ROUND TABLE 6 | DAY 1 | 10:45am-11:45am | BALLROOM J

| KIM R. MARION SUISEEYA, Associate Professor, Northwestern University

| JOSIAH HESTER (Kānaka Maoli), Associate Professor, Northwestern University

| JEFF FENG, Postdoctoral Scholar, Georgia Tech

The STRONG Manoomin Collective responds to climate change threats to Manoomin (wild rice) across Ojibwe Nations by generating data from the Ojibwe Four Orders: the physical world, the plant world, the animal world, and the human world. We are, in turn, implementing climate resilience infrastructure by translating the data into usable systems, indicators, or frameworks of cyberinfrastructure, political resilience and governance, and community capacity-building. At the Summit, we will share our approach to working across sensing, environmental, and social data, and decolonizing research through reflections on creating data sovereignty agreements with Ojibwe Nations. We feature case studies from creating and signing memoranda of understanding (MOUs) between the STRONG Manoomin Collective and the Lac du Flambeau, Bad River, Fond du Lac, and Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe Nations. We describe the relationship-building, processes, and challenges throughout the creation, feedback, and signing of MOUs and our treatment of these documents as living and ongoing practices of data sovereignty. We also speak to the generative conversations and challenges of expanding what counts as “data,” within a collective of scholars across disciplines and members who are non-Native and Native. Finally, we provide preliminary findings on the ways that procedural justice and data sovereignty facilitate better outcomes in climate resilience.