Melissa Olson
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Aug 26, 2026
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- Aug 12, 2026
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How a Native-owned company helped tribes bridge the digital divide (opens the original)
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When COVID-19 forced schools online in the spring of 2020, Madonna Peltier Yawakie was already working in rural Montana, helping the Blackfeet Nation build its broadband network. Students had been sent home with laptops, but they had no connections where they lived. Yawakie recalled seeing cars lined up outside tribal government offices and casinos so children could pull a Wi-Fi signal for school. "The kits, I think they were called jet packs that were provided by a large wireless company," Yawa
A tribal nation reclaims reservation land through much-debated carbon credits (opens the original)
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Along Highway 65 on the Nett Lake sector of the Bois Forte reservation, just south of the Canadian border, the forest runs to tall red and white pine and blue spruce. Lance Hill is the realty manager for the Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe, and a citizen of the band. He has watched it buy back land the Bois Forte band lost more than a century ago. “It hit a lot of positive notes with the band,” Hill said. “Yes, we finally get to get our land back.” He turns his car down Palmquist Road, and the forest
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