Practicing Indigenous Data Sovereignty On and Off Picuris Pueblo Lands

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Collaborative Archaeology at Picuris Pueblo: The New History" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Over the past decade, a growing number of archaeological projects in North America have incorporated community-based participatory research (CBPR) methods. For Indigenous communities, this collaborative paradigm marks an extension of a more global body of anti-colonial activism and policymaking oriented around Indigenous sovereignty. In recognizing the inherent right of Native Nations to self-determination and governance, the framework of Indigenous data sovereignty offers a more radical reenvisioning of existing power dynamics around data collection, curation, and dissemination. In this talk, I situate the Picuris Pueblo Archaeological Research Project within a data sovereignty paradigm, drawing particular attention to the ways that our collaboration has shifted the locus of jurisdictional authority over archaeological data toward the Picuris Governor and Tribal Council. Throughout this discussion, I will highlight two major challenges in the application of the ethical principles of data sovereignty: differences in how sovereignty is enacted on and off-reservation lands and tensions around how to define benefits for a diverse group of community members and project participants.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Collaborative Archaeology at Picuris Pueblo: The New History   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 38364.0