Colleagues,
Please see the announcement below from the US Census Bureau.
Steve
The U.S. Census Bureau is hosting a 2025 Indigenous Data Sovereignty Symposium on February 12, 2025, that will showcase world-renowned Indigenous scholars and researchers to speak on the topics of Indigenous Tribal Sovereignty and Indigenous Data Governance. The Census Bureau will also inform participants on our tribal consultation practices-ensuring tribal sovereignty is recognized upfront in our work in improving the collection of tribal data, creating new data sources, and producing new data-driven research projects with tribes.
More information and registration to attend the symposium here: Census Bureau Indigenous Data Sovereignty Symposium - Splash
The morning session (10 a.m.–12 p.m.) will be moderated by Dr. Randy Akee, chair of the American Indian Studies Department at UCLA. Invited speakers include:
- Brandon Alkire – Speaking on state-tribal Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA) work and efforts in Minnesota.
- Dr. Jane Anderson – Speaking on the importance of data provenance, meta-data, and the importance of national and international standards.
- Dr. Stephanie Russo Carroll – Speaking on the governance of data and the CARE Principles.
- Dr. Lydia Jennings – Speaking on the importance of non-socioeconomic data (physical sciences data sources).
- Dr. Desi Small-Rodriguez – Speaking on the use of data in governance.
Concurrent afternoon breakout sessions will focus on socioeconomic data as well as geographic data (1–2 p.m.). Additional concurrent sessions (2–3 p.m.) will focus on tribal, federal, and state relationships as well as physical/health sciences data.
See the registration site for additional details on the agenda as well as speaker bios.
Census Bureau Indigenous Data Sovereignty Symposium - Splash
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Steve Pierson
Director of Science Policy
American Statistical Association
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