Congrats to the Office of Broadband Development for getting broadband maps and rates for tribal nations in Minnesota. These areas can be hard to define and I know these numbers are intended as a high-level estimate, but when you can’t put your arms around access on tribal areas, it’s difficult to help or even discuss what’s happening. With these new maps and numbers we can move forward with the conversation.
Some tribes (Red Lake) are rocking it and some (Bois Forte) need help. And just like the Counties, some are doing well in terms of reaching the 2022 Minnesota speed goals of 25 Mbps up and 3 down (25/3) but they are not on their way to getting to the 2026 speed goals of 100/20. In the upcoming weeks, I will work on tribal nation profiles, similar to the county profiles I have done in the past. But for now I’m please to share links to the maps:
- Bois Forte Reservation
- Fond du Lac Reservation
- Grand Portage Reservation
- Leech Lake Reservation
- Lower Sioux Indian Community
- Mille Lacs Reservation
- Prairie Island Indian Community
- Red Lake Reservation
- Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community
- Upper Sioux Community
- White Earth Reservation
- Statewide map
And share the data (in Excel) and pasted below. (I expect the formatting of the info will be wonky – that’s the nature of pasting a table into WordPress – check out the Excel file for better formatting.)
| Name | Households (2010 estimate) | Percent Fixed, Non-Mobile Broadband (25/3) | Percent Broadband (100/20) | Percent Wireline Broadband (25/3) | Percent Wireline Broadband (100M/20M) |
| Bois Forte Reservation | 294 | 20.12 | 0.00 | 20.12 | 0.00 |
| Fond du Lac Off-Reservation Trust Land | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Fond du Lac Reservation | 1530 | 30.96 | 19.50 | 29.99 | 19.50 |
| Grand Portage Off-Reservation Trust Land | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Grand Portage Reservation | 257 | 94.24 | 94.24 | 94.24 | 94.24 |
| Ho-Chunk Nation Off-Reservation Trust Land | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Leech Lake Off-Reservation Trust Land | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Leech Lake Reservation | 3930 | 91.68 | 65.01 | 91.68 | 65.01 |
| Lower Sioux Indian Community | 134 | 100.00 | 94.07 | 77.12 | 68.44 |
| Mille Lacs Off-Reservation Trust Land | 41 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Mille Lacs Reservation | 1835 | 60.51 | 60.46 | 61.12 | 61.07 |
| Minnesota Chippewa Trust Land | 22 | 4.55 | 0.00 | 4.55 | 0.00 |
| Prairie Island Indian Community | 62 | 100.00 | 50.59 | 50.16 | 50.16 |
| Prairie Island Off-Reservation Trust Land | 20 | 100.00 | 90.95 | 90.95 | 90.95 |
| Red Lake Reservation | 1757 | 99.81 | 99.81 | 99.81 | 99.81 |
| Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community | 116 | 50.00 | 50.00 | 44.36 | 31.98 |
| Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Off-Reservation Trust Land | 189 | 88.00 | 66.15 | 79.59 | 48.48 |
| Upper Sioux Community | 48 | 100.00 | 52.48 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Upper Sioux Off-Reservation Trust Land | 1 | 100.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| White Earth Off-Reservation Trust Land | 11 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 |
| White Earth Reservation | 3529 | 84.67 | 13.57 | 84.67 | 13.57 |