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Looks at the underdevelopment of the private sector on American Indian reservations, with the goal of sustaining and growing Native nation communities.
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Introduction Miriam Jorgensen; Part I. The Setting: 1. Private sector economic development in Indian Country Robert J. Miller; 2. Opportunities to diversify: reservation workplaces and job numbers compared to nearby county areas Randall Akee, Elton Mykerezi and Richard M. Todd; Part II. Policy Barriers and Policy Needs: 3. The challenges of American Indian land tenure and the vastness of entrepreneurial potential Jessica A. Shoemaker; 4. Right-sizing use rights: Navajo land, bureaucracy, and home Ezra Rosser; 5. Access to credit in Indian Country: the promise of secured transaction systems in creating strong economies Patrice Kunesh and Benjamin Horowitz; 6. Retooling Indian Country for economic resurgence: reflections from a native CDFI practitioner David Castillo; Part III. Learning from Business Scholars: 7. Becoming an entrepreneur: essentials for any environment Mark C. Maletz; 8. Prototype, validate, pivot, repeat: a short, short course in entrepreneurship Daniel Stewart; 9. Mapping the sustainable development goals to Indian nations Carla F. Fredericks; 10. Supply chain management and Native American entrepreneurs Stephanie L. Black and Deanna M. Kennedy; Part IV. From Learning to Doing: Examples of Entrepreneurship in Indian Country: 11. Native American food sovereignty and youth entrepreneurship Raymond Foxworth, Krystal Langholz and A-dae Romero-Briones; 12. Indigenous arts ecology - a new investment model for Indian Country Lori Lea Pourier.
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Robert J. Miller is a Professor at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University and the Faculty Director of the Rosette LLP American Indian Economic Development Program. He is a member of the Navajo Nation Council of Economic Advisors and the American Philosophical Society. He is also the Interim Chief Justice for the Pascua Yaqui Tribe Court of Appeals and a citizen of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe. He sits on the Grand Ronde Tribe and Northwest Inter-Tribal Courts of Appeals. He is the author of Reservation 'Capitalism': Economic Development in Indian Country (2012).Miriam Jorgensen is a Research Director of the Native Nations Institute at the University of Arizona. She is co-founder of the University of Arizona Indigenous Governance certificate program and editor of Rebuilding Native Nations: Strategies for Governance and Development (2007). Her work – in the US, Canada, and Australia – focuses on Indigenous governance and development and has addressed issues as wide-ranging as welfare policy, policing and justice systems, natural resources, cultural stewardship, land ownership, enterprise management, financial education, and entrepreneurship.Dan Stewart is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and Director of the Hogan Entrepreneurial Leadership Program at Gonzaga University. He is an enrolled member of the Spokane Tribe of Indians and the co-editor of American Indian Business: Principles and Practices (2017). In addition to his academic work, Dan is president of Dardan Enterprises, a diversified commercial construction firm.
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Expert authors look at the underdevelopment of the private sector on American Indian reservations, with the goal of sustaining and growing Native nation communities. They address barriers to expanding the sector, provide policy guidance, and describe successful business models, offering students, practitioners, and policymakers the tools to make change.
