Reading Annotation 2.3

I find the concepts that Marisa Duarte explores very compelling; in particular, she shares a caveat given to her by human rights activist and Tohono O’odham Nation member Mike Wilson, he cautioned her about lending too much credence to the idea of "Tribal Sovereignty". He has a unique perspective on Tribal matters, as he is an outspoken community leader that has been at odds with Tribal Government due to his tendency to leave gallons of water out for travelers crossing the desert into the United States, through reservation lands. I believe his assertion is a very real and tangible philosophy when it comes to any number of systems where Indian Country is concerned, as later evidenced by Duarte in chapter 4 when speaking about Myra Jodie whom had won a new IMac that she could not use due to having no phone line in her home. She tells of a media movement upon this discovery, which was noticed by the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation. The foundation had decided to engineer the tribe into the modern era, by way of installing the necessary network that would allow for internet access for the tribe. Before long, it was discovered by the engineers that their undertaking would require more than the simple planning and execution they had grown accustomed to; there were not just challenges in terrain that would have to be taken into account, there was the hard and real situation of a lack of many basic infrastructural regularities that were not present to make the feat feasible beyond what they would be willing to invest. This is the essence of the "Indian Problem" which she describes, and also central to why Mike Wilson had warned her about faith in the fragile specter of "Tribal Sovereignty". The Tribe can only be sovereign in ways that are approved of by the prevailing occupational government, and will only be able to define their means of self-determination under that same scrutiny of imperialistic approval. There is a thought process in the western thinking where people have blind spots when it comes to technology, likely assuming that equal access to technologies is available to all within the national borders and having no appreciation to the lack of attention and support that many marginalized receive; this is often expressed in certain societal enclaves as these same groups being less educated, less technologically inclined, or disadvantaged by somehow refusing to embrace advancements rather than wondering if these advancements were made accessible to them at any time or in any considerable measure.