He tohu kei roto — Primary motif match
Te taura here — The rhizome mapper
Two modes: Network — explore 105+ real indigenous movements across Oceania, South America, Aotearoa, North America, Africa, Europe and globally as a live force map. Event Mapper — paste a political event, get a Māori motif and a ready-to-post social caption.
Active campaigns connecting indigenous data sovereignty, land rights, and resistance to digital colonialism — from Standing Rock to Pacific data governance.
The legal and ethical frameworks underpinning indigenous data sovereignty and AI rights globally.
UNDRIP
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Articles 3, 18, 19, 31, and 32 directly protect indigenous data and AI rights — including self-determination, participation in decisions affecting them, FPIC, and the right to maintain and control their cultural heritage and traditional knowledge.
CARE Principles
Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility, Ethics. Developed by the Global Indigenous Data Alliance as a complement to FAIR data principles — ensuring indigenous data governance is people- and purpose-oriented.
OCAP® Principles
Ownership, Control, Access, Possession. Developed by the First Nations Information Governance Centre; the foundational framework for First Nations data sovereignty in Canada. Registered trademark of the Assembly of First Nations.
Te Mana Raraunga Charter
Six principles for Māori data sovereignty: Rangatiratanga (authority), Whakapapa (relationships), Whanaungatanga (obligations), Kotahitanga (collective benefit), Manaakitanga (reciprocity), Kaitiakitanga (guardianship). First charter of its kind in Aotearoa.
Local Contexts TK Labels
Traditional Knowledge (TK) and Biocultural (BC) Labels for digital assets. Community-generated labels that provide indigenous communities with a mechanism to communicate cultural protocols for use of traditional knowledge and data in digital environments.
UNDRIP Article 31
Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain, protect and develop their cultural heritage, traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions — including human and genetic resources, seeds, medicines, knowledge of flora and fauna, oral traditions, literatures, designs, sports and traditional games, and visual and performing arts.
Ngā rauemi pāpāho — Social media toolkit
Share the mapper link to spread awareness of the global indigenous sovereignty network. Use the ready-made hashtag sets below for each region, or copy the link to a specific org's page. The full social media kit (posters, motif cards, sticker sheets) is available at index.html.
Māori · Aotearoa
Pacific / Pasefika / Gagana Sāmoa
South America / Amazônia
North America / Turtle Island
Global / Ōrite / Opaite Yvy / Lalolagi
Click any node in the map above → click ✍ Generate post → in the detail panel to create a post in your chosen language with that org's hashtags.
Ngā kete whakaako — Teaching kits
Full PDF teaching kits covering the motif bank, meme library, course modules, social media strategy, and rhizome mapper instructions — one kit per language. Each kit is stored on Cloudflare R2 for fast global access.
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Describe or paste a political event — a bill, a decision, a speech, a protest.
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Tag the themes you see — sovereignty, extraction, resistance, collective action.
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The mapper scores all 6 Māori motifs and finds the deepest match.
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Get a bilingual draft post for X, Instagram, Facebook, or TikTok — ready in seconds.
Ngā kaupeka — Themes you see in this event
He tohu kei roto — Primary motif match
He whakamārama — Why this motif
Tuhituhi pāpāho — Draft social post
Pick a platform. Edit the bracketed text. Copy. Post within minutes of the news breaking.
Replace [EVENT], [SOURCE], and [LINK] before posting.
Ngā rauemi — Download matching assets