ALL 2026 SESSIONS

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

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• Understanding the energy and environmental impacts of data centers on Tribal Lands

• Nurturing Plants Project: Co-creating and Advancing a Sustainable Diné Way of Life Through a Diné Hydroponic Project

• Sequencing Soil, Seeding Sovereignty: Building Place-Based Biotech in Community Spaces

• Firekeepers Initiative: Archival Data Sovereignty through Indigenous Memory Keeping

• A Discussion on Governing Data via Tribal Institutional Review Boards

• The Uke’ Contracting System: A Legal Intervention Tool for Indigenous Knowledge Governance

• Project KIAI and Science Fiction Methods: Storying a AI Data Governance and Data Trust System to Protect Indigenous Knowledge and Empower Communities

• Hydrocircuitry: Environmentally-Sound Data Storage Systems

• Implications of environmental data collection on Tribal lands

• Protecting Tribal Knowledge in a Digital Age

• Developing Indigenous Research Methodologies and Ethics for Human-Computer Interaction Social Media Research: Integrating Insights from Tribal Research Review Boards with Community-Engaged Research on Digital Health Content

• Practicing CARE compliance with queryable databases

• Anishinaabe Data Sovereignty and Governance at Work in Three Fires Homelands

• Data Sovereignty in Native Education: Emerging Insights, Community-Governed Dashboards, and Pathways Forward

• Regulating Relationality: Indigenous Data in Hawai’i Environmental Rulemaking

• Data and Tribal Economies: Securing Our Future Through Sovereignty

• Enhancing Sovereignty through Education Policy: Key Insights & Recommendations from Native Higher Education Discussions

• Operationalizing Data-Sovereign Infrastructures: The SRJ File Format as a Relational Prototype for Indigenous Governance in Digital Systems

• Data Governance among Five Urban Indian Organizations in Montana

• Using Remote Sensing to Support Indigenous Sovereignty and Climate Resilience in Los Angeles

• Data for Action: Redefining Tribal Consultation

• Where the waters meet: Building collective strategy and tools for resilient data futures across our island territories and ancestral lands

• Tribal Colleges & Universities Decolonizing Data Visualization For Campus Data Literacy

• Te Mana Whakatipu – Māori Data Analytics Building Programme & Initiatives

• The Status of California Native American Tribal GIS and GIS Data Sovereignty Model

• Rethinking Western Concepts of “Data”, “Sovereignty”, and “Rights”

• Data to Protect and Remember: The Northern Cheyenne COVID Project

• Genomic Data Collection in Biodiversity: Analyzing practices, values and guidelines

• Data Res Nullius: The Doctrine of Discovery in the Age of AI

• Supporting Indigenous Provenance and Authority with Traditional Knowledge and Biocultural Labels

• Infrastructure to Address Relational Accountability: Supporting Indigenous Data Needs

• Tribal Technology Assessment Tools

• Partnership in Practice: Co-Designed Methods for Indigenous Data Infrastructure

• CARE in Practice: How the National Native Scholarship Providers’ Collaborative Research Advances Indigenous Student Success

• Empowerment of Micronesian communities through genomics education and data sovereignty awareness

• Establishing Data Sovereignty Protocols in a Rapidly Evolving AI Ecosystem

• From Removal to Return: Digital Tools for Ahtna Knowledge, Care, and ContinuitySipnuuk.karuk.us: Karuk Time and Memory within A Tribal Digital ArchiveFrom Removal to Return: Digital Tools for Ahtna Knowledge, Care, and Continuity

• From Removal to Return: Digital Tools for Ahtna Knowledge, Care, and Continuity

• Assessing the persistence and ecological effects of an engineered autotroph on an agricultural soil microbiome

• Memory and Resistance Laboratory

• NW Tribal Data Hub: Returning data to Tribal Communities

• Integrating Indigenous Data Sovereignty into Academic Plant Biocollections

• Making Kin with the (biological)Machines

• Indigenous Data Alliance

• The Indigenous Data Sovereignty Framework for Tribal College Institutional Research: Translating the CARE Principles into Practice for the Tribal College System

• Insights and lessons learned from a data sovereignty project among Urban Indian Organizations in Montana

• From Footage to Frameworks: M’bêngôkre-Kayapó Media Sovereignty and Protocol Co-Creation

• Leading with CARE: Building Indigenous Data Infrastructure and Governance Across Alaska

• From Story to Sequence: Bridging multiple knowledge systems for community led species conservation

• Systematization of the Survey Modification Process Through Sequential Exploratory Mixed Method

• Enshrining Relations: Developing the IEEE Standard for the Provenance of Indigenous Peoples’ Data

• Reflections and storysharing on participatory approaches for strengthening Indigenous data stewardship protocols in rural contexts

• Using the Data Equity Framework to live the CARE Principles in Data Projects

• Early Steps Toward Institutional Accountability: Addressing Geology’s Legacy in Indigenous Communities

• A Community Effort: Publishing Guidelines for Indigenous Data Sovereignty and CARE Principle

• IDSov/Gov Promoting Successful Actions in Relationship with NAGPRA

• Shared Narratives, Shared Power: Amplifying Perspectives and Practices for Indigenous Data Sovereignty in Journalism and Media

• NCREW: Advancing Tribally-Led Research on Substance Use and Wellbeing

• Are we telling stories in a good way? Transforming interdisciplinary research through CARE

• Respectful and Equitable Approaches to Research and Data Management: Applying CARE Principles to Crow Canyon Archaeological Center’s Legacy Data

• Indigenous Data Sovereignty at Archaeology Southwest

• Publishing for the Next Seven Generations: Utilizing an Indigenous Framework and Process to Secure a Decolonized Author Agreement and Publication with Oxford University Press

• Beyond Borders: UNDRIP as a Complement to Tribal Jurisdiction in the Governance of Research with Indigenous Peoples in the US

• 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