Matthew Rantanen (and tribal interviewees)
Community technologist and descendant of the Cree nation who helped build the Tribal Digital Village Network and who appears throughout the episode as the primary on-the-ground interviewee describing the network project.
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Apr 3, 2026 • 21min
The Village that built the internet
Matthew Rantanen, community technologist and Cree descendant who helped build Tribal Digital Village Network, and Zach Hirsch, reporter who narrated the story. They discuss tribal-built broadband, mountaintop radio engineering, youth-led mapping and training, the Tribal Broadband Boot Camp that spreads the model, and struggles with big ISP pushback and network sovereignty.
