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Cherokee Nation

Tahlequah, Oklahoma

Award Amount: $33,946,876.75

Project Summary: The Broadband Infrastructure Deployment project proposes to install fiber and wireless technology directly connecting 5,899 unserved Native American households with 100/20 Mbps wireless service.

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Native fintech start-up Totem Technologies has landed its first tribal partnership. 

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As economic development surges across Indian Country, personal finances lag as Native communities continue to experience some of the highest rates of poverty in the nation. Several programs are driving efforts to change the tides by instilling financial literacy in Native youth to sustain economic prosperity in Indian Country for the next seven generations.

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The Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska (ITKN) will receive state funds for a broadband project amid a historic surge of support for broadband across the Indian Country. 

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The Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians will seek relief from a multi-million dollar judgment in a lawsuit involving two failed off-reservation casino projects in Michigan, the tribe announced this week. 

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Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians
Lincoln, Oregon

Award Amount: $500,000

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MESA, AZ – The National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development has opened nominations for the 2023 Native American 40 Under 40 awards.

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This week, we debut a new weekly series of news updates on Tribal efforts to increase broadband availability in Indian Country. 

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The San Pasqual Band of Mission Indians believe its Horizon Fuel Center business can travel beyond the boundaries of the tribe’s southern California reservation. That’s according to the tribe’s top economic development executive, Hellyaachwehay Quisquis.

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Researchers Matthew Gregg and Robert Maxim reflect on how the pandemic has entrenched labor market inequalities.