The Internet’s final frontier: Remote Amazon tribes

Marubo people carry solar panels to their villages, which are used to power the Starlink antennas. — Photos: The New York Times

JAVARI VALLEY INDIGENOUS TERRITORY: As the speeches dragged on, eyes drifted to screens. Teenagers scrolled through Instagram. One man texted his girlfriend. And men crowded around a phone, streaming a soccer match, while the group’s first female leader spoke.

Just about anywhere, a scene like this would be mundane. But this was happening in a remote Indigenous village in one of the most isolated stretches of the planet.