“Today, we are excited to announce a new way forward for Indigenous people,” said Mike Schroepfer, Chief Technology Officer at Facebook. “Before social media, before the smartphone, and before telecommunications, there they were. It was wireless communication in its purest form, and they didn’t even have a data plan for it. Truly they were a smart group of people.” Facebook is able to support over 100 languages and has just recently begun foraying into Indigenous dialects, al