NTIA Commits Nearly $5 Million in Internet for All Grants to Tribal Lands

The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has awarded grants totaling $4,997,592.68 to ten Tribes as part of the Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program (TBCP). With funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), these new grants bring the total of the program to over $1.77 billion awarded to 157 Tribal entities. These grants will help reduce monthly Internet service costs, plan for future Internet infrastructure investments, upgrade network equipment, and purchase devices. In the next few months, the NTIA will release a second Notice of Funding Opportunity for an additional round of funding from the TBCP program. The awardees are:

• Hoonah Indian Association (AK)
• Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians (CA)
• Ewiiaapaayp of Kumeyaay Indians (CA)
• Guidiville Indian Rancheria (CA)
• Seminole Tribe of Florida (FL)
• Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians (Gun Lake) (MI)
• White Earth Band of Chippewa Indians (MN)
• Chickahominy Indian Tribe (VA)
• Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe of the Shoalwater Bay Indian Reservation (WA)
• Stockbridge-Munsee Community (WI)