Toolkit: Agreement for a Just Partnership with Indigenous Culture-Bearers
Imagining America is pleased to launch a toolkit in collaboration with IA regional partner YoloSol Collective. YoloSol cultivates place-based civic engagement and learning about issues of environmental and economic justice in Yolo County through storytelling, and creative nature-based and multimedia cultural activities.
This Agreement for a Just Collaboration with Bearers of Knowledge and Tradition is intended to build trust and address sensitive issues upfront, when working with cultural knowledge. It is based on a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) created by members of YoloSol with Wintun/Maidu/Hupa/Yurok culture-bearer Diana Almendariz.
The guide offers a chance to view YoloSol’s specific agreement with Diana, and breaks down the process by which readers can create their own MoUs with communities or culture-bearers they are working with. The process is broken down into three sessions, with leading questions for each:
Session 1: Genealogy and Terminology
Session 2: Acknowledging Harms
Session 3: Guiding Commitments
