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The
lack of infrastructure and equipment is the greatest obstacle to
tribes' attempting to achieve connectivity and networking systems
in their communities. In addition, limited access to capital often
prevents tribes from building out these systems and seriously undermines
the formation of tribally-owned businesses that could provide services
in needed. However, a number of tribes have been able to bring connectivity
to their communities, as evidenced by the links below.
2002
2001 Archives
2002
2001 and 2000 Archives
- FCC Grants Rural Web Exception :Decision Allows Residents
Internet Access Through Schools, Anchorage Daily News, 12/4/01
- Indian cultures Get Hi-Tech Help, Billings Gazette, 11/23/01
- Free Cellphones Going to Arizona, NM Tribes, Arizona Republic,
11/20/01
- Yakima and Colville
Will Establish Separate Tech Centers, Indian Country Today,
11/16/01
- Natives
to Canada: Broadband Now, Wired, 11/09/01
- Tribes
Get Grant for Tech Center, The Star of Grand Coulee, 10/31/01
- Native
Networking Trends: Wireless Broadband Networks, Benton Foundation,
9/20/01
- Half
of American Indians on Reservations Still Without Phones,
SF Gate, 8/11/01
- Isolated
Tribe Strugges Without Phone, Power, Los Angeles Times,
7/21/01
- Firms
Provide Wireless Service to Navajo Nation, The Phoenix Business
Journal, 6/20/01
- Satellite Firm Inks Deal to Service Canada's Native Bands,
Newsbytes, 5/30/01
- IRS Sends Cherokees Computers, Tulsa World, 5/22/01
- Phones
Can Be Tribe's Lifeline - Reservation Deserves Service Much
of Country Enjoys, The Desert Sun, 5/16/01
- Gila
River Telecommunication Goes Door-To-Door For $1 Phone Service.
- FCC
Chairman Meets Gila River Tribal Telephone Company
- "U.S.
Vows To Bring Indian Reservations Online", NewsFactor
Network, 2/22/01
- Maniilaq,
Otz Telephone and GCI Join Forces To Provide Internet In Northwest
Alaska Dial-Up and High-Speed Internet Access Coming to Remote
Villages, Press Release, 2/1/01
- Natives Get Caught in the Net - Grant Brings Computers, High-Speed
Access to Alaska Tribes, Anchorage Daily News, 12/09/00
- Widening
the Web: A Groundbreaking Internet Project Is Connecting Far-Removed
American Indians To The Rest Of The Cyber World, Fort Worth
Star-Telegram, 11/01/00
- FCC
Embraces Sovereignty, Indianz.com, 6/9/00
- American Indians Try To Bridge The Digital Divide, Indian
Country Today, 11/1/00
- Tribe
Shifting To Cyber Nation,The Bremerton Sun, 9/6/00
- Tulalips
Hope To Join The Computer Age While Protecting Their Heritage,
Seattle P-I, 8/18/00
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