Indigenous approaches to organizing knowledge remain underrepresented in mainstream LIS scholarship. This also implicitly situates projects like AIATSIS or Māori Subject Headings as important but not fully transferable models, reinforcing the urgency for North American frameworks grounded in local cultural contexts.

There is tension at the heart of decolonizing knowledge organization between the need to balance standardization with cultural specificity. This suggests that resolving this tension might require moving away from “one-size-fits-all” models altogether, and toward systems that are flexible, plural, and community-sensitive.