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Relational Science
by WN. Flores and Sierra Hicks
"Relational Science" is a thought-provoking podcast that delves into the intricate web of relationality in the realms of knowledge, data, information, and technology. Join PhD students WariNkwi Flores and Sierra Hicks as they engage in insightful dialogues with researchers, exploring systems of knowledge production and tackling pressing questions about our futures, pasts, and presents. New episodes are released monthly, and embark on a journey of discovery and understanding through the lens of biocomplexity systems, self-determination, sovereign praxes, and data & AI central dogma.
Episodes
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Remaking Glaciology: Indigenous Science and Biocultural Ethics
What if glaciology — a field built on “untouched” landscapes and extractive exploration — could be remade through relationality? This episode of Relational Science takes listeners into a conversation rarely heard in the geosciences: what Indigenous values can teach a discipline shaped by colonial...
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Voices from the Tribal Leaders Forum - US Indigenous Data Sovereignty Summit
What if Data Sovereignty is not a technical problem, but an over 200‑year story of return? A story of land, language, and the long arc of Indigenous occupation. That question anchors this conversation, which was recorded live at the US Indigenous Data Sovereignty & Governance Summit. WarīNkwī K....
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Part 2 of Day 3 - End of the US Indigenous Data Sovereignty Network Summit
What if IDSov coming home is a return of direction? A method? A governance framework? Over the three days on O’odham lands, that idea kept surfacing: Indigenous Data Sovereignty is not only about protecting data but also about returning responsibility to the peoples and places from which that…
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Part 1 of Day 3 - US Indigenous Data Sovereignty Network Summit
What if Indigenous Data Sovereignty is not about the data at all — but about the story? The voice? The face? The obligations that bind us to one another across generations? That question sits at the center of this conversation, recorded live from the US Indigenous Data Sovereignty & Governance...
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Part 2 of Day 2 - US Indigenous Data Sovereignty Network Summit
What if data is not a resource to be managed, but a relative to be returned home? Across the Indigenous Data Sovereignty Summit, that question kept resurfacing. In plenaries, in hallways, in unconference circles, in the quiet moments when people admitted they were exhausted because this work is...
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Part 1 of Day 2 - US Indigenous Data Sovereignty Network Summit
What if meaning is not something we discover — but something we make? And what if data, intelligence, and governance are not technical domains at all, but philosophical ones? Recorded live from the USA Indigenous Data Sovereignty & Governance Summit, this conversation turns toward the foundations...
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Day 1 Afternoon Recap — US Indigenous Data Sovereignty Summit
The sessions have ended for day 1. The room is still humming. And the conversation is only getting sharper. What happens when Indigenous Data Sovereignty becomes not just a legal framework — but a meeting place for global Indigenous experience? Recorded live from the media center of the USA...
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Day 1 Morning Recap — USA Indigenous Data Sovereignty Summit
The summit has opened its doors — and from the very first session, something is shifting. What began years ago as a passionate, aspirational movement is now becoming operational. WarīNkwī K. Flores, co-host, is joined by Cristina Ore (Andean descent, Quechua genealogy from Huancavelica, Peru, and...
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Day 0 Masterclass Debrief — USA Indigenous Data Sovereignty Summit
What if sovereignty and sustainability are not two different words — but one? In the Hawaiian language, Ea holds both. That single insight anchors this conversation, recorded live from the media center of the USA Indigenous Data Sovereignty Summit. WarīNkwī K. Flores is joined by Keolu Fox...
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Day 0 Debrief — USA Indigenous Data Sovereignty Summit 2026, Tucson, Arizona
We are on the ground at the USIDSN Indigenous Data Sovereignty & Governance Summit 2026— and before the main doors open, we gathered in the circle. Day 0 was an Indigenous-only ethical space and a spatial justice: tribal leaders, students, data stewards, and practitioners were asking the...
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Part 1: Authority & Sovereignty — Whose Data Is This?
What does it mean to have authority over your data — not just ownership, co-ownership, but the living right to say who uses it, how, and when to stop? In this first part of the episode, WarīNkwī Flores and Sierra Hicks welcome Lisa Pizzoni, founder of the Indigenous Data Authority (Aotearoa, New...
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Decoding IEEE 2890-2025 Part II: The New Global Baseline for Indigenous Data Governance
Our co-hosts, Sierra Hicks and WariNkwi Flores, continue their examination of Part II of the insights and foresights on the IEEE 2890-2025 Recommended Practice for Provenance of Indigenous Peoples' Data, focusing on sections 7.3 through 14. Their analysis explored key aspects of data creation,...
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Decoding IEEE 2890-2025 Part I: The New Global Baseline for Indigenous Data Governance
How do you validate the origin of knowledge in the age of AI and Big Data? The answer may lie in the IEEE 2890-2025 Recommended Practices for Provenance of Indigenous Peoples Data. Join our co-hosts, WariNkwi and Sierra, for a critical analysis of the first international standard that applies the...
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The Aftermath of COP30, Actions?
We yarn on the territorial and international perspectives of the so-called "COP30, the Indigenous COP" with the Post Growth Institute fellows from the UK and Brazil to discuss Indigenous participation in climate negotiations, particularly focusing on the "COP of Indigenous Peoples". The…
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Autoethnography on the (meta)data embodiment
We've embraced a temporal new path in our Data Kinship Series after a season filled with rich ceremonies, engaging conferences, and meaningful fieldwork. In this episode, we embark on an autoethnography of those transformative experiences. Nkwi and Sierra explore the ethics of capturing moments...
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Data Kinship/ Pattern Thinking (Indigenous Systems Thinking)
The Data Kinship series continues! In this episode, Nkwi and Sierra apply Indigenous autoethnography by beginning with a reflexive discussion about their positionality, intentionality, and the tension of integrity (potentiality). They then delve into what it means to learn from Indigenous…
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Data Kinship/ Appropriation
In their second episode of Relational Science, WN and Sierra launch a three-episode Data Kinship series, beginning with the topic of appropriation at a listener's request. The newly minted podcast hosts discuss the relationships and responsibilities inherent to data, how data can be appropriated,...
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"Relational Science" is a thought-provoking podcast that delves into the intricate web of relationality in the realms of knowledge, data, information, and technology. Join PhD students WariN. Flores and Sierra Hicks as they engage in insightful dialogues with researchers, exploring the dynamics,...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
"Relational Science" is a thought-provoking podcast that delves into the intricate web of relationality in the realms of knowledge, data, information, and technology. Join PhD students WariNkwi Flores and Sierra Hicks as they engage in insightful dialogues with researchers, exploring systems of knowledge production and tackling pressing questions about our futures, pasts, and presents. New episodes are released monthly, and embark on a journey of discovery and understanding through the lens of biocomplexity systems, self-determination, sovereign praxes, and data & AI central dogma.
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