Practicing Pikyav: A Guiding Policy for Collaborative Projects and Research Initiatives with the Karuk Tribe

This document was created by the Karuk Tribe to set the terms for communication, informed consent, and mutually agreed-upon expectations in collaborative research or other project initiatives with external institutions or individuals who are willing to collaborate with the tribe. Practicing Pikyav can be used as a guide if your community is working on developing its own guiding policy to protect its traditional cultural property, intellectual property, and self-determination interests. This document was provided by Lisa Hillman, Karuk Food Security Project Coordinator, during her session on protocols and agreements at the 2015 ATALM pre-conference workshop sponsored by the Sustainable Heritage Network titled "Developing Tools to Navigate Intellectual Property and Protect Cultural Heritage," held in Washington DC on September 10, 2015.