Featured Publications
The Indigenous Right of Reply to Archives: Working towards Indigenous Sovereignty, Healing, and Justice in Archival Practice
This book brings together leading Indigenous and allied thinkers, practitioners, and advocates to address the critical issue of the Right of Reply in archives — foregrounding truth-telling, cultural safety, and Indigenous sovereignty across GLAM institutions.
Collecting institutions have shaped and maintained records produced by colonial systems of administration and continue to play a role in perpetuating colonial paradigms that are inherently resistant to the needs and priorities of Indigenous peoples. Against this backdrop, this book embarks on a scholarly investigation into the concept known as the ‘Right of Reply.’ This concept speaks to Indigenous peoples’ right to update, correct, critique, or enhance Indigenous knowledge that is held in collecting institutions. Spanning creative responses, case studies, policy critiques, and international perspectives, the volume explores how the Right of Reply operates as a political and ethical imperative in the work of archives. Contributors examine Indigenous-led protocols, the impact of colonial recordkeeping, digital repatriation, metadata annotation, and structural transformation in Australia, Aotearoa, and the United States.
The volume offers a blueprint for decolonising archives and centring Indigenous agency, illuminating the innovative strategies being implemented across institutional and community settings. It is essential reading for archivists, curators, scholars, and anyone committed to transforming GLAM practice.
In 2022, members of the Indigenous Archives Collective responded to an expression of interest by CAVAL for a consultation partner to develop Indigenous Referencing Guidance for Indigenous Knowledges . The scope of work was to build on and produce referencing guidance to extend the work of the CAVAL Acknowledging Cultural authority and Indigenous Knowledges in referencing Working Group (CACIK) Project.
Indigenous Archives Collective; Faulkhead, S; Thorpe, K; Sentance, N; Booker, L; & R Barrowcliffe. (2023) Indigenous Referencing Guidance for Indigenous Knowledges. Indigenous Archives Collective and the UTS Jumbunna Institute of Indigenous Education and Research.
Decolonising Citation: Indigenous Knowledge Attribution Toolkit and Australian Library Citational Practices
Thorpe, K., Faulkhead, S., Booker, L., mudyi Sentance, N., & Barrowcliffe, R. (2026). Decolonising Citation: Indigenous Knowledge Attribution Toolkit and Australian Library Citational Practices. KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies, 9(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.18357/kula.315
Honouring Indigenous Knowledges: Guidance for Respectful Practice and Attribution in Academic Works
Barrowcliffe, R., Thorpe, K., Sentance, N. M., Booker, L., & Faulkhead, S. (2025). Honouring Indigenous Knowledges: Guidance for Respectful Practice and Attribution in Academic Works. In Indigenous Research Knowledges and Their Place in the Academy (pp. 15-29). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-92703-4_2
Indigenous Archives Collective Member’s Publications By Year
2026
Booker, L., & Sentance, N. M. (2026). We are not numbers: sonic and poetic refusals of pseudoscience in the archive. History Australia, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2026.2624732
2025
Bouich, A., Galassi, M., Gooding, P., Spooner, R., Thorpe, K., Booker, L., … & Callaghan, S. (2025). iREAL: Inclusive Requirements Elicitation for AI in Libraries to Support Respectful Management of Indigenous Knowledges. Literature Review.
Littletree, S., O’Neal, J., Begay, V., Soto, A., Marsh, D., Thorpe, K., & Palmer, C. L. (2025). Relational Accountability in Indigenous Data Stewardship and Archival Practices. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 62(1), 1258-1263.
Thorpe, K. (2025). Living Indigenous Archives. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003496908
2024
Thorpe, K. (2024). Designing Indigenous-led archival futures: The application of Indigenous research methodologies within archival research and practice. Archives and Manuscripts, 52(1), 29-44. https://doi.org/10.37683/asa.v52.10991
Hurley, C., McKemmish, S., Reed, B., & Timbery, N. (2024). The power of provenance in the records continuum. Archival Science, 24(4), 825-845.
Acres, L., Baumann, G., Lancaster, R., Murphy, C., & Strasek-Barker, M. (2024). UQ has a Blak history.
Thorpe, K., Sentance, N., & Booker, L. (2024). Wikimedia Australia and first nations metadata: utilising the ATSILIRN protocols to create culturally appropriate description and access. New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, 30(3-4), 201-222.
O’Neal, J. R. (2024). Indigenizing Research and Archives: Relationality and the Collections Back Movement. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 113(1), 11-27.
Galassi, M. (2024). Archivi Aborigeni in Italia Aboriginal Records in Italy: The Translation of Knowledge within the Cultural Interface. University of Technology Sydney (Australia).
O’Neal, J. R. (2024). Introduction: Indigenous Studies in Archives and Beyond: Relationships, Reciprocity, and Responsibilities. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 113(1), 1-9.
Thorpe, K. (2024). Unclasping the white hand: Reflecting on Fourmile’s critique of the archives and vision for Indigenous Living Archives on Country. Aboriginal History, 48, 55-74. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48831162
2023
2022
Thorpe, K., & Booker, L. (2022). 18 Navigating Respectful Practice to Support Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights in Australian Libraries. In 18 Navigating Respectful Practice to Support Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights in Australian Libraries (pp. 440–466). De Gruyter Saur. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110732009-020/html?lang=en
Sentance, N. M. (2022). Introduction to Section Two. Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals, 18(1), 28–30. https://doi.org/10.1177/15501906211072915
McKemmish, S., Chandler, T., & Faulkhead, S. (2022). Imagine: a living archive of people and place “somewhere beyond custody”. In Archives in a changing climate-part I & part II (pp. 73-93). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
2021
Fiona Blackburn. (2021). Moments of Illumination: A personal experience narrative of cultural competence. In Autoethnography for Librarians and Information Scientists (pp. 131–144). Routledge.
Kirsten Thorpe, Kimberly Christen, Lauren Booker, & Monica Galassi. (2021). Designing archival information systems through partnerships with Indigenous communities. Australasian Journal of Information Systems, 25. https://doi.org/10.3127/ajis.v25i0.2917
Thorpe, K. (2021). The dangers of libraries and archives for Indigenous Australian workers: Investigating the question of Indigenous cultural safety. IFLA Journal, 47(3), 341–350. https://doi.org/10.1177/0340035220987574
Barrowcliffe, R. (2021). Celebrating K’gari: Why the renaming of Fraser Island is about so much more than a name. The Conversation. http://theconversation.com/celebrating-kgari-why-the-renaming-of-fraser-island-is-about-so-much-more-than-a-name-168378
Barrowcliffe, R. (2021). Closing the narrative gap: Social media as a tool to reconcile institutional archival narratives with Indigenous counter-narratives. Archives and Manuscripts, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/01576895.2021.1883074
Barrowcliffe, R., Booker, L., McKemmish, S., & Thorpe, K. (2021). Activating and supporting the Tandanya Adelaide Declaration on Indigenous Archives. Archives and Manuscripts, 1(19). https://doi.org/10.1080/01576895.2021.1961086
Sentance, N. (2021). A Matter of History. Public History Review, 28, 147–151. https://doi.org/10.5130/phrj.v28i0.7747
Golding, F., Lewis, A., McKemmish, S., Rolan, G., & Thorpe, K. (2021). Rights in records: A Charter of Lifelong Rights in Childhood Recordkeeping in Out-of-Home Care for Australian and Indigenous Australian children and care leavers. The International Journal of Human Rights, 25(9), 1625–1657. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2020.1859484
2020
Kirsten Thorpe, & Jacqueline Wilson. (2020). Decolonizing recordkeeping and archival praxis in childhood out-of-home Care and Indigenous archival collections. Archival Science. https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=7_rgnHEAAAAJ&sortby=pubdate&citation_for_view=7_rgnHEAAAAJ:L8Ckcad2t8MC
Thorpe, K. (2020). Indigenous voice and representation in libraries and archives: A critical reflection. Incite (Sydney), 41(1/2), 26–27.
Joanne Evans, Shannon Faulkhead, Kirsten Thorpe, Karen Adams, Lauren Booker, & Narissa Timberry. (2020). Indigenous archiving and wellbeing: Surviving, thriving, reconciling. Community Archives, Community Spaces: Heritage, Memory and Identity, 129–148.
Barrowcliffe, R. (2020, June 17). #BlackLivesMatter and archives in Australia. Indigenous Archives Collective. https://indigenousarchives.net/2020/06/17/blacklivesmatter-and-archives-in-australia/
Barrowcliffe, R. (2020, July 20). Response to comments to the #BLACKLIVESMATTER AND ARCHIVES IN AUSTRALIA blog post. Indigenous Archives Collective. https://indigenousarchives.net/2020/07/21/response-to-comments-to-the-blacklivesmatter-and-archives-in-australia-blog-post/
Fiona Blackburn. (2020). Cultural Competence: Toward a More Robust Conceptualisation. Public Library Quarterly (New York, N.Y.), 39(3), 229–245. https://doi.org/10.1080/01616846.2019.1636750
Kirsten Thorpe, Shannon Faulkhead, & Lauren Booker. (2020). Transforming the archive: Returning and connecting Indigenous repatriation records. In The Routledge Companion to Indigenous Repatriation: Return, Reconcile, Renew (pp. 822–834). Routledge. https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=7_rgnHEAAAAJ&sortby=pubdate&citation_for_view=7_rgnHEAAAAJ:bEWYMUwI8FkC
McKemmish, S., Bone, J., Evans, J., Golding, F., Lewis, A., Rolan, G., Thorpe, K., & Wilson, J. (2020). Correction to: Decolonizing recordkeeping and archival praxis in childhood out-of-home Care and Indigenous archival collections. Archival Science, 20(2), 197–198. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-020-09336-x
2019
Thorpe, K. (2019). Speaking back to colonial collections: Building living Aboriginal archives. Artlink, 39(2), 42–49.
Kirsten Thorpe & Cassie Willis. (2019). Aboriginal Histories in Australia Government Archives. Acid Free Magazine. https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=7_rgnHEAAAAJ&sortby=pubdate&citation_for_view=7_rgnHEAAAAJ:iH-uZ7U-co4C
Thorpe, K. (2019). Taking the Mukurtu project international. Incite (Sydney), 40(3/4), 24-.
Ewan Maidment & Fiona Blackburn. (2019). Administration of the Aurukun archives held at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. Archives and Manuscripts, 47(1), 20–34. https://doi.org/10.1080/01576895.2018.1540307
Kirsten Thorpe. (2019). Ethics, Indigenous Cultural Safety and the Archives. Archifacts. https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=7_rgnHEAAAAJ&sortby=pubdate&citation_for_view=7_rgnHEAAAAJ:ZeXyd9-uunAC
Kirsten Thorpe. (2019). Transformative Praxis—Building Spaces for Indigenous Self-Determination in Libraries and Archives. https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=7_rgnHEAAAAJ&sortby=pubdate&citation_for_view=7_rgnHEAAAAJ:Wp0gIr-vW9MC
Giron, V., Maxwell, J., Chong, E., Samarawickrama, S., Sentance, N., & Pivet, R. (2019). Public libraries. The Lifted Brow, 42, 101–106.
Sabra Thorner, Fran Edmonds, Maree Clarke, Kirsten Thorpe, Rimi Khan, & Sharon Huebner. (2019). The Living Archive of Aboriginal Art: Maree Clarke and the Circulation of Photographs as Culture-Making. Mapping Meaning: The Journal. https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=7_rgnHEAAAAJ&sortby=pubdate&citation_for_view=7_rgnHEAAAAJ:e5wmG9Sq2KIC
McKemmish, S., Chandler, T., & Faulkhead, S. (2019). Imagine: A living archive of people and place “somewhere beyond custody”. Archival Science, 19(3), 281–301. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-019-09320-0
2018
Thorpe, K., & Galassi, M. (2018). Diversity, inclusion & respect: Embedding Indigenous priorities in public library services. Public Library Quarterly (New York, N.Y.), 37(2), 180–194. https://doi.org/10.1080/01616846.2018.1460568
Adams, K., Faulkhead, S., Standfield, R., & Atkinson, P. (2018). Challenging the colonisation of birth: Koori women’s birthing knowledge and practice. Women and Birth : Journal of the Australian College of Midwives, 31(2), 81–88. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wombi.2017.07.014
2017
Shannon Faulkhead & Kirsten Thorpe. (2017). Dedication: Archives and Indigenous communities: Our knowing Allison Boucher Krebs (September 8, 1951 – January 26, 2013). In Research in the Archival Multiverse. https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=7_rgnHEAAAAJ&sortby=pubdate&citation_for_view=7_rgnHEAAAAJ:KlAtU1dfN6UC
Fiona Blackburn. (2017). Community engagement, cultural competence and two Australian public libraries and Indigenous communities. IFLA Journal, 43(3), 288–301. https://doi.org/10.1177/0340035217696320
Kirsten Thorpe. (2017). Aboriginal community archives: A case study in ethical community research. In Research in the archival multiverse. https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=7_rgnHEAAAAJ&sortby=pubdate&citation_for_view=7_rgnHEAAAAJ:M3ejUd6NZC8C
2016
Thorpe, K., Galassi, M., & Franks, R. (2016). Discovering Indigenous Australian Culture: Building Trusted Engagement in Online Environments. Journal of Web Librarianship, 10(4), 343–363. https://doi.org/10.1080/19322909.2016.1197809
Thorpe, K., & Byrne, A. (2016). Indigenous voices in the State Library of New South Wales. The Australian Library Journal, 65(1), 17–29. https://doi.org/10.1080/00049670.2016.1129682
Simon Dwyer, Rachel Franks, Monica Galassi, & Kirsten Thorpe. (2016). the betwixt and between. TEXT. https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=7_rgnHEAAAAJ&cstart=20&pagesize=80&sortby=pubdate&citation_for_view=7_rgnHEAAAAJ:isC4tDSrTZIC
Nicholls, S., Booker, L., Thorpe, K., Jackson, M., Girault, C., Briggs, R., & Jones, C. (2016). From principle to practice: Community consultation regarding access to Indigenous language material in archival records at the State Library of New South Wales. Archives and Manuscripts, 44(3), 110–123. https://doi.org/10.1080/01576895.2016.1239116
2015
Thorpe, K., & Galassi, M. (2015). Diversity, Recognition, Respect: Embedding Indigenous Services at the State Library of New South Wales, Australia. http://library.ifla.org/id/eprint/1144/
Webb, D. (2015). Curating with Community. IFLA WLIC 2015, Cape Town, South Africa. http://library.ifla.org/id/eprint/1143/
Kirsten Thorpe & M Joseph. (2015). Digital engagement and the ATSILIRN protocols: Indigenous Australian experiences and expertise guiding the use of social media in libraries. https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=7_rgnHEAAAAJ&pagesize=80&sortby=pubdate&citation_for_view=7_rgnHEAAAAJ:_kc_bZDykSQC
Jennifer R O’Neal. (2015). ‘The Right to Know’: Decolonizing Native American Archives. Journal of Western Archives, 6(1).
Fiona Blackburn. (2015). The intersection between cultural competence and whiteness in libraries. In the Library with the Lead Pipe.
2014
Thorpe, K. (2014). Indigenous records: Connecting, critiquing and diversifying collections. Archives and Manuscripts, 42(2), 211–214. https://doi.org/10.1080/01576895.2014.911692
Thorpe, K., & Galassi, M. (2014). Rediscovering Indigenous Languages: The Role and Impact of Libraries and Archives in Cultural Revitalisation. Australian Academic and Research Libraries, 45(2), 81–100. https://doi.org/10.1080/00048623.2014.910858
Fiona Blackburn. (2014). An Example of Community Engagement: Libraries ACT and the ACT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities. Australian Academic and Research Libraries, 45(2), 121–138. https://doi.org/10.1080/00048623.2014.908497
Garwood-Houng, A., & Blackburn, F. (2014). The ATSILIRN Protocols: A twenty-first century guide to appropriate library services for and about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The Australian Library Journal, 63(1), 4–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/00049670.2014.890018
Nakata, M., Hamacher, D., Warren, J., Byrne, A., Pagnucco, M., Harley, R., Venugopal, S., Thorpe, K., Neville, R., & Bolt, R. (2014). Using Modern Technologies to Capture and Share Indigenous Astronomical Knowledge. Australian Academic and Research Libraries, 45(2), 101–110. https://doi.org/10.1080/00048623.2014.917786
2013
Thorpe, K. (2013). Protocols for libraries and archives in Australia: Incorporating Indigenous perspectives in the information field. IFLA WLIC 2013 – Singapore – Future Libraries: Infinite Possibilities. IFLA, Singapore. http://ifla-test.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/99/
Thorpe, K. (2013). Suzanne (Sue) Newman, 17 October 1950 – 22 October 2012: Obituary. Archives and Manuscripts, 41(1), 4–6.
Jennifer R O’Neal. (2013). Going Home: The Digital Return of Films at the National Museum of the American Indian. Museum Anthropology Review, 7(1–2), 166-.
2012
Adams, K., & Faulkhead, S. (2012). THIS IS NOT A GUIDE TO INDIGENOUS RESEARCH PARTNERSHIPS: But it could help. Information, Communication & Society, 15(7), 1016–1036. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2012.709260
McKemmish, S., Burstein, F., Faulkhead, S., Fisher, J., Gilliland, A. J., McLoughlin, I., & Wilson, R. (2012). WORKING WITH COMMUNITIES: Community partnership research in information technology, management and systems. Information, Communication & Society, 15(7), 985–990. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2012.711846
2011
Fiona Blackburn. (2011). Geeking Out: Quick and Easy Oral History. Australasian Public Libraries and Information Services, 24(1), 4–8.
Gardiner, G., McDonald, J., Byrne, A., & Thorpe, K. (2011). Respect, trust and engagement: Creating an Australian indigenous data archive. Collection Building, 30(4), 148–152. https://doi.org/10.1108/01604951111181100
Kim Anderson, Snowden Becker, Joel A Blanco-Rivera, Morgan Daniels, Shannon Faulkhead, Anne Gilliland, Amy Greer, Francesca Guerra, Tyrone Howard, Trond Jacobsen, David Kim, Allison Krebs, Andrew J Lau, Sue McKemmish, Ellen Pearlstien, R Liladhar, Ricardo Punzalan, Elizabeth Shepherd, Joanna Steele, … Vivian Wong. (2011). Educating for the Archival Multiverse. The American Archivist, 74(1), 69–101.
McKemmish, S., Faulkhead, S., & Russell, L. (2011). Distrust in the archive: Reconciling records. Archival Science, 11(3), 211–239. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-011-9153-2
2010
Fiona Blackburn. (2010). Something for everyone: Learning and learning technologies in a public library. The Australian Library Journal, 59(3), 118–126. https://doi.org/10.1080/00049670.2010.10735997
Sue McKemmish, Faulkhead, S., Iacovino, L., & Thorpe, K. (2010). Australian Indigenous knowledge and the archives: Embracing multiple ways of knowing and keeping. Archives and Manuscripts, 38(1), 27–50.
Shannon Faulkhead, Livia Iacovino, Sue McKemmish, & Kirsten Thorpe. (2010). Australian Indigenous knowledge and the archives: Embracing multiple ways of knowing and keeping. Archives and Manuscripts, 38(1), 27–50.
Ramscar, M., Yarlett, D., Dye, M., Denny, K., & Thorpe, K. (2010). The Effects of Feature‐Label‐Order and Their Implications for Symbolic Learning. Cognitive Science, 34(6), 909–957. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1551-6709.2009.01092.x
2009
Faulkhead, S. (2009). Connecting through records: Narratives of Koorie Victoria. Archives and Manuscripts, 37(2), 60–88.
Monica Galassi. (2009). Un caso Moccia?: Quando il best seller è difficilmente esportabile. Aracne. https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=FU3rWfIAAAAJ&sortby=pubdate&citation_for_view=FU3rWfIAAAAJ:UeHWp8X0CEIC
2008
Blackburn, F., & Neale, S. P. (2008). Akaltye Antheme; a Continuing Partnership. Dreaming08, ALIA Biennial Conference. https://read.alia.org.au/akaltye-antheme-continuing-partnership
Evans, J., Faulkhead, S., Manaszewicz, R., & Thorpe, K. (2012). BRIDGING COMMUNITIES: Foundations for the interchange of ideas. Information, Communication & Society, 15(7), 1055–1080. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2012.704062
Featherstone, D., Stuchbery, C., Huebner, S., Ormond-Parker, L., & Dodd, A. (n.d.). Archiving First Nations media: The race to save community media and cultural collections. 16.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00049670.2009.10735908
2007
2006
Faulkhead, S., McKemmish, S., & Ross, F. (2006). Indigenous knowledge and the archives: Designing trusted archival systems for Koorie communities [Article is based in part on a paper delivered at the joint ARANZ ASA Conference, Archives and Communities (2005: Wellington).]. Archives and Manuscripts, 34(2), 112–151.
Williams, L., Wilson, A., & Thorpe, K. (2006). Identity and access to government records: Empowering the community. [Archives relating to Aborigines.]. Archives and Manuscripts, 34(1), 8–30.
2005
Kirsten Thorpe. (2005). Indigenous knowledge and archives. Australian Academic & Research Libraries. https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=7_rgnHEAAAAJ&pagesize=80&sortby=pubdate&citation_for_view=7_rgnHEAAAAJ:d1gkVwhDpl0C
Thorpe, K. (2005). Indigenous Knowledge and Archives. Australian Academic and Research Libraries, 36(2), 179–184. https://doi.org/10.1080/00048623.2005.10721258
2004
2003
2002
2001
Sue McKemmish, Jane Bone, Joanne Evans, Frank Golding, Antonina Lewis, Gregory Rolan,
Thorpe, K. (2001). Indigenous records: How far have we come in bringing the history back home? Archives and Manuscripts, 29(2), 10–31.