<div>hmmm... i don't know if i buy this <br>
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from<font><font face="georgia,serif"> the article<i> On Tribal Lands, Digital Divide Brings New Form Of Isolation</i></font></font><i>:</i><br>
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" Without reliable access to the Internet, many Native Americans find
themselves increasingly isolated, missing out on opportunities to secure
jobs, gain degrees through online classes, reach health care
practitioners, and <b>even preserve native languages and rituals with new
applications that exploit the advantages of the web.</b><br>
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the first part may be true...but <i>its land remoteness that's helped KEEP Dinéh bizaad alive</i> much longer than our<br>
smaller tribes that have been completely surrounded by outsider influences from the 1700s.<br>
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a long drive out of Dinétah (Navajoland) to find internet access to learn the Navajo language<br>
is too much like a Vietnamese traveling to Scotland to study Vietnamese Languages.<br>
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ahh....what i would give for 200 years of such isolation for OUR people....<br></div><div>and just to be free of all the redneck influences here swallowing them</div><div><br></div><div>sometimes I long for the lovely isolation of Dinétah</div>
<div><br></div><div>Richard Zane Smith</div><div>Wyandotte Oklahoma</div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Phillip E Cash Cash <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cashcash@email.arizona.edu">cashcash@email.arizona.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><font><font face="georgia,serif">On Tribal Lands, Digital Divide Brings New Form Of Isolation<br><br>Posted: 04/20/2012 2:50 pm<br>
USA<br><br>WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. -- Like many college students, Wilhelmina Tsosie must go online to complete her assignments. But unlike the vast majority of Americans, she finds that the biggest challenge in her coursework is merely getting connected.<br>
<br>Tsosie is a member of the Navajo Nation, the Native American community whose sprawling reservation has long been isolated from the rest of the country -- an isolation now being reinforced by the digital age.<br><br>On a recent night, she endured a 30-mile drive along a dark desert highway to reach this town, her nearest access point to the Internet. She carried her laptop into a hotel that offers wireless access. In the dim light of the lobby, she hunched over the screen and finished an online exam.<br>
<br>Access full article below:<br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/20/digital-divide-tribal-lands_n_1403046.html" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/20/digital-divide-tribal-lands_n_1403046.html</a><br>
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