Data governance trends increasingly emphasize the need to open access to data, despite growing concerns over data privacy, control, and surveillance. Indigenous peoples, with different epistemological traditions for the use and sharing of culturally sensitive information, add the additional concern of people’s ability to exert data sovereignty. Thus, while interest grow on the documentation and use of Indigenous knowledge, current data governance trends do not align well with Indigenous data rights and governance rules. This is the case of data on Indigenous peoples’ perceptions of climate change impacts collected under the LICCI project (771056-LICCI-ERC-2017-COG). While adhering to the highest EU ethical standards, data collected under the LICCI project failed to address Indigenous data governance. The project “Research on Indigenous Data Governance Protocols” (RIDaGoP) aimed at developing a set of tools to guide the management of Indigenous knowledge and data in the open while adhering to Indigenous data governance principles.