No, no, I don't have any slide, I'm just gonna talk. Okay, so thank you everyone. As you know, my name is Dr Tracy Morris, and I'm a citizen of Chickasaw, Nation of Oklahoma. I'm gonna attempt to do this early. This is early for me to do a presentation, so forgive me if I sound worse or tired. It is hard for me to function at this time of day, other than do an email. So for those of you who don't know me, I'm the executive director of the American Indian policy institute at Arizona State University, and I've been in that position since 2014 and I'm also a research professor at the Sandra Day O'Connor college of law, which these Institute, a IPI is centered in, and my area of specialty since, like 2009 research and publication has all been tribal broadband, digital sovereignty, digital divide, Digital Equity, Digital Inclusion. Of course, all those things had different names early on, but we didn't call it digital sovereignty back then, either. I've I wrote the first study on internet use in Indian country with Sasha mein rat out of New America Foundation back in the day, and in 2019 I co i co authored a IPIs tribal Technology Assessment, which was the an original study of tribal access, use and availability in 2019 so it came out literally two months, three months before the pandemic. So it's the only original baseline data. It's a small study, but it's original baseline data from pre pandemic. So got new life because of that, unfortunately and Currently, I'm working on a book on the topic of tribal digital sovereignty. I'm an author and a co editor. Theoretically, it was supposed to be out this year, but there's just been too much work going on. So it looks like it's gonna be 2026 I'm talking to my publisher today, and number of folks are writing chapters for that, including myself, Jeffrey Blackwell, Sasha, mein Rath, some professors at the university. EJ has authored a chapter in that as well, which is currently the only finished chapter. Thanks. EJ, thought I'd give you a shout out. So I'm gonna give you a brief overview of our work today and let you know what's going on. You know, I started when I started researching this book on tribal digital sovereignty was much more about crossing the digital divide. But when I started looking globally at what was happening and trying to define what data sovereignty was, was within all this, because there's been quite a groundswell in tribes on data sovereignty, and then I started coming across this term digital sovereignty, especially with the EU and I started researching all that, and then looking at how the global south was using the term digital sovereignty, how the EU uses it in other European countries. And it sort of clicked for me at that point that I wasn't talking about, I didn't need to talk about the digital divide from a deficit model. We could talk about tribal broadband and all of the ancillary related things the ecosystem in terms of a proactive model. And so that's where the term tribal digital sovereignty came from. It's a growth outgrowth out of the global digital sovereignty discussions, and it just changed everything. Hello. Oh, sorry, I'm sorry not me. Lou, so that was that was really an epiphany moment, and it really changed the scope of the book, and it really changed things. And I started looking at how we could talk about the whole ecosystem. Of tribal digital sovereignty. And out of that we we decided to launch a center under the institute dedicated to tribal digital sovereignty. And so we formed it in partnership with the National Congress of American Indians. And in we launched we we launched it. We formed it last year in February, but we launched it formally in July. And so that's kind of where this concept came from, you know, it just, you know, the digital divide is, is so is so narrow, and it's so, you know, negative. And then the work that we're doing, you know, the other thing was, is, you know, we all know it we're out there one day we're talking about broadband, one day we're talking about infrastructure, another day we're talking about equity. I felt like there needed a way to be able to for tribes, to be able to comprehensively talk about this. So that's kind of where that discussion came from. So indigenous digital sovereignty is really the overarching broad term. It's like an umbrella term, so it encompasses everything, network sovereignty, data sovereignty, infrastructure, and it really is the means it's it's really looking at a community's policies and codes that control the data infrastructure and networks. And data sovereignty is a component of that a very important component, but it is not the overarching term. So digital sovereignty is really governance and regulatory and such. So in June, the same week, we launched the Center for tribal digital sovereignty with the National Congress of American Indians, the NCAI adopted a resolution defining tribal digital sovereignty as an exercise of self determination, which was which really meant to create by doing that, the NCAI is a representative body of many of the triad the federally recognized tribes in the United States, certainly not all of them, but it does tend to coalesce through a resolution process, the coalesce consensus and use that for advocacy. So that's the natural place where something like this becomes common vernacular. And it really has become that in a short period of time, it's really, it's, it's really cool to see my term coming back and use them the right way, because we needed something that was that encompassing. So it's really exciting to watch. So they defined it in a resolution, through a resolution and committee process last summer. And it really is. Digital sovereignty is all aspects of a tribal nations digital plan, its footprint, it's tribal codes, it's how it manages data protection. It's how it manages Digital Equity, network infrastructure, development of funding sources, education, you know, public safety, law enforcement, economic and community development and capacity building. It is all the things that we all talk about, you all talked about, that you all are doing just in the US. We don't tend to call it digital sovereignty. That's we just don't call it that is all it is. But in tribes, we are starting to do and it really is. This resolution is meant to support the exercise of sovereignty over the physical infrastructure and the non physical digital space. And so it's, it's seen as a part of tribes creating a plan for comprehensive, proactive digital sovereignty as an act of governance and self determination. So it's it's really exciting. We're still in the very much in the beginning stages, and tribes are just starting to develop their plans. There's some that are actually being very proactive, and every every tribe just says every tribe is no one, no one size fits all. It's going to be that in digital sovereignty plans, what we're really seeing a push for that's emerged to the top quickly is the idea of the creation of regulatory codes and structures so that tribes can control not only the data that comes through their networks, but they're controlling the data that their communities are producing. And it's, it's not really a leap, because, I mean, if it's a if they are a gaming tribe, they're already doing that on the gaming side. It's more a matter of thinking, how do we do that proactively, on our tribal entity side on our government, government, government side. So we've had a lot of asks for the creation of model codes for governance. Some communities are looking at building regulatory bodies. We're seeing discussions of sovereign tribal clouds that are based where the where the we all know the cloud is based somewhere, but where the infrastructure is actually physically based on tribal land. So they can, they can enforce the kind of data sovereignty that community wants to. So in launching the center, we're still, still very much in our infancy. We have, we have the we're building four tranches for the center, our center. We're doing research and scholarship, of course, because we're the university, we're doing capacity building.