Why the digital divide persists within Indigenous communities

In 2020, amid a global pandemic that highlighted a staggering digital divide among Americans, the federal government pledged to do something. Its solution? Some promising tech subsidies and a wave of funding for internet access initiatives, specifically high speed broadband. This money included the government's promise to fix the missing middle miles of fiber optic connections that have for decades kept many Indigenous areas offline.At the time, the round of funding was a history-making inv