Case Study Report: Mni Sose Intertribal Water Rights Coalition

摘要

Prior to receiving a TIIAP grant, the Indian Tribes in the Missouri River Basin (Montana, Wyoming, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Missouri) identified a series of problems they were encountering such as lack of access to telecommunications and the information infrastructure as well as limited resources to handle a variety of environmental and water resources issues. To address these problems, the Mini Sose Intertribal Water Rights Coalition applied for and received an FY 1995 TIIAP grant that had the following goals: Goal 1: To reduce disparities for 23 Missouri River Basin Indian Tribes in access to and use of the national information infrastructure by providing computer hardware and software to Tribal natural resource department personnel. Goal 2: To promote high levels of support from diverse members of the community. Goal 3: To support Tribal environmental offices that utilize the national information infrastructure to address environmental issues on their respective reservations. The TIIAP project provided the necessary computer equipment and software to the participating Tribes to enable Tribal environmental staff members to access the Internet. In addition, the project provided training to participating Tribal environmental staff members on computer skills necessary to access information on the Internet and assistance in using it.