Data Colonization

About this episode

Dallas Goldtooth interviews Ashley LaMont about the impact of AI data centers on Tribal sovereignty and land in Indian Country.

AI data centers are becoming one of the most talked-about development issues in Indian Country, bringing important questions about water, energy, land, and Tribal sovereignty to the forefront. On this guest-hosted episode of All My Relations, Dallas Goldtooth sits down with Ashley LaMont for a powerful conversation on land, resistance, and the growing threat of AI data centers across Indian Country. Ashley is the Co-Director of the Department of Sovereignty & Self-Determination at Honor...

People in this episode

Host: Dallas Goldtooth

Guest: Ashley LaMont

Topics covered

• AI data centers
• Tribal sovereignty
• land
• resistance
• water
• energy

Keywords

• AI
• data centers
• Indian Country
• Tribal sovereignty
• land
• resistance
• water
• energy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Department of Sovereignty & Self-Determination, Honor

Places: Indian Country

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