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.

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, and response tracking run on a workflow the community sets. Project footprints are classified by activity, time, and proponent, and follow-ups verify what was promised. Council and leadership can defend the record.

Planner →

Traditional land use & heritage

The recording, the words, and the map if they used one stay together — traditional use sites and ecological knowledge, under your access rules.

Heritage →

Spatial

Staff you assign can make maps and run analysis on data the community has loaded or linked. In LOUIS Field, they add new field data to community layers, for the surveys and field programs the community runs.

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

Heritage informs consultation

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    See impacted features, each in the context of the whole interview it came from

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    View the type, or the written detail, for the knowledge on that land

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    Track consultation costs and revenue alongside referral records

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    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.

Referral, knowledge, and map

Heritage, consultation workflow, and spatial layers in one bundle. The referral, the knowledge, and the map stay together.

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 a realistic referral and the interview an impacted feature came from. Training will be delivered using your data.