Native Entity Connector Crosswalk
Sources of information focused on Native communities, governments, and other concepts are often difficult to connect to one another. Datasets often refer to Native entities in slightly different ways, making linkages challenging across scattered sources. Various information systems include only selected subsets of Native entities and typically do not reflect distinctive relationships among peoples, governance structures, and geographies.
This disconnected data landscape can make it daunting and time-intensive for analysts, researchers, students, and others working in Indian Country to explore their own research questions—especially when those questions involve links between data sources or over time.
To make the connections that will support more streamlined data work in Indian Country, CICD offers the Native Entity Connector Crosswalk. The crosswalk is built on an expansive and growing system of unique identifiers for government-recognized Native entities. This new system of identifiers is designed to be human-readable, comprehensive, consistent across data applications, and reflective of relationships between peoples and places.
The Native Entity Connector Crosswalk maps to other relevant public data sources, where these exist—such as resources from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. This allows users to connect concepts across the varying identifiers and entity definitions that different data providers use. CICD plans to update and expand this resource over time to incorporate additional sources of information.
Click here to download the current version of the Native Entity Connector Crosswalk. See About the Data for technical details, previous versions, and additional product information. Data suggestions are welcome at cicd.data@mpls.frb.org.
Downloads from CICD data tools
CICD maintains a suite of publicly available data visualization resources focused on economic topics in Indian Country. Where possible, the underlying data are made available as well. Browse these resources below.
Native Economic Trends: Visualizing Indian Country data across time and place
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Native Community Data Profiles: Reflecting Indian Country places and people
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Mapping Native American Financial Institutions: Highlighting Native-focused financial institutions
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Native American Labor Market Dashboard: Illuminating current labor market conditions for Native people
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Native Entrepreneurship Dashboard: Exploring Native American self-employment and entrepreneurship
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