WHAT IS ALREADY KNOWN ON THIS TOPIC Ethical publishing protocols are often missing, but are required to minimise harms and promote ethical research.
Indigenous diversity: nations, languages and knowledges Indigenous peoples represent great diversity.
Coloniality fundamentally, and continually, undermines Indigenous sovereign interests and rights of Indigenous peoples.
Ethical research and publication protocols are required to better support and ideally ensure ethical publishing practices.52 Upholding ethical standards and accountability to Indigenous peoples can help address the power imbalance which has resulted from colonisation and coloniality.
Ethical standards acknowledge Indigenous rights must be upheld and that there must be ethical approval(s) and application of ethical processes.

Ethical publishing in ‘Indigenous’ contexts