Native Biodata Consortium

Monitoring COVID-19 and Building Capacity with Northern Plains Tribes and the Future of Pandemics. The Native BioData Consortium is partnering with its research partners to develop itself to be a Infectious disease testing center immunological research hub and data storage and security facility to support the northern plains tribal public health monitoring and response efforts.

s a one-week 4-6 days Indigenous data science education workshop held each summer to introduce data science and informatics skills to undergraduate and graduate students. We offer an Indigenous-centered curriculum that is led by a community of Indigenous data scientists and guest faculty. All of our workshop activities will center Indigenous data sovereignty and data ethics while also providing students valuable insight into the emerging data and technology career fields.

Study of Autoimmune Illness with the Lakota : SAIL 1 and 2. This is a study of rheumatoid arthritis from samples collected from Cheyenne River Sioux people since 2012. This includes the storage and analysis of these samples.

Oceti Sakowin Winyan Woglakapi TO PRESERVE A WAY OF LIFE WE HAVE TO SPEAK IT. This plan aimed to restore social dynamics of kinship structures pre-contact for women of the Oceti Sakowin Seven Council Fires by reuniting generations of women from the Lakota Nakota Dakota of the Oyate Omniciye Oceti Sakowin Oyate Gathering of elder women and men from each band of the Seven Council Fires Pits. The plan provided a 4-week virtual platform engaging in esoteric ingenuities in support of Woksape knowledge-sharing approach reteaching women their inalienable social cultural and spiritual characteristic roles within their respective nations.

We at the NBDC advocate for justice- and equity-centered approaches towards ensuring that Indigenous communities have sovereignty over their health data. To support data sovereignties that center the co-creation of tribal digital health systems and solutions we seek to understand the complex ethical legal and cultural domains related to AI ML integration into Indigenous communities. This requires development of legal policies by legal experts with feedback provided by tribal leaders. We seek to provide a conference where experts can meet and present their findings.

Administration provides front office support to help NBDC achieve its mission.

Fundraising activities include paying business development consultants to champion NBDC. As well as attending conferences and printing marketing material for NBDC.