Southwest Tribal Data Summit: Partnering with Southwest Indigenous Communities to Identify Data Challenges, Needs, and Opportunities

The University of Arizona’s CLIMAS program and the Native Nations Institute, in conjunction with the U.S. Indigenous Data Sovereignty Network, hosted “Supporting Tribal Data Governance for Community Resilience: A Southwest Indigenous Climate Summit” in September 2018. Participants included tribal leaders and community members, academics, private foundations, and federal government officials. This event fostered discussion about unique issues surrounding Indigenous data sovereignty, tribal data governance, and Indigenous knowledge related to climate resilience efforts within Southwest Indigenous communities.