| CORINA QAAĠRAQ KRAMER (enrolled in the Native Village of Kotzebue), Rematriation Project Partner, Director of Operations at Aqqaluk Trust &

| CANA ULUAK ITCHUAQIYAQ (enrolled in the Noorvik Native Community), Rematriation Project Partner, Assistant Professor of Professional and Technical Writing at Virginia Tech &

| CHRIS LINDGREN, Rematriation Project Partner, Assistant Professor of Technical Communication at Virginia Tech &

| KARA LONG, Rematriation Project Partner, Coordinator for Metadata Technologies in the University Libraries at Virginia Tech &

| ANDI OGIER, Rematriation Project Partner, Assistant Dean and Director, Data Services in the University Libraries at Virginia Tech &

| DYLAN PAISAQ CROSBY (enrolled in the Noorvik Native Community), Aqqaluk Trust Staff

Directed by tribal organization, Aqqaluk Trust (Kotzebue, Alaska), the Rematriation Project empowers Inuit communities by developing a model of Indigenous data and research sovereignty to collect, control, interpret, and benefit from data that originates from their communities. In partnership with a team of scholars from Virginia Tech (itself led by an Iñupiaq scholar from Kotzebue)— the goal of this project is to create capacity for and access to digital archives related to Inuit cultural, tribal, history, and scientific knowledges to build localized, culturally appropriate approaches and solutions to their self-determined needs.
 
In response to the Summit’s goals, partners will share their developing governance strategies to redress the unjust power dynamics between universities and Indigenous communities. Specifically, they will discuss the team’s cultural humility framework that operates as a pre-condition for socially just, decolonial research and data practices. They use the Inuit cultural practice of nalukataq as a metaphor to present CH’s four parts: listening to the caller, setting your feet, pulling equally, and staying in sync. Partners will share how the CH framework has helped them develop data management plans and literacies about the impacts of sharing their knowledges, how to develop culturally appropriate metadata, and ensuring that the interoperability of the data centers IDSov principles, such as CARE (GIDA, 2023). They wish to explore how CH can guide the future coalitional direction of Indigenous data governance.