Network Sovereignty: Building the Internet Across Indian Country

Network Sovereignty: Building the Internet Across Indian CountryIn 2012, the United Nations General Assembly determined that affordable Internet access is a human right, critical to citizen participation in democratic governments. Given the significance of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to social and political life, many U. S. tribes and Native organizations have created their own projects, from streaming radio to building networks to telecommunications advocacy. In Network Sovereignty, Marisa

It tells the story of twelve characters

Richard Henry Pratt

whose novels

child-hood games

they flow together throughout the collection into a single cohesive body

the biopolitics of "Indianness

But the price of success is estrangement from her cultural roots—and is it one she is willing to pay

With astonishing virtuosity

so the children could learn some of their Anishinaabe culture and language at the same time

" The art of Moses Beaver

and ravishing world of myth

Oglala Sioux