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For many Indigenous communities, traditional ceremonies, art, and handicrafts are more than just performances or decorations.

They record history, connect the community, and help young people understand their own culture.

However, outside businesses often turn these cultures into tools for making money.

For example, wedding companies package traditional processions, music, dance, and food as tourism services, while removing their meanings of mutual help, gift-giving, and returning gifts.

Fashion companies may also directly use Indigenous fabric patterns without stating where they come from or paying the creators.

As a result, culture that originally belongs to the whole community seems to become a company's private commodity.

To protect tradition, some Indigenous weavers are asking for legal recognition that patterns, colors, symbols, and weaving methods are knowledge jointly owned by the community and cannot be freely sold or claimed by others.

Protecting these rights does not mean stopping cultural exchange. It means asking users to respect the cultural source, recognize the people who create and pass on the culture, and include them in related decisions.