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  • Households on tribal lands lagging behind

    Keerthi Vedantam, Cronkite News|Updated Jun 3, 2019

    WASHINGTON-"Just Google it." Carroll Onsae says it's a joke among Hopi, who have broadband internet in only some pockets of the reservation. And even there it works slowly. "Our area is economically disadvantaged. It's a hardship for families to not have service to broadband services," said Onsae, the general manager of Hopi Telecommunications Inc. Only about 29 percent of Hopi households have access to broadband, compared to 79 percent in Arizona and 78 percent nationwide,...

  • At Indigenous Peoples March, different reservations, same stories

    Keerthi Vedantam, Cronkite News|Updated Feb 1, 2019

    WASHINGTON—Nataanii Means spent part of his childhood on the Navajo Nation with little electricity or running water, while energy companies mined coal and uranium nearby. He said those operations left the water polluted and undrinkable. Means brought that experience to the Indigenous Peoples March in Washington Friday where he heard the same story with different roots: People from South Dakota, Minnesota and Washington talked of pollution caused by mining or leaking oil pipeli...