Indigenous Lands & Consultation

Traceable consultation. Community-managed traditional knowledge. Community data sovereignty aligned with OCAP® principles.

Referrals you can defend — knowledge you can find

When a referral lands, your team needs the deadline, the spatial context, and what your community already knows about that place — without digging through email, shared drives, and binders.

LOUIS Lands keeps consultation workflow, traditional land use archive, and map layers in one place under your community's governance — with access controls aligned to OCAP® principles.

Lands department staff reviewing consultation files and map layers

What lands teams use LOUIS for

Consultation referrals

Intake, deadlines, development review, and response tracking — with a traceable record Council and leadership can defend.

Planner →

Traditional land use & heritage

Map-based interviews and multimedia archive for traditional use sites and ecological knowledge under your access rules.

Heritage →

Spatial context

Referrals and traditional use areas on the map — with connections to external GIS layers where your community already uses them.

Spatial →
Lands staff reviewing consultation referrals against mapped traditional use areas

Heritage informs consultation

  • See traditional use sites in context when a new referral arrives

  • Draw on documented knowledge when assessing impacts

  • Track consultation costs and revenue alongside referral records

  • Maintain export and access policies leadership can defend

Data sovereignty and OCAP®

Your data stays yours

Community ownership of traditional knowledge, consultation records, and spatial layers — an archive you control, with clear export and access rules.

OCAP® principles

LOUIS supports Indigenous information governance. For First Nations, that includes OCAP® — Ownership, Control, Access, and Possession — with role-based permissions leadership can defend.

Integrated lands stack

Heritage, consultation workflow, and spatial layers in one bundle — not separate silos that never connect.

Canadian context

Duty to consult

Built for the consultation environment Indigenous communities operate in — traceable referrals and defensible records.

Canadian team

We discuss custody, subprocessors, and export requirements early — with our Canadian team.

References

Our client list is privileged information. Indigenous community references for lands and consultation are available on request.

See LOUIS for lands and consultation

Request a demo — we'll walk through referrals, traditional knowledge, or heritage with realistic examples. Training will be delivered using your data.