I) Respect the privacy rights of tribal groups.
Indigenous Uprising is a public archive. We are aware of the amount of sacred information available in various archives, libraries, museums, and the Internet. The materials we collect do not contain any sort of sacred documentation that individuals or tribes deem private. Many institutions may place restrictions on a collection for reasons of group and individual privacy, confidentiality, or security. Because we are a public archive, we refuse to make available any materials that specific Indigenous peoples deem private.
If you come across any information in our archives that is believed to be private, we ask you to inform us. We pull the information immediately from our database and the review process begins with specific tribal involvement.
Under our peer-review process, we hope to weed out any information that is sacred to individuals and tribes as a whole. The peer-review process begins with consultation with the specific tribal Historic Preservation officers when questionable materials are found. Once the ok has been given by the specific tribe, the document is sent out to ten Indigenous scholars for review. Our reviewers are asked to make notes. These notes are shared with the author/artist and revision is requested. If the material is historical, our peer-review notes are published along with the digital file.
The Protocols for Native American Archival Materials tells us that, "Questions of access, ownership, and control of Native American archival material can prompt philosophical and practical concerns, particularly when there is inadequate information about community sovereignty and associated legal rights, community ownership of original source information, initial community restrictions on information sharing and distribution, and other related issues."