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TREATY (evolving)

Last updated on Sunday, July 21st, 2019

Treaties are agreements that people make to work together for the common good.

Seeding Treaties – Voices from the Southern Ocean Co-creators:
Lisa Roberts (Project lead), Cat Kutay, Katherina Petrou, Claire Sives, Elisabeth Johnson,
Maddison Gibbs, Chriss Bull.

Here we state what we value and the principles we follow in our interactions with each other and with the broader community:

Guidance

  • Story-telling guided by Indigenous knowledge and the scientific method
  • Indigenous relational research methods, principles and processes

Transparency

  • Balancing between what is made public and kept private
  • Respecting cultural protocols around what is recorded and not recorded

Inclusiveness

  • Diversity of thought, experience and belief
  • Equity, diversity and inclusion

Global citizenship

  • Representing culture respectfully and truthfully

Respect for different communication styles

  • Respecting that people processes information in different ways
  • Allowing for differences in how people express their understandings
  • Asking questions when we do not understand

Sustaining self-determination

  • Maintaining resources through reciprocity and independent funding bodies
  • Respecting and practicing self-determination
  • Respecting that people tell their own stories in their own ways

Data sovereignty

  • Respecting the role of land, ocean and living things as authors of knowledge
  • Recognising intellectual property (IP) on a community scale
  • Acknowledging Ownership, Control, Access and Possession (OCAP)

Protocols

  • Supporting the Non-corruption of oral knowledge to preserve cultural knowledge through time
  • Being sensitive to cultural division (i.e. women’s and men’s business) and protocols around the role of story telling i.e. who can and can’t tell stories

How decisions are made (process and ground rules)

  • The Core Group is made up of six members plus a part-time project manager
  • Core group meetings are scheduled for one hour, weekly, at the initial stage of the project
  • A quorum of three people is required for decisions to be made and actioned