Come down to Tucson for the record breaking, world changing, planet saving & smartest conference in the history of Earth. Learn how Indigenous people have been building their unique vision for our collective future! CRST Chairman LeBeau will be the new USIDSN advocate nativebio.org/id-summit-20...

1/3 I predicted this in 1999. Because the looming threat of two things 1) Whites would be in the minority by 2035 2) the millions of remnant Indigenous populations in Latin America who we escalating their rebellions since Allende/Pinochet. Not only are they terribly afraid of Amerindigenous

Indigenous Data Sovereignty & Control seems to have shifted, lately. It seems all the bad actors over the last year and 1/2 have hipped all the Good PEOPLE to the danger. Dr. Fox, Dale & Yracheta are fantastic scientists; grounded in their communities. The war is waging, even if you cannot see it.

Recently, NativeBio was at Harvard University. We got to dovetail with the work MASS Design also does with Harvard. We met with Katie Swenson. Here, she is wearing a NativeBio's Wokiksuye (We Remember MMIP and Boarding School relatives) T-Shirt designed by Tammy Granados, an artist from CRST.

2/4 2) and I still remember back in 2015 when many South Dakota news outlets continued to repeat false information about tribal refugias for the disease rather than correctly placing the blame on fracking/ mining camps and the Air Force Base in Box Elder.

4/4 AND why Native Bio can be there as a CLIA lab and data storage facility for tribes. Because many RED STATES are more worried about their racism towards First Americans instead of the safety of their own citizens via Public health and epidemiology!

3/4 Luckily, myself and other Native health workers (such as Great Plains Tribal Epidemiology Center and Dr. Meghan O'Connell) were diligent to make the authorities and news outlets comply in the right way! This is exactly why Indigenous Data Sovereignty is so important for Tribes and

1/4 This story is from four months ago. I’m glad to hear about the improvement in tribal health. But there’s two things that still sting : 1) early on, the public health departments of North & South Dakota were notoriously & infamously uncooperative with tribes

Giving Tuesday is over....but we'd like to encourage new fans and social impact investors to look us up. We thank all of you who have already donated. Don't forget we have a Donor Advised Fund (DAF) button on our webpage. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c21y...

Such a great meeting and convivial experience with empowerment as the goal. At Harvard University with Randall Akee (Kanaka Maoli) new Director. The strong smart women of IDA are amazing. See them here: lnkd.in/gVxycZJG Also a shout out to SING Micronesia. Great shirt! www.uog.edu/singmicro

If you are a Native undergraduate student, graduate student, a PhD, an MD student/ practitioner you need to understand the Big Data Landscape that seeks to make BioProperty out of your past, present & future relatives without providing better services, economic benefit or even acknowledgement.

The NIH has done a terrible, almost criminal job working with Indigenous people. Because of this they get miserably low Tribal participation, so they propose stealing data through a different data silo.

It will more likely be another extraction of a valuable resource. But this differs because it combines a n issue like gold or lithium with Native children in boarding schools or foster care. Deeply rooted in economic, politics and cultural identity !!!!

Please watch and attend the Q & A. To me this will be a travesty of justice and compound the 534 years of injustice for Amerindigenous people in OUR hemisphere for an unlikely compendium of benefits.

This is good. Learn, know, act! Our 534 year genocides and deportations in our ancestral places of origin have no “Anne Frank”, no “Emmit Till”. No one cares when we die because our deaths are required for you to flourish

Our Indigenous Data Sovereignty Friends in the USA, Mexico & Canada are being silenced. Why? Because data is money. DNA is money. Surveillance (biometrics) is money & weaponry. These settler countries believe we are an asset, 1 of the most valuable assets, their bioproperty! Tell them they are wrong

Coming soon, April 2026 in Tucson at the Casino Del Sol. Register now. It portends to be a fun time, a strategic time and a highly scholarly (Settler Research meets Indigenous Knowledge) and how to make Indigenous Data Work for Improving Native lives. NOW! Not 20-50 years from now.

They have many, if not all the videos up on YouTube. @nativebio.bsky.social thanks MASS and Abundant Futures for their beautiful work. www.architects.org/events/90420...

📣 SING USA 2026 applications are open! The Summer Internship for Indigenous Peoples in Genomics (SING) workshop will be July 19–24, 2026 at UW–Madison. ⏰ Apply by March 13 (midnight Hawaiʻi time) Learn more & apply: sing.nativebio.net Please share with Indigenous students! #Indigenous #Genomics

If you know a Native student, an elected official, a community member or a professional that works for Tribal economies and cultural safety, then please send them the link below. They won't regret it.

Have you heard of the groundbreaking, world changing Summer Internship for (and by) Indigenous Peoples in Genomics (SING)? One of the root organizations for Indigenous Data Sovereignty. Deadline for applications is next Friday, March 13th, 2026. Check out the details here! sing.nativebio.net

Tribal leaders, Tribal attorneys, and Indian Country Journalists in the lower 48, Alaska, Pacific and Caribbean islands need to read and understand that your individual and collective data is under severe threat. legalnewsfeed.com/2025/08/08/t...

We have a new webpage and new features (lots and lots) please go check out our Newsroom page. We will have regular updates to what we are doing at NativeBio nativebio.org/newsroom

There's also this one www.bonfire.com/idsov/?produ...

The IDSov movement is becoming increasingly well known. Here I present a world renowned chemist and pharma lawyer wearing my face as evidence!

remember, if its free, it means your data is for sale. what implications does this mean for communities fighting mining projects, pipeline projects, etc. when LLMs can perform attacks that would not have previously been possible, due to the lack of structured data or features.

Important for Tribal sovereignty in so many areas. But especially data collected with "altruistic intent" such as health research data and environmental monitoring data. These "soft" policy venues are also "soft targets" for bad actors. arxiv.org/html/2602.16...

Tribes need to read these documents and ensure skimming by companies like Epic aren't happening, for any reason (and they can craft many). www.hhs.gov/programs/top...

If you are Tribal Nation or Tribal Leader, please watch this. It has never been a more important time to know about National & International law/policy over data and intellectual property. Listen to this Spotify about the International IEEE Indigenous Data Standard. open.spotify.com/episode/0ugg...

Hey All, Check this out if you can. In addition to the Keynotes, Dr. Tuck and WashPo journalist Dana Hedgpeth, NativeBio will also be presenting! Sounds like it's gonna be a hot time in the old town, that night!

US Tribes should begin looking outside the USA for frameworks that will protect data and resources in today's dangerous economic landscape that has been enhanced with weaponized AI. ukdataservice.ac.uk/help/secure-...

Look up CODATA approaches for Data Visitation and higher protections of DATA SHARING under the multipolar world and AI platforms weaponized against the common person. codata.org/initiatives/...

Here's an oldie but a goodie. NativeBio was honored to be on @nativenewsonline.bsky.social with Levi Rickert. Here we talked about the importance of Indigenous Data Sovereignty & planning for the next pandemic and functional Public Health departments in Indian Country www.youtube.com/watch?v=79fA...

Please watch, learn and enjoy this three member panel presentation about “Gettin’ free!” ELSI research is a poor proxy for freedom or equity (as you will see in these presentations). I am honored and proud to be on stage with @Kim TallBear and Elizabeth ‘Betsy’ Nelson. elsihub.org/video/octobe...

From Pandora to the Amazon, Indigenous Leadership Is Protecting Life on Earth ->Amazon Watch | More on "Indigenous leadership protecting the Amazon" at BigEarthData.ai | #earth #indigenous

3/3 Here is a brief history, but lots of pieces are missing, especially the "Data Theft" that had happened before the first shovel of dirt was hoisted. In our current Big Data & Artificial Intelligence environment, your resources are at even greater risk! Look at this article about Sewer Water risks

2/3 Traditional Knowledge without you even being aware. There are companies and groups that have lived on your reservations for 30 years eroding your sovereignty and giving your data to others. Look at the T-Rex case in the Cheyenne River Sioux Nation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkP-...

1/3 Dear Tribal Leaders, data is so important. It is the new oil, gold, cattle, corn/soybeans. But now its personal. It has the ability to cast you in a badlight, sue you for not being "American", declassify you as Indigenous, & take your Intellectual Property www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkP-...

Thanks so much to the @pjmfdn.bsky.social McGovern Foundation We are grateful for their help and ongoing partnership for all the important things we have to do in Indian Country! Read their blog on how they are helping people become empowered by AI here: medium.com/patrick-j-mc...

Honestly, though NativeBio is internationally known, we've had trouble getting the message out on the Northern Plains. Bad Actors know this & this makes them ripe for data exploitation (see Sue T Rex vs CRST story). This young Oglala scholar says it all the correct way. Read, listen, investigate!

Hello #NCAI, NativeBio, in May 2022, sponsored SENAHD at University of North Carolina. The information sorely needed and provided to SouthEast Tribal Nations is and was part of the Indigenous Data Sovereignty Movement. #IDSov. Please take a look. uncch.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Page...

Dear Tribal Leaders and tribal associates at #NationalCongressOfAmericanIndians given all the legal changes around data, it’s in our interests to speak to each other while in DC

Hello National Congress of American Indians. @nativebio.bsky.social are with you in DC to explain the project below and the dangers around your data made possible by the Wild West of Artificial Intelligence

@nytimes.com shut the Comments section down to soon. Here's a sample. Smart people defended us. Others wanted to know how to support. Look up Donor-Advised Funds (DAFs). We have that and other ways to financially support us! Tell your favorite Philanthropist about us! We are righteous and visionary!

The NYTs comment section for our feature yesterday got so heated, they shut it down immediately. However, people want to donate to #IDSov. Here’s ours: www.bonfire.com/store/native... donorbox.org/help-to-empo... www.bonfire.com/store/native... Here’s the movement’s indigenousdata.org nativegov.org

Our current funding stream for the D4I Tribal Data Repository project has ended. The last two years have been momentous as our multi-site collaboration has created the first federally funded repository framework and cyberinfrastructure for Indigenous communities by Indigenous teams. (1/4)

As part of our mission to build educational capacity for Tribal communities, we will not deactivate our social media accounts as we hope our YouTube videos, SEEDs database, and website will continue to educate. These are linked below: (3/4)

Youtube: youtube.com/@D4ITDR SEEDS: d4itdr.org/seeds/ D4I website: d4itdr.org Email: [email protected] We are actively applying for funding to continue this impactful work (4/4)

NYT Told it in the 3rd (he built) person but there were many of us fighting this fight across 7 institutions, including our Great GREAT PARTNERS Stanford University and all of our Indigenous colleagues and allies at OSU, UW Seattle, UW Madison, UC Santa Cruz, ASU and the Tribes in RADx UP