00:00Now we can actually store, house, and keep and protect our language.
00:05Our language is one of the biggest things that most First Nations across the country are losing.
00:10For thousands of years, Indigenous peoples have passed down their traditions and culture through oral storytelling.
00:16To preserve this heritage, one Indigenous community in Canada has installed its own data center.
00:21It stores historical photos, documents, and recordings of elders speaking their native language.
00:26These items had to be collected and uploaded into a cloud first.
00:29We then realized we need a safe place to store this. Where are we going to store this data?
00:34You know, we have climate change effect in our community. We have forest fires encroaching on our territory.
00:40But it's not just about keeping data safe. It's also about who controls it.
00:44That's why the Wikwamikong community is gradually moving its information out of a Microsoft data center in Toronto and into
00:50its own facility.
00:51It's part of a bigger push for data sovereignty.
00:54Canada's Indigenous groups recognized its importance decades ago.
00:57As early as 1998, they created their own rules on data use because outsiders had often conducted research on their
01:04communities without benefiting them.
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