Innovative Practices

Towards a New Indigenous Praxis of Open

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Abstract

This article focuses on the Chicana por mi Raza (CPMR) digital memory collective as a unique resource that collects imperiled histories of Chicana feminisms. The author uses the radical praxis of their archive as a comparison and departure point for emerging practices in open. Open as a discipline is indebted to Women of Color feminisms, and practitioners of open should strive to acknowledge these roots more formally in their work (Seiferle-Valencia, 2020). This article implicitly builds upon this concept while directly troubling what it means for settler-created concepts like Traditional Knowledge Labels. The article concludes with how CPMRs work to develop their own protocols, built upon the needs of our multifaceted and dispersed Indigenous community and aligning with work emerging from Indigenous thinkers like Kayla Lar-Son, as well as how a particular history in the CPMR archive highlights work happening in Detroit in the 1970s around community education. 

Keywords: Chicana Feminisms, Traditional Knowledge Labels, Critical Digital Archiving, Cultural Digital Heritage Praxis, Community Archives, Copyleft Practices

How to Cite:

Seiferle-Valencia, M., (2026) “Towards a New Indigenous Praxis of Open”, Journal of Open Educational Resources in Higher Education 4(1), 36–52. doi: https://doi.org/10.31274/joerhe.24662