Speaking of the Kewa Pueblo, a $12.7 million federal grant awarded to the tribe in 2022 is helping leaders expand a broadband network built in 2015 and assemble a photovoltaic microgrid in part to preserve their language.
The Pueblo is using 3D printers to create the parts needed to build energy and internet infrastructure. “We can’t find what we need so we created our own,” tribal administrator Herman Sanchez said. Lindsey Abeita (Kewa) is a digital content producer for the Pueblo. She said the 3D printing methodology allows the Pueblo to expand its internet presence independently. “So we can be a self-sustaining Pueblo,” she said. [Santo Domingo Pueblo 3D prints materials for its first large-scale solar farm]In 2020, the Red Lake Nation voted to approve the first legal application of cannabis flower in Minnesota and expanded the list of qualifying symptoms for tribal patients seeking treatment. Now, the Nation will open the first dispensary in the state on August 1.
Image: Kewa Pueblo member, Ricardo Caté is the creator of the comic strip, Without Reservations. In 2015 he traveled to occupied South Dakota with other activists to help raise awareness of my home state's inhumanity to Indigenous Americans.
Me and @woreservations cartoonist Ricardo Cate and his latest shirt on the #Lakota57 ! #Unity4Lakota pic.twitter.com/BPU77fplCN
— Lalo Alcaraz (@laloalcaraz) May 2, 2015
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