Аннотация:Information Technologies in the Life of Modern American Indians.
One of the distinguishing features of North American Indians is their ability to combine centuries-old traditions with contemporaneity. At times they even use the latest achievements of civilization for the sake of the maintenance of their culture, as it happens, for instance, with informational technologies. Nowadays Indians turn to them more and more often, and it helps in solving a whole list of problems both for separate people or tribes and all the Native population of the USA. A curious fact is that even when using the computer for a variety of matters, American Indians not only keep but often brightly evince their ethnical individuality. More than that, such a mediator helps some of them assume it…
Today informational technologies have not only become indispensable in the life of present-day American Indians, but also are of great help in settling a number of political, economic, legal, social and cultural issues. It can be true that, like at some time without the horse, Native Americans would not be able to do without informational and telecommunications technologies in the XXIst century as the latter have immensely expanded their opportunities in all spheres.