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Abigail Echo-Hawk is tired of working with data sets that erase urban Indigenous people. Echo-Hawk, who is a citizen of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma, is the executive vice-chair at the Seattle Indian Health Board and director of the board’s Urban Indian Health Institute. She regularly combs through large data sets from county, state or federal governments that weren’t collected with Indigenous people in mind or simply don’t count them at all. That’s why it’s important that Indigenous communities gather their own data…