La soberanía cultural indígena es el derecho de los pueblos y naciones indígenas a definir, proteger, practicar y gobernar sus valores culturales, conocimientos, tradiciones y futuros colectivos. En contextos de IA y datos, enfatiza que el significado cultural y la autoridad deben ser determinados por las propias comunidades indígenas.
This has been defined as the right of Indigenous Nations and peoples to "exercise their own norms and values instructing their collective futures... [it] is inherent in every sense of that word, and it is up to [them] to define, assert, protect, and insist upon that right" (Coffey & Tsosie, p. 196), and it is "generated from within tribal societies and [which] carries a cultural meaning consistent with those traditions [and] practices" (p. 197).