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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Come see us! This year’s Tribal Leaders Summit at UTTC in Bismarck portends to be one of the most well attended and inspiring!

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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The Indigenous Data Sovereignty Movement cannot be stopped. In 2024, we submitted or worked on innovative decentralized grants with the Venter Institute, 100& Change with Stanford & African Nations &D4I TDR These ideas of secure, decolonized data sharing are spreading like wildfire. See here.

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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

NativeBio is a leader in the Indigenous Data Sovereignty movement. We are agnostic to data and samples because we have to be. They are coming for everything. Everything that's left. We want to be a Safe Harbor and are a Safe Harbor. nativebio.org

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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

NativeBio was invited to speak at the Genomics Standards Consortium in Aotearoa & give a lecture at the University of Otago. Co-Learning w/ our Indigenous relatives worldwide is necessary for alliances that are cultural, spiritual, political and financial. We hope that we furthered that worthy goal.

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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

NativeBio is proud to share the news! Executive Director, Joe Yracheta will be a featured speaker at the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos & Native Americans in Science in Long Beach, CA October 29th thru the 31st, 2026 sacnas-19842608.hs-sites-na2.com/2026plenarys...

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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Summer Internship for Indigenous Peoples in Genomics 2026 -SING USA doing our Sunday meditation session. Portends to be a great week (save for the smoke from Canada. Condolences and good thoughts for our First Nations & Metis relatives).

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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

NativeBio attended SING Canada, participated in discussions with the Canada's Genome experts, and Krystal Tsosie was the keynote at the MILA Indigenous AI Conference!

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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The Data Landscape (wild wild west) is on Fire right now. We are available to help with DNA, medical record data, environmental data and a whole lot more. Please, if you are indigenous, private, public or Tribal government, reach out. We will try and give you the best advice we can.

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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Great for NativeBio to consult with @fnigc.bsky.social , Assembly of First Nations representatives, Taylor Morriseau from First Nations Health and Social Secretariat of Manitoba & Genome Canada this week at the wonderful Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health about Indigenous control of DNA samples!

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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

A few slides from a Gold Lab Symposium Presentation. Many realized it was a travesty of justice and asked how to solve the problem. Naming the problem, creating the right ethos, and having the Scientists and Researchers who carry out the work to stand up to govt. funders and companies is the key.

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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

2/2 and the #SecondEraOfDiscovery (extraction) of Indigenous spaces. It's an unprecedented and likely lethal time for Natives, once again. The pull of digitization seems inevitable; therefore, nothing is safe. Not language, not voting records, not foster care, not medical records and not your DNA.

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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

1/2 If any of you have heard the story about Sue, the most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton ever found, you may understand this post Sue was found on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation. Tribes and Indigenous people have to realize that this was just the first volley in a dangerous war of data

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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Native Bio is in Florida with the wonderful Dr. Yael Bensoussan. Such a powerful force for medicine, tech and the new law and ethics that needs to be created in this AI/ML wild west. She's fantastic. Look her up.

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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Our work with Bridge2AI and AIREADI has been so rewarding. We are honored to work with such high level academics and thought leaders in the AI space. We were happy to host the AIREADI Teaming, Data Tools and Data Collection Primary Investigators in the hashtag#CheyenneRiverSiouxNation

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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

The US Indigenous Data Sovereignty Network, Data Warriors Lab, Collaboratory for Indigenous Data Governance, all under the Indigenous Data Alliance and their conference was a rousing success. Listen to just a taste of Indigenous Revival with Sierra and WariNkwi! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

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.

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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

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.

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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

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

The strong academic and Indigenous women of the Indigenous data alliance

No one cares about stealing Indigenous data because its this kind of data that is the low hanging fruit for exploitation by the markets

Sing Micronesia t shirt, blue with white writing, pictures of sailboats

Banner for Project on Indigenous Governance and Development at Harvard.

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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

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.

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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

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...

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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

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!

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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

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...

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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

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!

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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

@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!

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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Thanks for last week @pjmfdn.bsky.social and your mission/vision messaging. We look forward to more.

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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Native BioData Consortium is heading to Boston to Abundant Futures / Live this MONDAY, Nov. 11. Still time to join us ONLINE for FREE. Must register here: events.modelofarchitecture.org/abundantfutu....

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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Please join NativeBio with MASS Design Group this MONDAY, Nov. 10 live online for conversations with some of the most inspiring thinkers today. FREE! #Innovation #built environment #culture #Indigenous #Inspriration events.massdesigngroup.org/abundantfutu...

Please join NativeBio with MASS Design Group this MONDAY, Nov. 10 for conversations with some of the most inspiring thinkers today. FREE!

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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

2/2 Talks are Friday at 1:45 pm Room B131-142 and at 4pm in room B131-132.

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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

1/2 SACNAS 2025 Columbus, Ohio we are in you!! Come talk to the team about anything you see below! Dr. Matt Anderson from UWisconsin, Dr. Krystal Tsosie from ASU, & many more Indigenous Thinkers for #IDSov in our famous "Network of Networks". We have been blazing a trail & not stopping anytime soon!

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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

NativeBio had the great honor to provide a Keynote presentation on Indigenous Data Sovereignty #IDsov, our network of networks and our work in the human biomedical genome space. We feel it was very well received & thank the University of Idaho for the ethical/moral path of honoring Tribes' wishes.

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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Join us at Abundant Futures, November 10th hosted by MASS Design Group. NativeBio is launching fundraising for a new research campus on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation! events.massdesigngroup.org/abundantfutu...

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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

We were honored to be part of this first discussion between Tribes and researchers in Wisconsin. We learned a lot about forest, water and land conservation in this unique and abundant space

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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

NativeBio and @d4itdr.bsky.social made history! We were well attended, well interrogated, well mannered and all kinds of well loved! Hey @geneticssociety.bsky.social you should really pay attention.

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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

We see the Beautiful Artwork of American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES). We hope they appreciate the artwork and #IDSov work of Native BioData Consortium

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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

This is just in, Joseph Yracheta has been invited to be the keynote speaker at the University of Idaho's Biennial Tribal Summit. The title of his talk will be the "Data and Tribal Economies: Securing Our Cultural Future Through Sovereignty"

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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Indigenous Data Sovereignty is so important it's on everyone's lips at #AISES! Even the Cheyenne River Sioux Nation Chairman was up on stage talking about the future of research, data control, sovereignty & economics! I also met the famous Muscogee Geneticist, Dr. John Burnett! #IDSOV is survival.

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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Native Bio and their project (and partners) @d4itdr.bsky.social knocking it out of the park #AISES Dr. Kali Dale, Rebecca Dickinson (both Ojibwe) and Sakiah Perez (Borikua) demonstrating how our vision of a National Tribal Data Repository would work!

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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

The week of September 4th, Native Bio was at the Assembly of First Nations gathering in Winnipeg. With the D2R program and FNIGC, we discussed the importance of supporting sovereign Indigenous-led research #IndigenousResearch #AFNWinnipeg #AssemblyOfFirstNations #CulturalSafety #IndigenousLeadership

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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

NativeBio is so happy to be introduced to new Native scholars. Please check out these messages about the Strength of Women, their power to shape the next 7 generations through children & culture & the ideas about healing & the Western traps of poverty and get-rich-quick schemes. #DontSellWhatsSacred

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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Such a sad memory but important to remember. Cannot believe such a strong, intelligent and hardworking warrior was taken from us so early. Miss you dearly. The Fight for Indigenous Data Sovereignty continues #IDSOV. Thank you Nikki Ducheneaux

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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

2/2 Many Tribes across Turtle Island have followed CRST's lead & benefitted from their strong legal skills. They fought for ICWA, Indian Gaming, Tax reparations, Water Rights (NoDAPL) & COVID Protections (check points). They are also the home to Native Bio & @d4itdr.bsky.social It's beautiful here.

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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

1/2 Do you know about the Cheyenne River Sioux? They are inconspicuously famous and strong Warriors for all of Indian Country. They are the home of the Sacred Pipe. Central to the stories of both Wounded Knee events. Responsible for keeping tradition alive with the annual Ride to Wounded Knee.

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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

2/2 Researchers have become a threat to Indigenous Peoples and their Traditions. From IMDB, "Explores tradition, colonialism, property, faith, & science, seen through labor practices that connect an endangered salamander, mass-produced apples, & the evolving fields of genomics and machine learning."

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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

1/2 Just finished watching a great presentation from Marzyeh Ghassemi at our weekly NIH Common Fund Bridge2AI meeting. She talked about the importance of training ML/AI models on local and population specific data. She also mentioned thinking of more sophisticated ways of fixing the problems rather

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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

There's no time for in-fighting. We've been shown their vision of a dystopian techno-future. It's not fair to us & not safe. Corporations have long kept their info private, now the U.S. is worried about Data Sovereignty. We should be too. #IDsov the time is now! No Techno-Cultural disappearance!

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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

July 10th, today NativeBio is at the beautiful River Spirit Casino in Tulsa, Oklahoma with the 5 Civilized Tribes. Come by and see us on the 3rd floor.

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