What we collect — and the lines we don’t cross.
KnowledgeKeepr draws on thousands of sources, reviewed by our research team and by specially trained AI models. We only use data that meets a strict standard — and we’re explicit about where that standard stops.
We only use data that meets a strict standard
Before anything enters a profile, it has to clear a deliberate bar.
A federally recognized Band
We only cover federally recognized Indian Act Bands. Every record we hold ties back to a specific Band in that capacity.
Governance and business roles
We deal with each Band in its governance and business activities — the work of running a Nation and doing business with it. Anything beyond that, culture especially, we treat with care and take only from what a Nation has itself made public.
Culture stays with the Nation
We don’t document culture, traditional governance or other traditional structures — except what a Nation puts forward itself in contemporary media, press releases or public band documents, or where it connects directly to band governance.
Not yet in scope
We don’t currently collect data on unrecognized bands or other non–First Nations communities. Future expansion plans include Inuit and Métis communities.
Public records, linked at the source
The backbone of KnowledgeKeepr is the mandatory public record — and we keep it where it belongs.
The bona fide public domain
Submissions to the federal government — under the FNFTA, other Indian Act provisions and similar mandatory filings — we treat as bona fide public-domain records.
We link, we don’t hoard
We don’t collect data on our own servers. We link to records that stay under the control of the federal government, bands, media and other agencies, each following its own data policy. We store only a few images — usually from government databases — to speed up downloads.
Gathered in public, held with restraint
CASL-compliant contacts
Every email is CASL-compliant and gathered from public spaces — and we don’t go looking anywhere else.
The band’s right to its own materials
Where we draw content from band websites, we recognize each band’s unlimited right to ask us to take it down.
Indigenous-owned, and protective of Indigenous IP
We hold Indigenous intellectual property to a higher standard than the law requires. We make every effort not to collect any, and we remove it wherever we find it — other than what band governments themselves produce or put forward to the media.
KnowledgeKeepr is a First Nations–owned business, built and run by band members who answer to their own communities. These standards aren’t imposed from outside — they’re the ones we hold ourselves to.
See something wrong? Tell us.
If something we’ve published about your Nation is wrong, out of date, or beyond what we should be holding, tell us. We stand behind the bona fide public record — mandatory federal filings — and material a Nation or the media has already made public. But where we’ve stepped beyond that, or where a record is inaccurate or has since changed, it’s yours to correct, restrict or remove. Anyone can raise an issue.
See the standard in action.
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