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Community-based participatory research methods which emerged to help Alaska Native communities navigate the complicated legacy of historical research abuses provide a framework to allow emerging AI\/ML technologies to align with their unique world views, community strengths, and healthcare goals. A consortium of researchers (including Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, the Center for Alaska Native Health Research at University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Stanford University, Southcentral Foundation, and Maniilaq Association) is using community-engaged AI\/ML methods to address air medical ambulance (medevac) utilization in rural communities within the Alaska Tribal Health System (ATHS). This mixed-methods convergent triangulation study uses qualitative and quantitative analyses to develop AI\/ML models tailored to community needs, provider concerns, and cultural contexts. Early successes have led to a second funded project to expand community perspectives, pilot models, and address issues of governance and ethics. Using the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Research framework to address implementation of AI\/ML in AI\/AN communities, this second grant expands community engagement, technical capacity, and creates a body within the ATHS able to provide recommendations about AI\/ML security, privacy, governance and policy. 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