Broadband Innovations, Part 2: Fiber Optics Reaches the Tipi

In Part 2 of our four-part Broadband Innovations series, see how the Ktunaxa Nation of Canada uses fast broadband to save its indigenous language and culture from extinction.

Kajsa Linnarsson, PC World

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The goals of the Ktunaxa Nation Council--besides preservating the Ktunaxa people's traditional knowledge, language, and culture--include promoting social development and wellness, land and resource development, economic investment, and self-government.

The woman in this photo, Pauline Eugene, works as an administrative assistant at the traditional knowledge and language sector of the Ktunaxa Nation Council.

"It's hard work, but whenever I'm tempted to give up something seems to happen that reminds me of why I'm doing this. A sparkle in the eye of one of the elders when hearing a child speak Ktunaxa is enough to make it all worthwhile", she says.

[Photo: Kajsa Linnarsson]