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As Companies Build Thousands of Cell Towers, Indigenous Nations are Faced with Difficult Choices
In Texas, a tiny staff of tribal officials field hundreds of requests each day to build 5G towers in areas of cultural and historic importance.
The construction of cell towers in Indigenous territories has long been an issue. Ish Ishwar
In Texas, a tiny staff of tribal officials field hundreds of requests each day to build 5G towers in areas of cultural and historic importance.
The construction of cell towers in Indigenous territories has long been an issue. Ish Ishwar
Pauly Denetclaw
Dec 21, 2020, 8:00 am CST
Every day, Bryant Celestine opens his email to find around 80 messages that require immediate responses. Most of those emails come from the Tower Construction Notification System (TCNS) that alerts the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas of a new proposal to build a 5G cell tower on ancestral territories. As the Tribal Historic Preservation Officer (THPO ....

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