A sticker handed out by the Urban Indian Health Institute to attendees at the 2025 National Tribal Health Conference in Phoenix draws attention to the lack of data available for Indigenous people. (Courtesy/Jourdan Bennett-Begaye, ICT)

This story was originally published by ICT.

WASHINGTON — Even in the fight to decolonize data, Abigail Echo-Hawk thinks about how she’s counted, whether that’s on a census form, in the doctor’s office or for a survey. 

She’s a citizen…