DATA CENTER COMING SOON!

Develop a statutory process  to review, govern, maintain, and house all research, collection, database, or publication undertaken within the Turtle Mountain Community. To maintain data relevant to TMBCI and all subsidiaries.

• We need to establish our own benchmarks.
• We want and need change in our community.
• We need increased communication.
• We need to work toward a set of common goals.

• To protect the people, culture, and natural resources of the Tribe and the Tribe's future generations from unauthorized scientific research;
• To reduce any adverse effects of human subject research and related activities on the Tribe and its People;
• To ensure that researchers recognize the Tribe’s control of research activities and ownership of all data and information generated or produced by such research; and
• To establish and provide a statutory basis for a process to review and govern any research, collection, database, or publication undertaken on the Reservation.

•  Data
  • Research database
  • Demographic Information
  • Data sovereignty
  • Data protection
• Better understanding of our community and the needs of our community.
• Educated and informed community
• Increase in communication across the community, stakeholders, and constituents. 
• Stronger decision making.
• Improved planning.
• Targeted resources
• Overall improvement in our people, resources, and finances.
• Respect for research

•  When collecting data please always have respect for the community, the people, their culture, and their lands;
• Tribal/Reservation communities have qualified individuals available to help you understand the data needs, reach out to them;
• If you collect the data, do something with the data.
  • inform policy, 
  • inform leaders, 
  • Inform the community.