| ANDREW MARTINEZ (Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community), Research Coordinator, Collaboratory for Indigenous Data Governance, University of Arizona &

| RILEY TAITINGFONG (CHamoru), Postdoctoral Researcher, Native Nations Institute, University of Arizona &

| BECKETT STERNER, Associate Professor, Arizona State University School of Life Sciences Human Dimensions

As repositories, universities, and other data-holding institutions seek to implement Indigenous Data Governance (IDGov) in their settings, practical mechanisms and tools are needed to move from guiding principles to practice and policy change. The Indigenous Data Repositories Consortium was established in January 2023 to share IDGov practices in development and action in diverse settings, with a focus on the CARE Principles for IDGov (i.e., (Collective benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility, and Ethics). The Consortium membership spans seven institutions and projects housing Indigenous data associated with natural history collections, environmental research, and library archives. Drawing from on-the-ground practices and experiences in their settings, the Consortium is developing a phased framework to delineate concrete practices for CARE implementation from Phase 0, foundation-building, to Phase 5, sustainability and persistence. This panel will focus on “Phase 0: Preparing your institution,” which operationalizes the pre-work required before CARE can be meaningfully applied in any setting. Consortium members will share local examples of Phase 0 in action from identifying areas of assessment, to incorporating the Local Contexts labels and notices. Phase 0 calls on data actors across repositories to look back before moving forward, reckoning with institutionalized colonialism in their context, assessing technical infrastructure and policy and realigning systems to facilitate IDGov.