SEEDS
Sharing Essential Education & Data for Sovereignty
The main purpose of this repository is to act as a “one-stop shop” for those who are interested in Indigenous Data Sovereignty and how it relates to the many areas of public health. This repository contains a curated list of resources under the following topics: Health policy, Environmental data, Health equity and social determinants of health, Health education and communication, Epidemiology, Data governance, Surveillance and outbreak response, Disease and interventions. The repository is maintained by the D4I TDR Educational Resources Working Group. If there is a resource that is not included but you think should be, please reach out to us at D4itdr@gmail.com
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Indigenous Data Sovereignty Readiness Assessment Toolkit
Lowitja Institute
Publication Dates:
No Year Listed
Content Types:
Toolkit
Walking the talk: evaluating the alignment between Australian governments’ stated principles for working in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health contexts and health evaluation practice
Luke, J.N., Ferdinand, A.S., Paradies, Y. et al. Walking the talk: evaluating the alignment between Australian governments’ stated principles for working in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health contexts and health evaluation practice. BMC Public Health 20, 1856 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09983-w
Publication Dates:
2020
Content Types:
Peer reviewed publication
Upholding our rights in research: calling for urgent investment in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research ethics
Kennedy, M. and Mohamed, J. (2023), Upholding our rights in research: calling for urgent investment in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research ethics. Med J Aust, 219: 9-11. https://doi.org/10.5694/mja2.51951
Publication Dates:
2023
Content Types:
Peer reviewed publication
The Lowitja Institute: building a national strategic research agenda to improve the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
Arabena, K. and Moodie, D. (2011), The Lowitja Institute: building a national strategic research agenda to improve the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Medical Journal of Australia, 194: 532-534. https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.2011.tb03091.x
Publication Dates:
2011
Content Types:
Peer reviewed publication
Indigenous Data Sovereignty
Tahu Kukutai The Centre for Global Knowledge Studies
Māori Data Governance Model
Kukutai, T., Campbell-Kamariera, K., Mead, A., Mikaere, K., Moses, C., Whitehead, J. & Cormack, D. (2023). Māori data governance model. Te Kāhui Raraunga.
Māori Data Sovereignty Principles
Te mana raraunga
Māori Data Audit Tool
Te mana raraunga
“Principles and Models for Data Sharing Agreements with American Indian/Alaska Native Communities”
Victoria Warren-Mears
Publication Dates:
No Year Listed
Content Types:
Unpublished publication
Barriers and Levers for the Implementation of OCAP
First Nations Information Governance Centre
Publication Dates:
2014
Content Types:
Peer reviewed publication
Identifying Useful Approaches to the Governance of Indigenous Data
Bruhn, J. (2014). Identifying Useful Approaches to the Governance of Indigenous Data. The International Indigenous Policy Journal, 5(2) . Retrieved from: http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/iipj/vol5/iss2/5
Publication Dates:
2014
Content Types:
Peer reviewed publication
Reimagining knowledge systems: The politics of data
Maui Hudson
Publication Dates:
2019
Content Types:
Presentation
Māori Data Sovereignty : Māori rights and interests in data
Maui Hudson
Publication Dates:
2018
Content Types:
Presentation
Ethics in the age of co-governance and big data: Mātauranga Māori and Indigenous Data Sovereignty
Maui Hudson
Publication Dates:
2016
Content Types:
Presentation
Māori data sovereignty, global Indigenous data alliance and CARE Principles
Maui Hudson
Publication Dates:
2019
Content Types:
Presentation
Te Mana Raraunga Wānanga Series – Operationalising Hauora
Te mana raraunga
Te Mana Raraunga Virtual Wānanga Series – Data Sovereignty and the Environment
Te mana raraunga
TMR Ngahuru Pōtiki 2023 Virtual Wānanga – Māori Data Sovereignty & the Research Data Landscape
Te Kotahi Research Institute
Whāki webinar Hepetema 2023: e-DNA Exploring Māori Data Governance & Sovereignty
Te Kotahi Research Institute
Whāki webinar Oketopa 2023 – Māori Data Sovereignty & Whānau Data
Te Kotahi Research Institute
Whāki webinar March 2022 – Whitewashing Health Data is Killing Māori
Te Kotahi Research Institute
CARE-ing for Arctic Data & Indigenous Data Sovereignty Series: Ethical Stewardship in Research
IARPC Collaborations
Learning Module: Indigenous Data Sovereignty
BC NEIHR
International Indigenous Data Sovereignty IG: Indigenous Data Governance Models
RDA Research Data Alliance
2023 Data Champions Symposium – OCAP®, First Nations Data Sovereignty, and Research Data Management
Journalology OHRI
KDD 2020: D&I: Models of Data Governance and Advancing Indigenous Genomic Data Sovereignty
Association for computing machinery
PSB 2023 Keynote – Keolu Fox “Data as Power:The Next 100 Generations of Indigenous Data Sovereignty”
PharmGKB
Tribal Data Sovereignty and the Critical Role of Data in Public health Governance
American Indian Health Commission for Washington State
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No Year Listed
Content Types:
Presentation
How Should Epidemiologists Respond to Data Genocide?
Abigail Echo-Hawk, MAa; Sofia Locklear, PhDb;Sarah McNally, MPHc; et al
Flipping data on its head: Differing conceptualisations of data and the implications for actioning Indigenous data sovereignty principles
Cunningham-Reimann, S., Doshi, A., Stutz, S., Tjong, G. B., & Mashford-Pringle, A. (2025). Flipping data on its head: Differing conceptualisations of data and the implications for actioning Indigenous data sovereignty principles. Global Public Health, 20(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2025.2450395
Publication Dates:
2025
Content Types:
Peer reviewed publication
Indigneous Data Sovereignty: Collective Rights and Responsibility
All My Relations Podcast
Info Matters Podcast | S1E7: First Nations data sovereignty
Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario
Operationalising Indigenous data sovereignty in environmental research and governance
Williamson, B., Provost, S., & Price, C. (2022). Operationalising Indigenous data sovereignty in environmental research and governance. Environment and Planning F, 2(1-2), 281-304. https://doi.org/10.1177/26349825221125496 (Original work published 2023)
Publication Dates:
2023
Content Types:
Peer reviewed publication
Indigenous Peoples and the Australian census: value, trust, and participation
Williamson, Bhiamie & Prehn, Jacob & Walter, Maggie & Lovett, Raymond & Bodkin-Andrews, Gawaian & Maher, Bobby & Mat, Vanessa & Jones, Roxanne. (2021). Indigenous Peoples and the Australian census: value, trust, and participation. Australian Population Studies. 5. 1-14. 10.37970/aps.v5i2.89.
Publication Dates:
2021
Content Types:
Peer reviewed publication
Indigenous health data and the path to healing
Walker J, Lovett R, Kukutai T, Jones C, Henry D. Indigenous health data and the path to healing. Lancet. 2017 Nov 4;390(10107):2022-2023. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32755-1. PMID: 29115232.
Publication Dates:
2023
Content Types:
Peer reviewed publication
Indigenous Data in the Covid-19 Pandemic: Straddling Erasure, Terrorism, and Sovereignty
Stephanie Russo Carroll, Desi Rodriguez-Lonebear, Randall Akee, Annita Lucchesi and Jennifer Rai Richards
Publication Dates:
2020
Content Types:
Web Article
Pandemic Strengthens Calls for Indigenous Data Sovereignty
Elle Rothermich
Publication Dates:
2021
Content Types:
Web Article
Indigenous Peoples’ Data During COVID-19: From External to Internal
Carroll SR, Akee R, Chung P, Cormack D, Kukutai T, Lovett R, Suina M, Rowe RK. Indigenous Peoples' Data During COVID-19: From External to Internal. Front Sociol. 2021 Mar 29;6:617895. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2021.617895. PMID: 33869569; PMCID: PMC8022638.
Publication Dates:
2021
Content Types:
Peer reviewed publication
Data Equity in American Indian/Alaska Native Populations: Respecting Sovereign Nations’ Right to Meaningful and Usable COVID-19 Data
Mays VM, Echo-Hawk A, Cochran SD, Akee R. Data Equity in American Indian/Alaska Native Populations: Respecting Sovereign Nations' Right to Meaningful and Usable COVID-19 Data. Am J Public Health. 2022 Oct;112(10):1416-1420. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2022.307043. PMID: 36103697; PMCID: PMC9480466.
Publication Dates:
2022
Content Types:
Peer reviewed publication
Explaining COVID-19 related mortality disparities in American Indians and Alaska Natives
Slutske, W.S., Conner, K.L., Kirsch, J.A. et al. Explaining COVID-19 related mortality disparities in American Indians and Alaska Natives. Sci Rep 13, 20974 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-48260-9
Publication Dates:
2023
Content Types:
Peer reviewed publication
Advancing American Indian & Alaska Native Data Equity
Gwynne Evans-Lomayesva, Jae June Lee, & Cara Brumfield. “Advancing American Indian & Alaska Native Data Equity: Representation in Federal Data Collections.” Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality, November 2022. Available at https://www.georgetownpoverty.org/issues/advancingamerican-indian-alaska-native-data-equity/.
GIDA-RDA COVID-19 Guidelines for Data Sharing Respecting Indigenous Data Sovereignty
RDA COVID-19 Working Group. Recommendations and Guidelines on data sharing. Research Data Alliance. 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15497/RDA00052
We cannot repeat history again: a call to action to centre indigenous leadership as we prepare for the next pandemic
Crooks, K., Ahmed, F., Liberda, E.N. et al. We cannot repeat history again: a call to action to centre indigenous leadership as we prepare for the next pandemic. Int J Equity Health 24, 24 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-025-02387-5
Publication Dates:
2025
Content Types:
Peer reviewed publication
Indigenous data sovereignty and COVID-19 data issues for American Indian and Alaska Native Tribes and populations
Aggie J. Yellow Horse & Kimberly R. Huyser, 2022. "Indigenous data sovereignty and COVID-19 data issues for American Indian and Alaska Native Tribes and populations," Journal of Population Research, Springer, vol. 39(4), pages 527-531, December.
Publication Dates:
2022
Content Types:
Web Article
Dying in Darkness: Deviations From Data Sharing Ethics in the US Public Health System and the Data Genocide of American Indian and Alaska Native Communities
Schmit CD, O’Connell MC, Shewbrooks S, Abourezk C, Cochlin FJ, Doerr M, Kum HC Dying in Darkness: Deviations From Data Sharing Ethics in the US Public Health System and the Data Genocide of American Indian and Alaska Native Communities J Med Internet Res 2025;27:e70983
Publication Dates:
2025
Content Types:
Peer reviewed publication
Indigenous Metadata Bundle Communiqué
Riley Taitingfong, Andrew Martinez, Stephanie Russo Carroll, Maui Hudson, and Jane Anderson (2023). “Indigenous Metadata Bundle Communiqué.” Collaboratory for Indigenous Data Governance, ENRICH: Equity for Indigenous Research and Innovation Coordinating Hub, and Tikanga in Technology. DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.24353743
Issues in Open Data: Indigenous Data Sovereignty.
Carroll, Stephanie, Tahu Kukutai, Maggie Walter, Oscar Luis Figueroa-Rodríguez, Jennifer D. Walker, and Per Axelsson. “Issues in Open Data: Indigenous Data Sovereignty.” In The State of Open Data: Histories and Horizons, 300–319. Cape Town and Ottawa: African Minds, IDRC, 2019. https://idrc-crdi.ca/en/books/state-open-data-histories-and-horizons.
Abundance and types of plastic pollution in surface waters in the Eastern Arctic (Inuit Nunangat) and the case for reconciliation science
Liboiron, Max, Alex Zahara, Kaitlyn Hawkins, Christina Crespo, Bárbara de Moura Neves, Vonda Wareham-Hayes, Evan Edinger, et al. “Abundance and types of plastic pollution in surface waters in the Eastern Arctic (Inuit Nunangat) and the case for reconciliation science”. Science of The Total Environment 782 (15 de agosto de 2021): 146809. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146809.
Publication Dates:
2021
Content Types:
Peer reviewed publication
Assessing determinants of maternal blood concentrations for persistent organic pollutants and metals in the eastern and western Canadian Arctic
Curren, Meredith S., Chun Lei Liang, Karelyn Davis, Kami Kandola, Janet Brewster, Mary Potyrala, y Hing Man Chan. “Assessing determinants of maternal blood concentrations for persistent organic pollutants and metals in the eastern and western Canadian Arctic”. Science of The Total Environment 527–528 (15 de septiembre de 2015): 150–58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.079.
Publication Dates:
2015
Content Types:
Peer reviewed publication
Time trends of persistent organic pollutants and heavy metals in umbilical cord blood of Inuit infants born in Nunavik (Québec, Canada) between 1994 and 2001.
Dallaire, Frédéric, Eric Dewailly, Gina Muckle, y Pierre Ayotte. “Time trends of persistent organic pollutants and heavy metals in umbilical cord blood of Inuit infants born in Nunavik (Québec, Canada) between 1994 and 2001.” Environmental Health Perspectives 111, no 13 (octubre de 2003): 1660–64. https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp.6269.
Publication Dates:
2003
Content Types:
Peer reviewed publication
Regional report on plastic pollution in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1962-2019
Max Liboiron, Nadia Duman, Alex Bond, Louis Charron, France Liboiron, Justine Ammendolia, Kaitlyn Hawkins, Emily Wells, Jessica Melvin, Natalya Dawe, Melissa Novacefski. (2020). Regional Report on plastic pollution in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1962-2019. Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR). St. John’s: Memorial University.
Review of participation of Indigenous peoples in plastics pollution governance
Liboiron, Max, and Riley Cotter. “Review of Participation of Indigenous Peoples in Plastics Pollution Governance.” Cambridge Prisms: Plastics 1 (January 2023): e16. https://doi.org/10.1017/plc.2023.16.
Publication Dates:
2023
Content Types:
Peer reviewed publication
Environmental Endocrine Disruptor Concentrations in Urine Samples from Mexican Indigenous Women
Rodríguez-Báez, Ana Socorro, Susanna Edith Medellín-Garibay, Maribel Rodríguez-Aguilar, Julia Sagahón-Azúa, Rosa del Carmen Milán-Segoviaa, and Rogelio Flores-Ramírez. “Environmental Endocrine Disruptor Concentrations in Urine Samples from Mexican Indigenous Women.” Environmental Science and Pollution Research 29, no. 25 (May 1, 2022): 38645–56. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-18197-5.
Publication Dates:
2022
Content Types:
Peer reviewed publication
The impact of toxic substances on the human rights of indigenous peoples
Special Rapporteur on toxics and human rights. “Call for Input on the Impact of Toxics on Indigenous Peoples.” Geneva: Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, 2022. https://www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for-input/2022/call-input-impact-toxics-indigenous-peoples.
SuliaKaKatigelluta: Community monitoring of plastic pollution in Nunatsiavut
Pijogge, L and Liboiron, M (2021) SuliaKaKatigelluta: Community monitoring of plastic pollution in Nunatsiavut. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLkDMVstuao (accessed 29 Jun 2025).
Cadmium Exposure and Cancer Mortality in a Prospective Cohort: The Strong Heart Study
García-Esquinas, Esther, Marina Pollan, Maria Tellez-Plaza, Kevin A. Francesconi, Walter Goessler, Eliseo Guallar, Jason G. Umans, Jeunliang Yeh, Lyle G. Best, and Ana Navas-Acien. “Cadmium Exposure and Cancer Mortality in a Prospective Cohort: The Strong Heart Study.” Environmental Health Perspectives 122, no. 4 (April 2014): 363–70. https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1306587.
Publication Dates:
2014
Content Types:
Peer reviewed publication
“Cultural and Health Implications of Fish Advisories in a Native American Community.”
Hoover, Elizabeth. “Cultural and Health Implications of Fish Advisories in a Native American Community.” Ecological Processes 2, no. 4 (March 12, 2013): 10.1186/2192-1709-2–4. https://doi.org/10.1186/2192-1709-2-4.
Publication Dates:
2013
Content Types:
Peer reviewed publication
United States and United Nations pesticide policies: Environmental violence against the Yaqui indigenous nation
Lopez-Carmen, Victor A., Timothy B. Erickson, Zara Escobar, Anpotowin Jensen, Alexandria E. Cronin, LaShyra T. Nolen, Marcos Moreno, and Amanda M. Stewart. “United States and United Nations Pesticide Policies: Environmental Violence against the Yaqui Indigenous Nation.” Lancet Regional Health - Americas 10 (April 18, 2022): 100255. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lana.2022.100255.
Publication Dates:
2022
Content Types:
Peer reviewed publication
Large-scale Environmental Monitoring by Indigenous Peoples
Jeffrey B. Luzar, Kirsten M. Silvius, Han Overman, Sean T. Giery, Jane M. Read, José M. V. Fragoso, Large-scale Environmental Monitoring by Indigenous Peoples, BioScience, Volume 61, Issue 10, October 2011, Pages 771–781, https://doi.org/10.1525/bio.2011.61.10.7
Publication Dates:
2011
Content Types:
Peer reviewed publication
“Banking On Climate Change: Fossil Fuel Report Cards 2018–2020
Indigenous Environmental Network. 2019. “Banking On Climate Change: Fossil Fuel Report Cards 2018–2020.” March 20, 2019. https://www.ienearth.org/banking-on-climate-change-fossil-fuel-report-cards/.
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