Ara Irititja exemplifies how Indigenous ontologies are reshaping the technologies of information and cultural heritage management. A project that began in 1994 with the digital repatriation of photographs, oral histories, film recordings, and documents to remote communities in Central Australia, Ara Irititja is transitioning from an object-based FileMaker Pro database into a multimedia knowledge management system. In this article, I build on two years of anthropological fieldwork to interrogate three tools of knowledge preservation and transmission often taken for granted and/or presumed neutral — databases, archives, and the Internet—to argue that they can and must be actively re-worked as contemporary Aboriginal people imagine, produce, and safeguard their own cultural futures.1
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