On Tribal Lands, Digital Divide Brings New Form Of Isolation (fwd link)

[Phillip E Cash Cash]

On Tribal Lands, Digital Divide Brings New Form Of Isolation

Posted: 04/20/2012 2:50 pm
USA

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.

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.

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.

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