their community navigate intellectual property issues
Who is the narrator (or the Yakuanoi law student)?
This elementary teachers' union website is highlighted as a "treasure trove" of information regarding treaties, land acknowledgements, and avoiding cultural appropriation.
What is ETFO (Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario)?
The Local Contexts Hub is an online platform where Indigenous communities can go to customize and apply these specific kinds of labels to their datasets, publications, or collections.
What are TK and BC Labels?
Users can download the Notice Style and Usage Guide to ensure these two things are used in proper kinds of implementation.
What are visual and textual implementation?
The Local Context Hub uses 4 CC Notices; these first two Notices, alphabetically, begin with A and B.
What are "Authorization" and "Belonging" labels?
A cosmetics company mass-produced an anti-aging cream using this, and then applied for a patent and trademark using the name "Yakuanoi"
What is the Yakuanoi community's traditional knowledge?
Known by this four-letter acronym, this Ontario council provides educators with a quick reference guide on classroom protocols when it comes to incorporating Indigenous knowledge and content into classes.
What is the Council of Ontario Drama and Dance, or CODE?
In June 2024, Te Roroa, a Māori Iwi from Northland, Aotearoa New Zealand, marked a milestone by applying this kind of label to a university thesis.
What is a Biocultural Provenance Label?
In its organizational acknowledgment, Local Contexts explicitly recognizes all lands and waters where they operate as these.
What are Indigenous Homelands?
The Local Context Hub uses the "Withholding" label to indicate this.
What is the fact that no reproductions of a labelled item or collection should ever be made?
To resolve the dispute fairly, the cosmetics company that tried to trademark Yakuanoi traditional knowledge with the Yakuanoi name agreed to resubmit their applications naming the Yakuanoi as these
What are co-owners?
This website offers free educational resource kits, lesson plans, and videos of Indigenous Knowledge Keepers sharing their stories.
What is “Helping Our Mother Earth,” or helpingourmotherearth.com?