Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe jumps across digital divide with $11.4M grant

“Work begins on a tribe-owned high-speed fiber network that will connect to hundreds of homes and businesses across the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe tribal lands, including more than 350 households and seven businesses that currently have no internet access…‘We’re isolated — in a communications desert,’ said Melanie Benjamin, chief executive of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe.”

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