This Brief reports on the “Tribal Leaders and Indigenous Scholars Workshop” and the “Action Planning and Forward Thinking Session” held at the Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Governance Summit convened by the US Indigenous Data Sovereignty Network (USIDSN) on the lands of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe and the homelands of the Tohono O’odham Nation in April 2024. It emerges from the Indigenous contexts, relational practices, and lived experiences of over 60 Indigenous delegates representing dozens of Indigenous Peoples, Tribal Nations, and Iwi, including Indigenous people from Aotearoa (New Zealand), Australia, Canada, Mexico, all regions in the continental United States, Alaska, Hawai’i, Guam, and Puerto Rico.

The Workshop and Summit resulted in five key strategies to advance IDSov:
1 | Establish Indigenous Core Values for Data Futures that can be adapted to guide community-specific data governance principles and strategies;
2 | Establish an “Authority to Activation Framework”;
3 | Establish a US Indigenous Data Governance Strategy;
4 | Establish an Indigenous Peoples Data Standard in the US; and
5 | Reaffirm Established Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Indigenous Data Governance approaches.

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