My efforts to network around environmental data science (EDS) during the 2020s have put me in touch with several talented Indigenous data scientists who are teaching me much about Data Sovereignty, Traditional Knowledge, and how we might better collaborate in the future to heal the planet. I am curious about how these new conversations and collaborations will evolve my thinking and contributions.
- Data Sovereignty Course Project
- Organizations and Communities
- Talks and Events
- Papers and Resources
- Additional Material
My Events
- Exploring Data Sovereignty and the Sovereign Data Network 13-15 Feb 2024
- ESIIL Innovation Summit 14-16 May 2024
- UW Earth Partnership Native Education Pathways Workshop 24-28 Jun 2024
Organizations and Communities
This list is primarily about Indigenous data science, but includes other links pertinent to EDS and climate change. For instance, Digital Mappa is a system to network maps and ancient scrolls/texts, which could be quite useful for organizing sovereign documents. 350 and Project DrawDown are global efforts to address climate change, growing connections with Indigenous communities.
- 350 and 350 WI
- American Indian Science and Engineering Society
- Digital Mappa
- Enrich Hub
- Environmental Data Science Innovation & Inclusion Lab (ESIIL)
- First Nations Principles of OCAP®
- Geoscience Alliance
- Global Indigenous Data Alliance (GIDA)
- Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission (GLIFWC)
- Great Lakes Integrated Sciences And Assessments (GLISA)
- Indigenous Climate Resilience Network
- IndigiData
- Training the Next Generation of Indigenous Data Scientists (2021 NY Times)
- Using data to bring power, autonomy to Indigenous communities (OSU College of Arts and Sciences)
- Indigenous scientists exchange knowledge at local workshop (NW Treaty Tribes)
- Situating IndigiData and Dark Laboratory (Aydelotte)
- Indigidata For the Next Seven Generations (YouTube)
- IndigiData Aotearoa
- Local Contexts
- Nagoya Protocol-Convention on Biological Diversity
- National Conference of American Indians
- Native American and Indigenous Microbiologists (Amer Soc Microbiology)
- Native Land Digital Map
- Native Languages of the Americas
- Native Nations Institute (NNI)
- Phenological Initiatives for INdigenous Peoples in Limnology (PhIN)
- PLoS on Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Open Data
- Project DrawDown
- Revive & Restore
- Rising Voices: Workshops & Activities
- Seven Generation Inter-Tribal Leadership Summit (LCOOU 29-30 Sep 2022)
- Status of Tribes and Climate Change Report (STACC)
- Summer internship for INdigenous peoples in Genomics (SING)
- Te Mana Raraunga, Māori Data Sovereignty Network
- Traditional Lifeways and Storytelling–Tools for Adaptation and Resilience to Ecosystem Change
- Tribal Climate Adaptation Menu
- Tribal Exchange Network (TXG)
- UCAR Indigenous data sovereignty & Earth System Sciences
- US Indigenous Data Sovereignty Network
- UW-Madison
Data Sovereignty Talks and Events
- ESIIL Innovation Summit (annual in May) & ESIIL Hackathon (annual in Oct/Nov)
- Food sovereignty, Native knowledge-keeping part of Indigenous Peoples Day events (8-11 Oct 2023, CU Boulder)
- ADSA Panel: Community-Centered Benefit Sharing and New Data Equities (9 Feb 2022)
- Video Recording
- Keolu Fox (University of California, San Diego) - Moderator
- Latifa Jackson (Howard University)
- Kaja Wasik (Variant Bio)
- Ann McCartney (National Institutes of Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bioinformatics)
- Krystal Tsosie (Native BioData Consortium, Arizona State University)
- Rising Voices Panel: NOAA Environmental Data Talks - Speaker Series Data, Diversity, and Disaster October 16, 2020
- Workshop on International Law, the United Nations Declarations of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Indigenous Data Sovereignty, 11-12 July, 2019
- Webinar on ethical use of indigenous data
- Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Tribal Nation Implications for Addressing the Federal Evidence-Based Policy Making Act of 2018. Nicole Bowman. Feb 2021. CRRR Webinar 3.31.21 Final.pdf
- Indigenous Data Sovereignty–How Scientists and Researchers can Empower Data Governance. Lydia Jennings. NCEAS Seminar Series: Advancing Ecology and Environmental Data Science for a More Just and Equitable Future. 7 April 2021. Poster
- Operationalising Be FAIR and CARE. 3 Apr 2020
- Implementing the CARE Principles: The CARE-full Process. 29 Jan 2021
Wisconsin
- Sara Smith (18 Apr 2023, WI Academy) Traditional Perspectives and Tribal Resilience (video)
- Robin Wall Kimmerer on “To the Best of Our Knowledge” (30 Mar 2022 1pm)
- Madison Library Takeover: Thrival Tools Event (26 Feb 2022 6-8:30pm)
- Owning Our Past (Grace Church, Madison)
- 7 Feb-1 May 2022 zoom meetings
- Onondaga Nation and Senator Daniel Inouye
- Returning Home: Three Oneida Children Find a Final Resting Place – StoryCorps
- UW Earth Partnership IAS Webinar Series
- Good Relatives? 2018 Federal Evidence-Based Policy Making Act and Implications for Tribal and Academic Research Partnerships. Nicole Bowman, 31 Mar 2021
- Culturally Responsive Research Relationships. Nicole Bowman, 12 Oct 2020
Tribes
- Bad River
- Ho Chunk
- Lakota
- Lakota Nation vs United States (movie)
- Oceti Sakawin Nation
- 120 Years of Lakota History on Calendar (Smithsonian)
- Why ancient calendars still rule the world (Nature) (movie)
- Calendars Then and Now (Lakota Times)
- Lakota Seasons & Moon Phases
- Jhon Goes in Center Collection Spotlight (Ralph T Coe Center)
- JhonDuane Goes in Center 101 Show 2020 (Brinton Museum)
- Menominee
- David RM Beck (2002) Siege & Survival. U NE Press
- Ada Deer, Native American Voice Inside Government and Out, Dies at 88 - The New York Times
- Jennifer K Gauthier (13 Mar 2023, CESA) Mamaceqtawak: The Movers Strengthening Community Connections to Menominee Ways of Well-Being
- Kemāmaceqtaq: Harvest of the Moon
- Menominee Theoretical Model of Sustainability
- Reynold “Renny”” Katchenago, Menominee mural artist
- Nicholas Perloff (1982) Menominee DRUMS. U OK Press
- Menominee Tribe (YouTube)
- Menominee sturgeon
Data Sovereignty Papers and Resources
- Megan Bang, Ananda Marin and Douglas Medin (2018) If Indigenous Peoples Stand with the Sciences, Will Scientists Stand with Us? In issue on Unfolding Futures: Indigenous Ways of Knowing for the Twenty-First Century. Daedalus , Spring 147(2): 148-159.
- Moroni Benally (2018) Moroni for President (cooptation in collaborative settings)
- Alan Blatecky, Damian Clarke, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Deborah Dent, Rebecca Hipp, Ana Hunsinger, Al Kuslikis, Lauren Michael (2021 NSF OAC) The Missing Millions
- William J Blizek, Rory J Conces (1996) Ethics and Sovereignty. Philosophy Faculty Publications 11.
- ethics, like politics, is a matter for each nation to decide for itself
- ethics reaches beyond sovereignty to right or wrong, independently of what people of any nation claim
- Stephanie Russo Carroll, Edit Herczog, Maui Hudson, Keith Russell, Shelley Stall (2021) Operationalizing the CARE and FAIR Principles for Indigenous data futures. Nature 8: 108.
- Stephanie Russo Carroll, Desi Rodriguez-Lonebear, Andrew Martinez (2019) Indigenous Data Governance: Strategies from United States Native Nations. Data Science J 18: 1-15
- Stephanie Russo Carroll, Desi Rodriguez-Lonebear, Andrew Martinez (2017?) Indigenous Data Sovereignty in the United States: Policy Brief
- Tim Davies, Stephen B Walker, Mor Rubinstein, Fernando Perini (eds) (2019 Cape Town and Ottawa) State of Open Data: Histories and Horizons
- Sarah Dickson-Hoyle, Ronald E Ignace, Marianne B Ignace, Shannon M Hagerman, Lori D Daniels, Kelsey Copes-Gerbitz (2021) Walking on two legs: a pathway of Indigenous restoration and reconciliation in fire-adapted landscapes
- Tahu Kukutai, John Taylor (2016) Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Toward an Agenda. Australia: Australian National U Press
- Sarah de Leeuw (2017 Can Fam Physician) Putting calls into action
- Ray Lovett, Vanessa Lee, Tahu Kukutai, Stephanie Carroll Rainie, Jennifer Walker. 2019. Good Data Practices for Indigenous Data Sovereignty, in Angela Daly, Kate Devitt, & Monique Mann (Eds.), Good Data, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures Inc. ISBN 978-94-92302-27-4.
- Peter R Martin (2023) The ‘deer-men’ and the ‘bowhead-men’: The colonial co-optation of Arctic Indigenous knowledge within the ‘origins of the Inuit’ debates. Trans Inst British Geographers 49: 312615
- Chidi Oguamanam (2020) Indigenous Peoples, Data Sovereignty, and Self-Determination: Current Realities and Imperatives. African J Information and Communication 26
- Erica AH Smithwick, Chris Caldwell et al. (2019) Learning About Forest Futures Under Climate Change Through Transdisciplinary Collaboration Across Traditional and Western Knowledge Systems. Springer.
- Kath Traynor (2017) Data Management Plan: Empowering Indigenous Peoples and Knowledge Systems Related to Climate Change and Intellectual Property Rights. Research Ideas and Outcomes 3: e15111.
- Sarah Trembath (2024) Decoloniality
- Susan Tussy (2021 GLOBUS) State Of the Craft in Research Data Management (discusses sovereignty)
- Maggie Walter, Tahu Kukutai, Stephanie Russo Carroll, Desi Rodriguez-Lonebear (2020) Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Policy. 1st ed. Routledge, 244p.
- Victoria Warren-Mears (n.d.) Principles and Models for Data Sharing Agreements with American Indian/Alaska Native Communities. Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board Tribal Epidemiology Center.
Geospatial
- Earth Science Information Partners Telecons
- An Introduction to Remote Sensing for Tribal Lands (NASA Applied Sciences)
- Geoscience Alliance
- Laura Matson et al. (2021) Transforming research and relationships through collaborative tribal-university partnerships on Manoomin (wild rice). Environmental Science & Policy 115, pp 108-115.
- Diana M Dalbotten, Emi Ito, Susan Eriksson, Holly Pellerin, Lowana Greensky, Courtney Kowalczak, Antony Berthelote (2017) Gidakiimanaanawigamig’s Circle of Learning: A Model for Partnership between Tribal Community and Research University. International Journal of Partnership Studies, Vol. 4(3)
- Steven Semken (2018) Sense of Place and Place-Based Introductory Geoscience Teaching for American Indian and Alaska Native Undergraduates. Geoscience Education 53: 149-157.
- Natalie C Ban, Alejandro Frid, Mike Reid, Barry Edgar, Danielle Shaw, Peter Siwallace (2018) Incorporate Indigenous perspectives for impactful research and effective management. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2: 1680-1683
Genome Sovereignty
- Paul Robbins, Hilary Habeck Hunt, Francisco Pelegri, Jonathan Gilbert (2023 Frontiers of Conservation Science) Sovereign genes: wildlife conservation, genetic preservation, and Indigenous data sovereignty
- Scientists Unveil a More Diverse Human Genome (2023 New York Times) (see last few paragraphs)
Land-Grab Universities
- Aaron Bird Bear 7 Apr 2022: Cornell, Ohio State and UC-Berkeley have all hosted academic series in the last two years about the intersections of the universities and their financing tied to the dispossession of Native Nations “typically by brute force, coercion, trickery, deception, and lopsided treaties.”
- Robert Lee, Tristan Ahtone (2020 High Country News)Land-grab universities
- Stephen M Gavazzi, John N Low (2022 AAUP) Confronting the Wealth Transfer from Tribal Nations That Established Land-Grant Universities. AAUP’s Academe magazine
- Hayden Royster (2022 Cal Mag) This Land is Their Land
Wisconsin
- About The Ways – PBS Wisconsin Education
- Don’t Just Teach About Cultures—Teach Culturally. Here’s the Difference (David J O’Connor)
- Erik Ness (2023 Isthmus) We’re in our forever home
- UW Press - : Spirits of Earth: The Effigy Mound Landscape of Madison and the Four Lakes, Robert A. Birmingham