of their members to decrease the alarming rates of violent crimes, suicides, and additional unnecessary loss of lives that Native Americans disproportionately experience, especially through the lack of access to telehealth services and digital emergency resources as demonstrated during the COVID–19 pandemic that disproportionately impacted Indian Country. (18) Further, the 2018 Broken Promises Report published by the United States Commission on Civil Rights found Native Americans rank near the bottom of all Americans in terms of health, education, and employment due to the unique challenges and harsh living conditions as a result of the Reservation Era when the Federal Government relocated Indian Tribes to geographically isolated reservations where persistent discrimination has rendered their reality often invisible to other Americans . (19) Today, Tribal lands are some of the most digitally disconnected areas in the United States, where 1.5 million people lack basic broadband and wireless services at rates comparable to, and in some cases lower than, developing countries, leaving Tribal lands further behind in the digital divide by global benchmarks. (20) In 2018, the Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development reported that wireless network coverage in Sub-Saharan Africa increased to 70 percent, surpassing the network coverage rates on Tribal lands and Hawaiian Home Lands in the United States. (21) In 2018, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reported that over 92 percent of people living outside of Tribal lands and Hawaiian Home Lands have access to fixed broadband services, and 98 percent of American households have telephone services. However, only 65 percent of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians living on Tribal lands and Hawaiian Home Lands have access to fixed broadband services, and only 69 percent of households on Tribal lands have telephone services. (22) Lack of Indian Tribes’ access to spectrum over their Tribal lands