Events

Indigenous Futures: Capacity Building for Data Sovereignty in Southern Plains

Local Contexts is thrilled to join an incredible lineup at Indigenous Futures: Capacity Building for Data Sovereignty in the Great Plains, presented by the Office of Sovereign Partnerships and Indigenous Initiatives at the University of Kansas. This three-day in-person event, February 3-5, will focus on advancing Indigenous Data Sovereignty (IDSov) with a particular lens for work in the Great Plains region of the United States. Participants will gain foundational knowledge about IDSov, explore tools and strategies for returning power to communities of origin, and discuss policy and procedural recommendations to operationalize data sovereignty principles.

Session Highlight:
Digital Museum Database Management and Cultural Stewardship
Presented by Local Contexts’ Help Desk Lead Amy June Breesman (Eastern Shawnee)
Date: February 5
Time: 9 am

This session will showcase the use of the Local Contexts Labels and Notices as digital tools for improving cultural stewardship and empowering Indigenous communities.

For more details and to register, visit the event page.

Upcoming Events

Local Contexts Hub Information Session

décembre 2, 2026
, 22:00 UTC
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Do you have questions about Local Contexts or the Local Contexts Hub? Curious about how you can use the Traditional Knowledge and Biocultural Labels and Notices to support Indigenous data sovereignty and cultural authority? Sign-up for a group informational or Hub demonstration session with the Local Contexts team!

Local Contexts Hub Information Session

octobre 14, 2026
, 19:00 UTC
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Do you have questions about Local Contexts or the Local Contexts Hub? Curious about how you can use the Traditional Knowledge and Biocultural Labels and Notices to support Indigenous data sovereignty and cultural authority? Sign-up for a group informational or Hub demonstration session with the Local Contexts team!

Climate Week 2026

septembre 22, 2026 - septembre 23, 2026
, 22:30 UTC - 00:30 UTC
Event poster. “Living Data, Living Land. More-Than-Human Rights, AI, and Indigenous Data Sovereignty. Tuesday, September 22, 6:30-8:30 pm. Vanderbilt Hall, Room 218, NYU Law. Speakers: Jane Anderson, Eve Tuck (Unangax̂), Suzanne Greenlaw (Maliseet), Carlos Andrés Baquero-Díaz, Erin Robinson, Neil Davies, Maheata White Davies (Raiatea), Mililani Ganivet (Tahiti).”

Building on last year’s inaugural Living Data, Living Lands, this year’s NYC Climate Week convening will center the question that the Global Indigenous Movement has been addressing for decades: How can Indigenous communities control the AI infrastructure itself? This gathering engages AI, which, left unchecked, could extend extractive logics that absorbs material without attribution, provenance, …

ATALM 2026

septembre 21, 2026 - septembre 25, 2026
 
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The Local Contexts team will be attending and presenting at the 2026 International Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries, and Museum held September 21-25 in Spokane, Washington, United States. The team is currently slotted to present: If you plan to attend, please reach out to our outreach team (or on the Whova app) to connect! See …