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IKAT Decision tree

The Indigenous Knowledges Attribution Toolkit (IKAT) decision tree is a critical questioning tool from the Indigenous Referencing Guidance for Indigenous Knowledges

Image of IKAT desision tree as a diagram

"IKAT Decision Tree" by Indigenous Archives Collective; Faulkhead, S; Thorpe, K; Sentance, N; Booker, L; & R Barrowcliffe is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Stepping through a series of critical questions enables you to think about content and authorship and the relationship to Indigenous knowledges in the sources. This enables identification of problematic sources and provides an opportunity to rectify erasure of indigenous knowledges and perspectives.

Once sources are critically evaluated for content and authorship follow citation recommendation for sources and include Nation/Country/Language group after the author, creator or producer’s name. See the Indigenous Referencing Guidance for Indigenous Knowledges

Use the following questions to guide critical evaluation of content and authorship for Indigenous Knowledges .

Questions to guide critical evaluation of content

Questions on Author relationship to knowledge

Indigenous Referencing Guidance for Indigenous Knowledges