Indigenous Data Governance

Course Description

Indigenous data governance activates Indigenous Peoples' rights to manage and control the collection, application, and use of data about their people, cultures, traditions, lands, and the non- humans to which they relate. Indigenous data governance actively harnesses tribal cultures, values, principles, and mechanisms and applies them to the management and control of Indigenous data, both tribal governance of tribal data and non-tribal stewardship of Indigenous data. This course will examine (1) how Indigenous Peoples govern their data, and will use (or apply) Indigenous standards to evaluate how other data actors and stewards manage Indigenous data and (2) how other data actors and stewards manage Indigenous data. The course draws from best practices across the US and internationally, exploring policies, practices, and tools that embed Indigenous provenance, protocols, and permissions within data infrastructures. With a focus on both scholarship and tangible data governance policy and practice, students will receive hands-on training, facilitating the pragmatic use of data governance strategies that support Indigenous rights and participation across data lifecycles and ecosystems.

Code

LAW 631Z

Credits

1

Subject

Law