Why Indigenous people are fighting for data sovereignty

Indigenous data sovereignty means that communities have control over their own information, researcher says.That's why it's important that Indigenous communities gather their own data, in their own way, says Echo-Hawk, who is a citizen of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma. This is Indigenous data sovereignty. "As individual nations … we have the ability to govern our own data. That means how it is gathered, how it is analyzed and how it is shared," Echo-Hawk told Unreserved host Rosanna Deerchild.

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