Another area of interest I have is Indigenous Data Sovereignty. Using blockchain to ensure that sensitive information reaches the intended audience has the potential to alleviate many concerns that different Indigenous groups may have in regards to recording and documenting culturally sensitive information. Indigenous people may be more willing to record and disseminate culturally sensitive information digitally if there were secure options to do so. For example, the Plains Apache family that Prins (2002) had worked with were reluctant to film the ritual of the medicine bundle as they deemed it too sensitive to be recorded. If blockchain was an available technology at the time, the Plains Apache family may have felt more secure about recording that culturally sensitive ceremony if they knew that it would only be viewed by an audience they were comfortable sharing it with.
Prins, Harald E.L., “Visual Media and the Primitivist Perplex: Colonial Fantasies, Indigenous Imagination, and Advocacy in North America,” in Media Worlds: Anthropology on a New Terrain, eds. Faye D. Ginsburg, Lila Abu-Lughod, and Brian Larkin, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002, 58- 74.