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  • IEEE Recommended Practice for Provenance of Indigenous Peoples’ Data

    Looking to follow recommended practices to support the appropriate disclosure of Indigenous Peoples’ relationships and/or links to data? This publication includes information that can successfully facilitate Indigenous Peoples’ participation and collaboration, decision-making, governance and engagement in the usage of data, for current and future use. Want to know more about core parameters for providing and…

  • A Letter from your Academic Aunties

    Are you building your career as an Indigenous academic? Trying to navigate power structures within academic institutions? Twenty-two young Indigenous scholars have joined to share their advice with you. In this Letter, your Academic Aunties demonstrate ways to take common barriers and tensions that Indigenous scholars face into landscapes where joy and community are centred.…

  • Guidelines for the Governance of Indigenous People’s Data in Scholarly Publishing

    The Guidelines for the Governance of Indigenous Data in Scholarly Publishing Project Team have collaborated over years, exchanging knowledge and expertise and are ready to share this newly published work with anyone ready to implement recommendations from the Guidelines, organizations and individuals alike! If you are a publisher, journal editor, data infrastructure provider or indexer,…

  • Call for Indigenous Data Communications

    The IndigeLab Network invites researchers, artists, makers, and community storytellers to submit work for the Indigenous Data Communications Exhibit, a curated online exhibit celebrating Indigenous data shifters and re-makers. We seek works that reinterpret, reframe, and transform data through Indigenous knowledges, worldviews, and lived relationships with place. The purpose of this exhibit is to showcase…

  • IN members co-lead process to codify global standard on Indigenous Peoples’ data

    The standard, which advises scientists and professionals how to record provenance for data about and from Indigenous Peoples’ nations, communities and territories, is the first of its kind.

  • IndigeLab Network responds to threats against Indigenous data in the USA

    Through the IndigeLab Network, Indigenous researchers are moving their data out of the US, worried about the loss, theft, seizure, or privatization of their research

  • Just released! The Status of Tribes and Climate Change (STACC) Report vol. 2

    Thet STACC report eleveates the voices and efforts of Indigenous Poeples, Nations, and communities and provides and space within published literature to share our own stories about the climate change impacts we are experiencing and the solutions we are impleenting. The reports, now publishsed in two volumes, are acts of resilience and self-determination intended to…

  • In the news: “Tribes, long shut out from their own health data, fight for access and sovereignty”

    Stephanie Russo Carroll discusses how getting that data about Indigenous Peoples from the state, which houses vital statistics, is difficult — and in some cases, the data is missing. Carroll pushes for U.S. tribes — which are sovereign nations — to own and maintain control over their data, including health statistics. The concept, known as…

  • In the news: “How a UConn biology professor is affected by federal grant and DEI executive orders”

    As for long term impacts, McClellan said she worries that these changes will discourage students from pursuing a future in science.