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The digital divide for Indian Country got better under Biden—will that progress go away?

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Tribal Broadband Bootcamps are bridging the internet access gap between tribal lands and the bulk of the U.S. It's one of the most unequal parts of the digital divide.

Matthew Rantanen's bootcamps encourage Indigenous people not to back away from an arena where, “you only get a quarter of a bottlenecked internet,” he said.

Tribal Broadband Bootcamps typically begin with crimping.

Expertise is developed and shared, flowing fast across comfortable human networks like bits and bytes flashing across resilient fiber optics.

Bootcamp participants join Discord chats where build-your-own-ISP questions are asked and answered daily .

Spectrum isn’t mentioned outright in treaties with the federal government.

The Supreme Court has long upheld the concept of reserved rights to Indian tribes.

The FCC , authorized by Congress to manage wireless spectrum generally, disagrees.

Could the next administration resolve the spectrum dispute and mend that divide?.

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