@kenshirriff There’s an exploitative history to this, as Lisa Nakamura at U Michigan demonstrates. To avoid paying rising labor costs, chip companies in the 60s outsourced manufacturing to the Navajo to benefit from both cheap labor and a racialized ideal of native women with “innate” nimble hands and attention to detail from weaving. When the workers demanded better wages, the company relocated manufacture.

https://ifyoulived.org/IndigenousCircuits.pdf