Tag: business
Visibility as Power: Reframing Indigenous Economies Through the Nativepreneurs App
Nativepreneurs asks what it truly means to make things better. In Indian Country, improvement is inseparable from sovereignty, visibility, and values. The Nativepreneurs App responds by treating digital infrastructure as power, making Indigenous-owned businesses searchable, legible, and respected, while aligning economic participation with cultural continuity, community accountability, and self-determined futures collectively.
Examining Business in Indian Country in ‘American Indian Business: Principles and Practices’
The topic of Indigenous business practices and principles is a subject far from that of the mainstream Western peripheral, and American Indian Business works to both acknowledge its place in the broader business spectrum as well as highlight its particularities.
A Home for Our Multi-Faceted Matriarchs: The Native Women’s Business Summit
As indicated by Native Women Lead (the brilliant founders of the NWBS) and derived from 2017 American Express State of Women Owned Businesses Report, 1.4% of all businesses owned by women were comprised of American Indian/Alaskan Natives.
Why Native Entrepreneurs Must Continue to Ask, Why Not Us?
After having read Robert Miller’s book Reservation ‘Capitalism,’ Economic Development in Indian Country, I realized we as Native communities have some work to do around cultivating the importance of entrepreneurship in the larger guise of economic development.
Healing and Wellness with Herbs – The Story of Quw’utsun’ Made
Arianna Johnny-Wadsworth, founder of the Native-owned business Quw’utsun’ Made, was taught at a young age to engage in traditional practices.