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Chippewa Cree Tribe
Box Elder, Montana
Amount: $15,300,356.84
Project Summary: The Tribe's broadband infrastructure deployment project proposes to install fiber and fixed wireless infrastructure to directly connect 770 unserved Native American households with fiber-to-the-home with 1 Gbps/1 Gbps and/or fixed wireless to the home with 100 Mbps/20 Mbps service.
Update: The Chippewa Cree Tribe is in completing the planning phase of its $15.3 million project that will be a “game changer” for its reservation in Box Elder, Montana, according to a tribal spokesperson who asked not to be named because he didn’t have permission to speak to the media.
The project will install roughly 51.5 miles of fiber cable to deliver high speed broadband to 645 tribal households, 20 Cree-owned businesses, and 25 community anchor institutions. In addition, the tribe will build six communications towers to leverage the new backhaul towards a fixed wireless connection for 125 unserved tribal households in outlying areas around the reservation.
That’s going to make a huge impact on the reservation for people who couldn’t otherwise consistently access telehealth, remote learning, and remote work services, the spokesperson told Tribal Business News.
“It’s huge in all areas - health, education, economic development, small businesses - it’s going to be a big deal for everyone,” the spokesperson said. “It’s a win-win for everybody.”
Construction activities for the project should begin in the spring, after the tribe completes some “planning stages,” the spokesperson said.
“We’re still bringing on our contractor and engineers,” they said. “But this will serve the whole reservation and even provide service for some people off the reservation that may be close by but off the beaten path.”
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Hoopa Valley Tribe
Hoopa, California
Amount: $65,140,407.72
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The Palo Alto, Calif.-based Indigenous Connectivity Institute (ICI) has received a $2.7 million, three-year grant to help Native Americans enter careers in broadband.
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A major Alaskan broadband effort has turned its first circuits online, connecting the remote Unalaska region to high speed internet amid a statewide push to bring rural and tribal communities online.
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Samish Indian Nation
Anacortes, Washington
Amount: $584,800
Project Summary: This Broadband Use and Adoption project proposes to address the current digital divide by conducting an analysis of broadband assets, digital literacy skills, and the availability of broadband equipment and devices for Samish Tribal citizens.
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Bethel Native Corporation
Bethel, AK
Award Amount: $42,383,221
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- By Elyse Wild
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The federally recognized Redding Rancheria Tribe has launched a new business venture aimed at protecting communities and the environment from the devastating impact of wildfires in northern California and beyond.
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The business arm of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe in central Minnesota, said that it has sold its Foxtrot Marketing Group business unit to the company’s top executive.
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Amid concerns over proposed changes to a key federal funding program used by Native Community Development Financial Institutions, a senior Treasury executive spoke with Native CDFI executives on a live streaming broadcast on Feb. 9.
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Doyon, Limited Alaska Native Corporation
Fairbanks, Alaska
Award Amount: $50,651,548.43