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Grounding Indigenous Rights What is Local Contexts. Local Contexts is a global initiative that supports Indigenous communities with tools that can reassert cultural authority in heritage collections and data. By focusing on Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property and Indigenous Data Sovereignty Local Contexts helps Indigenous communities repatriate knowledge and gain control over how data is collected managed displayed accessed and used in the future. Local Contexts recognizes the inherent sovereignty that Indigenous communities have over knowledge and data that comes from their lands territories and waters.