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Ideas are flying off Amy Yeung like sparks. A skate part surrounded by an ancestral food garden … custom sweatshirts for each participant in a school science fair …

The small world of Native YouTubers has seen significant strides over the last few years but has yet to produce a creator who could ascend into the mainstream consciousness of the YouTube world.

If Navajo Power can win over hearts and minds at Coalmine Canyon, it could succeed in launching solar development with the potential to transform Western Navajo, a region that has remained underdeveloped and economically depressed for decades.

After spending the last seven years researching and producing maps of the original Native nations —first of the continental U.S., then Alaska and Hawaii, then North America, then the Caribbean and South America — Aaron Carapella was “kind of maxed out” on the cartography of the pre-colonial Americas.

Broadband internet access has come to the reservation piecemeal.