Future Generation Collaborative
Native Data Transparency
Lifting up data sovereignty in the PNW Native community.
A collaborative, culturally driven, collective impact project on data sovereignty in the PNW Native community. Developing an accessible, iterative, and culturally specific data transparency toolkit for capacity and power building.
“When we think about data, and how it’s been gathered, is that, from marginalized communities, it was never gathered to help or serve us. It was primarily done to show the deficits in our communities, to show where there are gaps. And it’s always done from a deficit-based framework….
What they don’t talk about is the strengths of our community. What we know, particularly for [I]ndigenous people, is that there was a genocide and assimilation policies and termination policies that were perpetuated against us. If they had worked, we wouldn’t be here. And so we were always strength-based people, who passed on and continued knowledge systems regardless of people who tried to destroy us.
As [I]ndigenous peoples, we have always been gatherers of data…”
Abigail Echo-Hawk, Seattle Urban Indian Health Institute (Secaira, 2019)