True Tracks: Respecting Indigenous Knowledge and Culture

True Tracks is a groundbreaking work that paves the way for respectful and ethical engagement with Indigenous cultures. Using real-world cases and personal stories, award-winning Meriam/Wuthathi lawyer Dr Terri Janke draws on twenty years of professional experience to inform and inspire people working across many industries – from art and architecture, to film and publishing, dance, science and tourism.

What Indigenous materials and knowledge are you using? How will your project affect and involve Indigenous communities? Are you sharing your profits with those communities?

True Tracks helps answer these questions and many more, and provides invaluable guidelines that enable Indigenous peoples to actively practise, manage and strengthen their cultural life.

If we keep our tracks true, Indigenous culture and knowledge can benefit everyone and empower future generations.

• Shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2022: Indigenous Writers’ Prize

About the Author

Dr Terri Janke is a Wuthathi/Meriam Indigenous author and lawyer. She is considered a leading international authority on Indigenous cultural and intellectual property.

Janke is the Solicitor Director of Terri Janke and Company, her wholly Indigenous-owned legal firm founded in 2000. Terri Janke and Company specialises in Indigenous intellectual property, Indigenous cultural and intellectual property and business law, and is the largest and oldest Indigenous law firm in Australia.

Janke has served on the boards of many Indigenous and non-Indigenous organisations and associations, with some of her previous positions including the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence (Deputy Chair),Tourism Australia, National Indigenous Television (Chair) and Ngalaya Indigenous Lawyers Association (Chair), as well as at the State Library of NSW. Terri is also a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and LEADR Mediators.

In 2019, Janke completed a PhD thesis at the Australian National University. In 2011, Janke was named the NAIDOC Indigenous Person of the Year, and was invited by the Prime Minister in April 2008 to be a delegate at the Australia 2020 Summit.