Tag: entrepreneur
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.
Overlooked: Private Sector Economies in Indian Country as an Extension of Tribal Sovereignty
Support of the private sector throughout Indian Country is conventionally viewed as secondary to that of the public sector, with encouragement of native entrepreneurism by many tribal governments faring even worse.
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.
The Business of Storytelling for Indian Country
April Tinhorn’s storytelling has woven three traits together: indigenous traditions, interpersonal listening, and intuition.