Love Data Week: Where's the Indigenous Data? Reframing Data Stewardship

For Indigenous Peoples, data is not just information, it is a living extension of identity, land, language and community. This session explores Indigenous data sovereignty as a vital response to ongoing data extraction and management.

Participants will examine where Indigenous data currently resides, how it is managed, and what it means to return authority and stewardship to Indigenous communities. Through key frameworks such as the CARE and OCAP principles, this session reframes “Where's the Data?” as a question of power, place and relationship.

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Map the landscape of Indigenous data to understand where it currently resides (in governments, universities, private databases, and communities) and the implications of that distribution.
• Explain how Indigenous data sovereignty redefines where data should be held by emphasizing Indigenous governance, access and benefit.
• Identify actionable ways to support the ethical stewardship and repatriation of Indigenous data in our own work or institutions.

This event is hosted online.