Fort Totten

Fort Totten is the seat of government of the Spirit Lake Nation in Benson County, North Dakota — home to the Spirit Lake Tribe (a Dakota people), the tribal administration, and tribal enterprises near the south shore of Devils Lake (Mni Wakan), alongside the historic Fort Totten site and Sullys Hill. Its tribal-government, education, health, and enterprise economy anchors the community. Media & Technology Group works as a sovereign-economic-development technology partner — building custom software, AI automation, managed IT, and marketing for the Spirit Lake Nation, its tribal government and programs, its enterprises, and Fort Totten-area businesses — remote-first from York County, Pennsylvania, structured so the Nation owns its data and its systems, full stop; distance is no barrier, and we add on-site time when a project warrants the trip.

Yes — remote-first from our York County, Pennsylvania base, we work with the Spirit Lake Tribe, its government and programs, its enterprises, and Fort Totten-area businesses. Nearly all of our work is done remotely, with on-site visits when a project warrants it, and a Fort Totten client gets a named contact, a regular maintenance window, and direct access for urgent issues.

It is the foundation of how we build. The Nation owns its data and its systems, full stop — we structure every engagement to respect tribal data sovereignty, you keep the code and the data outright with no lock-in, and we follow the Nation's own governance and data-ownership rules on where data lives and who can access it.

Yes — we build enrollment, case-management, health, education, housing, social-services, grants, and administration platforms for tribal government and programs, designed around the Nation's workflows and reporting needs, with the data owned and governed by the Nation.

Yes — we can build Dakhotiyapi (Dakota)-language interfaces, bilingual content, and language-preservation and education tools, so the systems support the Nation's language and culture rather than working against them.

Yes — we treat the Nation's enterprises, including the Spirit Lake Casino & Resort and other tribal businesses, as serious economic drivers, and we build the booking, point-of-sale, players-club, e-commerce, scheduling, and reporting platforms they need, with revenue and customer data owned by the Nation.

Yes — we build scheduling, records, intake, reporting, and case-management tools for tribal health, education, and Head Start-style programs, scoped to how each program serves Spirit Lake families and governed by the Nation's data rules.

In intake, scheduling, case routing, recordkeeping, grant and report drafting, and constituent communication — so tribal programs and enterprises get real leverage without adding headcount, always under the Nation's control of its data.

Managed EDR, MFA, immutable backups, phishing filtering, and a written recovery and incident plan, plus secure payment handling for enterprises — protecting the Nation's systems and the privacy of its members, with the Nation retaining ownership and oversight.

No — never. You own the code and the data outright; we build on open, portable foundations and document everything, so the Nation can run, host, or move its systems on its own terms. Sovereignty means no vendor lock-in.

A single focused workflow runs from the high four figures into the mid five figures; we scope it to what the Nation, a program, or an enterprise actually needs and phase it so value lands early and grant or budget cycles are respected.

Usually eight to ten weeks to the first live workflow, then iterative improvements from there — and the Nation owns the code and data outright at every step.

Yes — local SEO and content tuned for Fort Totten, the Spirit Lake Nation, and the Devils Lake area, so visitors, customers, and partners searching find the Nation's enterprises and information first, presented the way the Nation wants to be seen.