Summit 2026

Pascua Yaqui Tribe’s Casino Del Sol in Tucson, AZ

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• Asserting Cultural Sovereignty in Academia: Why Indigenous Leadership Matters

• Practical Approaches to Data Gathering & Indigenous Data Sovereignty in Economics

• We Came for Our Data, Stayed to Restore Root Access: A Firmware Update for Seven Generations

• Advancing Data Sovereignty within an Evaluation of Educational Opportunity Gaps for Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Youth

• Data, Territory, and Sovereignty: Reframing Jurisdiction and Indigenous Authority in the Digital Age

• Seeds of the Basin: Indigenous Youth Rising in the Colorado River Basin

• Indigenous Innovations for a Tribal Data Repository

• Protect Ourselves in Data: Breaking Myths and Building Strategies for Governance- A MMIW Case Study

• Safer Tools for Data Management: Aligning Digital Infrastructure with Indigenous Data Sovereignty

• Strengthening Indigenous Data Governance in Environmental Science and Engineering

• Synergizing data sovereignty and governance principles from four diverse Indigenous contexts to guide project implementation and evaluation

• The Land Area & Name Directory Project

• Completing the Data Lifecycle for Tribal Higher Education

• Diné Household Water Survey: Assessing Water Access, Water Quality, and Community Perspectives on Water in Chinle Agency and Fort Defiance Agency

• No one-size-fits-all: Research review protocols in a sample of 42 Tribal Nations

• Weaving Data Governance into Guåhan: Equipping Micronesia through Education

• LiDAR and Geospatial Data Sovereignty in Ancestral Contexts

• Advancing Tribal Data Sovereignty through Analytic Data Integration and Data Science Workflows for Small-Area Health Estimation

• From Signal to Support: Centering Indigenous Public Health Authority in Statewide Syndromic Surveillance Efforts

• Rematriation as Resistance – Ku`ono`ono Wahine Waimanalo as the wa`a!

• To Be REAL: How Indigenous Community Members Engage the CARE Data Principles

• US Federal and State Statutes Violating and/or Inhibiting Indigenous Data Sovereignty

• Evaluating Native Spirit: A culturally-grounded after-school program for American Indian adolescents

• NAFWS Tribal Mapping Analytics Project: Advancing Indigenous Data Responsibility and Sovereignty in Wildlife Corridor Mapping

• Bridging Science and Indigenous Knowledge: A Community-Owned Platform for Indigenous Environmental Data Sovereignty

• Leveraging Federal Resources to Enhance Native Wellness: Reporting on the Montana Consortium of Urban Indian Health NIH-funded NCREW Project

• Practicing Pikyav: Seven Years of Collaborative Tribal Research Initiatives

• Respecting Indigenous Data Sovereignty When Utilizing Tribally Identifiable Data Collected by Universities, Scholarship Organizations, and Healthcare Providers

• Upholding Indigenous Data Sovereignty throughout the Survey of Native Nations: A Case Study on Flexible Survey Design

• There are no shortcuts: The intersection of Tribal and academic research ethics in a clinical trial for American Indian patients diagnosed with cancer

• Data Tools for Longitudinal Understanding of Tribal Economies

• Strengthening Data Relationships through Tribal Sovereignty-Affirming Practices with Indigenous Voices and Representation at Colorado State Agencies

• From Principles to Practice: Advancing Tribal Authority to Control Data through an Indigenous Data Sovereignty Policy for the Arizona Department of Health

• Data with, Not on: A Relational Approach to Tribal Research Partnerships

• HEAPS of Knowledge: Black Women’s Positionality, Solidarity, and Liberation in Data Governance

• Launching the CARE Data Maturity Model

• Indigenous Data Sovereignty and American Archaeology: Taking Responsibility to do Better Regarding the Messy Legacy of Archaeological Datasets

• From Global to Local Protocols: Activating the CARE Data Maturity Model to University Research Policies, Archives, Libraries, and Museums through Indigenous data governance