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Setting up for Sovereignty
  • Evans Craig,
    High Performance Computing & Education Center
    Internet Technology Service
    First Nations Cafe’
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Accomplishing Tribal Sovereignty through Collaborative Networks
  • Designing Statewide Systems for Tribal Nations. Browsing through collaborating Tribes, such as the Pueblo Nations, 18 New Mexico Tribes and the Tribal Digital Village, 19 California Tribes, to experience Sovereign Tribal Network Design concepts that come directly from the collaborating Tribes being utilized.
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Virtual Office to Virtual Company
  • Personal Introduction
  • Tribal Vision
  • Online Research
  • Self-Governance
  • Self-Sustainment
  • Sovereignty


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Personal Introduction
  • Dine’ - fulltime
  • UNM Education Outreach & Training Manager
    • telecommute 20 hrs./week
  • Owner:Internet Technology Service, LLC
    • Virtual Offices in NM & CA
  • Teach online via Kumeyaay Community College: Online
    • DQ University@Sycuan - 15 weeks
    • Indian Training – 20 weeks
  • Partner – First Nations Cafe’
    • Storefront in Imperial Beach, CA
      (just 2 blocks from the beach!)
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Defining Technology/Internet terms
  • Electricity
    • the tree that hums
  • Network
    • Connected Computers
  • Internet
    • the network of networks

  • PC board
    • old cheese with bugs
  • Wireless
    • the network with no cables or wires
  • Broadband
    • expandable networks
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Internet2 Example
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The Four Directions of Technology
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How does Tribal Vision happen?
  • Self Governance
    • Tribal Networks
  • Self Sustainment
    • Tribal Education
    • Tribal Business
  • Sovereignty
    • Owning it all!
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Online Research
  • The Native Digital Divide
    www.eot.ahpcc.unm.edu/Community/Reports/NativeDigitalDivide.html
  • Tribal College Internet Status
    www.eot.ahpcc.unm.edu/Tribal/AIHEC_status/
  • Underrepresented Minorities in IT
    www.cise.nsf.gov/itminorities.html
  • Statewide Wireless Tribal Broadband Networks
    www.eot.ahpcc.unm.edu/Community/StatewideWirelessTribalBroadbandNetwork2.html
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Self Governance: Tribal Networks
  • Santa Ana Pueblo
    www.SantaAna.org
    • Tribal Wireless Model
    • TOP Grant to start
    • Expanding WAP from Tribal offices to Tribal businesses to Tribal members
  • Tribal Digital Village
    www.TribalDigitalVillage.org
    • Inter-Tribal Regional
      Wireless Model
    • HP Grant to start
    • Connecting 18 Mission Bands in Southern California
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Self Sustainment: Tribal Education
  • Tribal Online Schools
    • Indian Training.org
      www.IndianTraining.org
    • Kumeyaay Community College: Online
      www.KumeyaayCommunityCollege.com
    • American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) Online through the American Indian High Performance Network Initiative   www.AIHEC.org
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Self Sustainment: Tribal Education
  • The ACCESS Grid at Dine’ College
  • Collaborative Workshop for AIHEC   Technology Coordinators



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Self Sustainment: Tribal Business
  • Via My ‘Virtual Office’
    • New Mexico Tribes
    • Southern California Tribes
    • First Nations Cafe’
      • Internet Cafe’
        www.FirstNationsCafe.com
      • Tribal Mall
        www.TribalMall.com
      • American Indian Chamber of Commerce of SD
        www.AICC-SD.org
      • American Indian Contractors Association Network
        www.AICAnet.org

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Sovereignty: Tribally-owned Networks
  • Pueblo Nations www.PuebloNations.com
    • Inter-Tribal Statewide
      Wireless Model
    • Dep’t of Commerce Grant to start
    • Connecting up 19 Pueblo Nations
  • Navajo Nation
    www.NavajoNation.org
    • Tribal Multi-state Model
    • TIIAP Grant to start
    • Connecting 112 Chapters in 4 states; NM, CO, UT, & AZ
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Sovereignty: Tribally-owned Networks
  • Northwest Inter-Tribal Network
    • Multi-state Inter-Tribal Model
    • Started with a TOP Grant
    • Connecting up 55 Tribes in 6 States
      WA, OR, ID, MT, AK & CA


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Visioning Internet Connectivity for Indian Country in 1999
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Visioning Native American Distance Education
  • Education, Outreach & Training
    PACI Modeling Tools http://www.eot.ahpcc.unm.edu/Modeling Tools.htm
    • Flatland at HPCERC - UNM
    • Virtual Environments at NCSA - UI
    • Visualization at SDSC - UCSD


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High Performance Computing & Education Center (HPCERC) at the University of New Mexico (UNM)
  • Flatland Virtual Environment
    • a multidimensional, virtual environment to visualize experimental data in a common environment
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National Center for Supercomputing Applications at University of Illinois
  • Virtual Reality Facilities
  • CAVE Virtual Environment
  • Electronic Visualization Laboratory
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San Diego Supercomputing Center at UCSD
  • Advanced Scientific Visualization Lab
  • VRML Repository
  • Web3D Repository
  • VRML Consortium
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“Bridging the Native Digital Divide.”
  • Join us, the “Pueblo Nations” in NM &
    “Tribal Digital Village” in CA
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Access Grid at Dine’ College in Shiprock, NM
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The 19 Pueblo Nations in New Mexico
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The 19 Mission Bands in Southern California Tribal Digital Village (TDV)
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Setting up for Sovereignty
  • Accomplishing Tribal Sovereignty through Collaborative Networks