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Since the start of the COVID pandemic, Congress has appropriated billions of dollars to a program intended to help lower-income people afford internet access. Now, that funding is running out.

Some Native nations, such as the Hopi in Arizona, are building their own networks to provide high-speed internet and tapping into a recent increase in state and federal funding to

If you live in a rural or less populated area, satellite service might be your only viable option for a broadband connection.

On the Hopi Reservation’s more than 1.5 million acres of desert landscape in northeast Arizona, most residents live in villages atop arid mesas.

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Native nations with scarce internet are building their own broadband networks

On the Hopi Reservation’s more than 1.5 million acres of desert landscape in northeast Arizona, most residents live in villages atop arid mesas.

In 2020, more than 18 percent of people living on tribal lands didn’t have access to broadband, compared to just 4 percent of people living in non-tribal areas. Tribes across the country are now taking matters into their own hands.

The funding could keep a popular internet affordability program in place for millions of American households through the end of the year.

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