These multimedia narratives shed light on the everyday experiences of those grappling with digital inequity—be it access to broadband networks, digital literacy, or affordable internet-connected devices: https://www.benton.org/digital-divide-diaries

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This paper offers information on Internet infrastructure development in the Native Nations across the U.S. and the rise of the movement for Spectrum Sovereignty and Network Sovereignty, which are key […]

The Internet Society commissioned this report to provide an overview of findings to date on the impacts of the Internet in Indigenous communities in Canada and the United States. It […]

Aaniin Tribe: Fond du Lac Band of the Minnesota Ojibwe Services: Internet, Voice, VideoContact: http://www.aaniin.net/ Acorn Wireless Tribe: Hoopa Valley Services: Internet Service Contact: https://acornwireless.net/ Blue Lake Rancheria Department of Energy […]

In order to obtain connectivity, many tribes have decided to work together and form consortiums. They pull resources, founding, and knowledge for the greater good of their communities. Here are […]

Case The Fort Peck Indian Reservation is located near Fort Peck, Montana and is home to several federally recognized bands of Assiniboine, Nakota, Lakota, and Dakota Native Americans Has been […]

Case The Cherokee Nation, based in Tahlequah in eastern Oklahoma, has been working for years on connectivity and learned during the pandemic last year that nearly three dozen communities lacked […]

Case The Coeur d’Alene live in Idaho, Washington, and Montana as it is their ancestral homeland with 2,000 tribal members. The reservation is about 345,000 acres in northern Idaho. The […]

Case The Crow people are a federally recognized tribe. The Crow Indian Reservation is located in southern Montana, with an enrolled membership of approximately 11,000, of whom 7,900 reside in […]

Case The Fond du Lac Band is one of the six bands of Ojibwe with more than 4,000 people. In 2006, The Fond du Lac Band wanted high-speed Internet service […]

Case The Pu`uhonua O Waimanalo Village is a sovereign, 55-acre territory on the Hawaiian island of Oʻahu. They are the oldest Hawaiian sovereignty group in existence, founded in 1994  Was […]

Case Nation is located on the East End of Long Island, surrounded by the Town of Southampton in Suffolk County.  In desperate need of broadband due to COVID-19 and  unable […]

Case Gila River Indian Community covers just over 370,000 acres just south of Phoenix, Arizona a population of 14,000 people When the COVID-19 pandemic began, residents on the reservation needed […]

Case The Havasupai Tribe is located at the bottom of the Grand Canyon with 600 tribal members Lacked broadband access at a time when connectivity has proven essential for distance […]

Case The Hopi Tribe is a sovereign nation located in northeastern Arizona. The reservation occupies part of Coconino and Navajo counties. It encompasses more than 1.5 million acres, and is […]

Case The Iñupiat are a group of Alaska Natives, whose traditional territory roughly spans northeast from Norton Sound on the Bering Sea to the northernmost part of the Canada–United States […]

Case The Makah Reservation is a long-standing tribe that has lived around Neah Bay at the northwest tip of Washington State The tribe has been working to obtain better broadband […]

Case Federally recognized as the Mescalero Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Apache Reservation,  the tribe is located in New Mexico with a population around 3,156.  The tribe has had phone […]

Case The Nez Perce Tribe is in Idaho, Washington, and Oregon on  750,000 acres of reservation.  The wireless network came out of a need for better connectivity between the government […]