Porcupine
Porcupine is a Lakota community in Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota near the center of the Pine Ridge Reservation, home to a tribal community, a clinic, and a school. Its life centers on the Oglala Sioux Tribe's community and programs, health, education, ranching, and the families and organizations serving the area. Media & Technology Group builds bespoke business platforms (custom software, AI automation, managed IT, and marketing) for the Oglala Sioux Tribe, its programs, schools, and enterprises, and the Porcupine area's organizations and businesses, and we serve them remote-first from York County, Pennsylvania. Distance is no barrier, and we add on-site time when a project warrants the trip. When we build for the Nation, the Nation owns its data and its systems, full stop.
Do you work with the Lakota community and businesses in Porcupine, South Dakota?
Yes. Remote-first from our York County, Pennsylvania base, and being a Pine Ridge Reservation community in Oglala Lakota County is no obstacle: nearly all of our work is done remotely, with on-site visits when a project warrants it. A Porcupine client, tribal program, clinic, school, or local organization, gets a named contact, a regular maintenance window, and direct access for urgent issues.
If you build a system for the Oglala Sioux Tribe, who owns the data?
The Nation does, full stop. We respect tribal data sovereignty: the Tribe owns its data and its systems outright, the data stays under the Nation's control, and there is no vendor lock-in. You can take the platform and its data with you at any time.
Can you respect tribal data sovereignty and the Tribe's governance of its own information?
Yes. That's foundational to how we work with a Nation. We build so that data ownership, hosting, access, and governance stay with the Oglala Sioux Tribe, and we document it plainly so there's never ambiguity about who controls what.
Can you help a clinic or health program in Porcupine?
Yes. A tribal or community clinic or health program is exactly who we build scheduling, intake, case-management, and reporting tools for, with access controls aligned to HIPAA and the Tribe's data-governance rules, and the Nation owning the data and the system outright.
Can you build Lakota-language (Lakȟótiyapi) tools for the Porcupine community?
Yes. We can build interfaces, content, forms, and language-preservation or education tools that support Lakȟótiyapi alongside English, scoped to how the Tribe, the school, and the community want to use them.
Can you help the Porcupine school, and who would own it?
Yes, and the school owns it. We build student-information, enrollment, scheduling, communication, and reporting tools around how the school runs, and the school and the Nation own the data and the system outright, with student privacy and security designed in.
Can you help a Porcupine ranch or tribal enterprise?
Yes. A ranch or a tribal enterprise near Porcupine is exactly who we build herd, operations, scheduling, inventory, and customer or member platforms for, around how the operation actually runs, with the Tribe owning the result and the data when we build for the Nation.
Where does AI help a Porcupine organization or business?
In intake, scheduling, case management, recordkeeping, member or customer email, and follow-up, so a clinic, school, tribal program, or local organization gets real leverage without adding headcount, while keeping data under its own control.
What's the cybersecurity baseline for a Porcupine tribal or local organization?
Managed EDR, MFA, immutable backups, phishing filtering, and a written recovery plan, plus secure payment handling and access controls aligned to the Tribe's data-governance, HIPAA, and student-privacy rules. We set it up and manage it for you, with the Nation retaining control.
What does a custom platform cost a Porcupine organization?
A single focused workflow runs from the high four figures into the mid five figures; we scope it to what the Tribe, clinic, school, or organization actually needs and phase it so value lands early.
How long until it's running, and who owns the code and data?
Usually eight to ten weeks to the first live workflow, then iterative improvements from there, and you own the code and the data outright, with no lock-in. For the Nation and its schools, that ownership and data sovereignty are the starting point, not an afterthought.
Can you help a Porcupine organization or business get found online?
Yes. Local SEO, outreach, and communication tools tuned for Porcupine, the Pine Ridge Reservation, and the wider Oglala Lakota County area, so the people, patients, students, and families searching find you first.
What we do for Porcupine businesses
Every engagement is built around how your Porcupine operation actually runs, an Oglala Sioux tribal program, a clinic, a school, a tribal enterprise, a ranch, or a local organization, not an off-the-shelf template, and for the Nation and its schools, with tribal data sovereignty and ownership built in. Here's where we help:
Custom Software Platforms
Clinic, case-management, enrollment, student-information, herd, scheduling, and reporting platforms built around how the Oglala Sioux Tribe, a clinic, a school, or a Porcupine organization runs, with the Nation and schools owning their data and systems outright.
Intelligent Automation
AI and workflow automation that takes intake, scheduling, case handling, recordkeeping, and email off a Porcupine team's plate, so your people focus on the work, with data kept under your control.
Marketing & SEO
Local SEO, outreach, and communication tuned for Porcupine, the Pine Ridge Reservation, its clinic, school, and programs, and the wider Oglala Lakota County area, so the people, patients, students, and families searching find you first.
Managed IT & Cybersecurity
Managed EDR, MFA, immutable backups, secure payment handling, and access controls aligned to tribal data-governance, HIPAA, and student-privacy rules for a Porcupine organization, handled remotely with on-site help when needed.
Consulting
Practical advice for Porcupine leaders, tribal, health, school, and local, on where technology, AI, and data sovereignty fit a clinic, school, program, enterprise, ranch, or service operation.
