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Love Data Week: Where's the Indigenous Data? Reframing Data Stewardship Online
For Indigenous Peoples, data is not just information, it is a living extension of identity, land, language and community. This session explores Indigenous data sovereignty as a vital response to ongoing data extraction and management.
Participants will examine where Indigenous data currently resides, how it is managed, and what it means to return authority and stewardship to Indigenous communities. Through key frameworks such as the CARE and OCAP principles, this session reframes “Where's the Data?” as a question of power, place and relationship.
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Map the landscape of Indigenous data to understand where it currently resides (in governments, universities, private databases, and communities) and the implications of that distribution.
- Explain how Indigenous data sovereignty redefines where data should be held by emphasizing Indigenous governance, access and benefit.
- Identify actionable ways to support the ethical stewardship and repatriation of Indigenous data in our own work or institutions.
This is an online event open to all; please register to receive the link. If you have accommodation requests or questions, reach out to libevents@uwaterloo.ca with your needs.
Please note: This is the second of four workshops for Love Data Week. You do not need to attend all four; please register for each workshop separately.
Related LibGuide: Love Data Week Workshop Series
- Date:
- Tuesday, February 10, 2026
- Time:
- 1:00pm - 2:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Online:
- This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
- Audience:
- Community Members Faculty / Instructors Graduate Students Researchers Undergraduate Students Waterloo staff
- Categories:
- Workshop
Instructor
Savannah Sloat (they/she) is a member of the Tuscarora Nation and Six Nations of the Grand River. Savannah brings a unique and personal perspective to her research, focusing on the ways in which Indigenous material culture and historical narratives intersect and shape understandings of identity and heritage. Her doctoral research delves into the role of traditional objects in the preservation and transmission of Haudenosaunee cultural knowledge and the impact of colonial encounters on Haudenosaunee material culture and community memory. In addition to her research, Savannah currently works as the associate director, science Indigenous initiatives in the Faculty of Science at the University of Waterloo.
Event Support
Amy Lim is the research programs and services coordinator at the University of Waterloo Libraries. She helps coordinate workshops alongside our librarians. If you have questions about this event, please contact her at libevents@uwaterloo.ca.
Facilitator(s)
Instructor
Associate director, science Indigenous initiatives, Faculty of Science
Event Coordinator
Research Programs and Services Coordinator