Indigenous-Developed Simulation Space Planned for WSU Spokane with Bank of America Grant
WSU Health Sciences students learn and practice in a simulation space in the Center for Native American Health. Historically, Indigenous communities have experienced lower health status and lower life expectancies, in part due to a lack of cultural understanding by...
Augustine Band of Cahuilla Indians Rewards Essential Employees with “Hero Pay” for Dedication During Covid Pandemic
The Augustine Tribal Council voted to give its essential workers $10 additional pay for each hour worked during one of the most difficult years in recent memory. COACHELLA, Calif. — More than 70 tribal government and casino employees were presented with a surprise...
Indigenous Health Care Lawyer Corinne Sebren Joins Galanda Broadman
Corinne Sebren joins a growing bench of Galanda Broadman team members. Harvard Law School alumnus Matt Slovin also joined the firm as an Associate this past July. Seattle, WA – Corinne Sebren has joined Galanda Broadman PLLC as an Associate. Corinne joins the firm...
American Indigenous Business Leaders & American Indian Graduate Center Award $20K to Native Student Entrepreneurs
Inaugural Business Pitch Competition hosted at AIBL’s annual national conference in Las Vegas. Missoula, MT – American Indigenous Business Leaders (AIBL) and American Indian Graduate Center partnered to award $20K to four Native American student entrepreneurs to...
Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Lake Tahoe Announces Million Dollar Pro Football Frenzy
Participants can make weekly football picks and play free online games daily to win prizes. Stateline, NV. – Hotel Hard Rock Hotel & Casino will take part in the Million Dollar Pro Football Frenzy now - Feb. 13, 2022. Participants can make weekly football picks...
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Indigenous Health Care Lawyer Corinne Sebren Joins Galanda Broadman
Corinne Sebren joins a growing bench of Galanda Broadman team members. Harvard Law School alumnus Matt Slovin also joined the firm as an Associate this past July. Seattle, WA – Corinne Sebren has joined Galanda Broadman PLLC as an Associate. Corinne joins the firm...
Indigenous-Developed Simulation Space Planned for WSU Spokane with Bank of America Grant
WSU Health Sciences students learn and practice in a simulation space in the Center for Native American Health. Historically, Indigenous communities have experienced lower health status and lower life expectancies, in part due to a lack of cultural understanding by...
Augustine Band of Cahuilla Indians Rewards Essential Employees with “Hero Pay” for Dedication During Covid Pandemic
The Augustine Tribal Council voted to give its essential workers $10 additional pay for each hour worked during one of the most difficult years in recent memory. COACHELLA, Calif. — More than 70 tribal government and casino employees were presented with a surprise...
American Indigenous Business Leaders & American Indian Graduate Center Award $20K to Native Student Entrepreneurs
Inaugural Business Pitch Competition hosted at AIBL’s annual national conference in Las Vegas. Missoula, MT – American Indigenous Business Leaders (AIBL) and American Indian Graduate Center partnered to award $20K to four Native American student entrepreneurs to...
Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Lake Tahoe Announces Million Dollar Pro Football Frenzy
Participants can make weekly football picks and play free online games daily to win prizes. Stateline, NV. – Hotel Hard Rock Hotel & Casino will take part in the Million Dollar Pro Football Frenzy now - Feb. 13, 2022. Participants can make weekly football picks...
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Native Business Video Learning: Watch Keynote Remarks from Cherokee Nation Principal Chief, Chuck Hoskin, Jr.
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Native Business Video Learning: Watch this Gaming Roundtable w/Tribal Leaders of Mississippi Band of Choctaws, Mescalero Apache Tribe & National Indian Gaming Association
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Native Business Podcast – Episode 15: DOE Tribal Energy Opportunities and Indian Energy, LLC Microgrid Solutions
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On episode 14 of the Native Business Podcast, your host and the founder/publisher of Native Business Magazine, Gary Davis (Cherokee Nation), is joined by JC Seneca, founder of Tallchief Hemp. Mr. Seneca shares how he established, capitalized and grew his hemp business...
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Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Lake Tahoe Announces Million Dollar Pro Football Frenzy
Participants can make weekly football picks and play free online games daily to win prizes. Stateline, NV. – Hotel Hard Rock Hotel & Casino will take part in the Million Dollar Pro Football Frenzy now - Feb. 13, 2022. Participants can make weekly football picks...
Snoqualmie Casino Launches First Sportsbook in Washington State on Opening Day of the NFL Season
Snoqualmie Casino received regulatory approval on August 31, allowing the licensing of vendors, one of the final steps in opening. Snoqualmie, WA – The Snoqualmie Casino made history on September 9, 2021 with the opening of the first sportsbook in Washington State....
Texas Rangers and Choctaw Announce Naming Rights Partnership for Globe Life Park
Multi-purpose sports and entertainment venue to be called Choctaw Stadium.Arlington, TX —The Texas Rangers and Choctaw Casinos & Resorts today announced a multi-year naming rights partnership for Globe Life Park in Arlington. The multi-purpose sports and...
Ute Mountain Casino Hotel Opens Its First-Ever Sportsbook
Indian Energy, LLC Founder Allen G. Cadreau (right) accepts the Business of the Year Award.TOWAOC, CO – In late August of this year, the Ute Mountain Casino Hotel has announced its plan to open the first-ever retail sportsbook powered by IGT’s market-leading...
BetMGM Partners with Gila River Hotels & Casinos and Arizona Cardinals for Sports Betting
Gila River Hotels & Casinos operates three Arizona locations, all owned by the Gila River Indian Community: Wild Horse Pass, Lone Butte, and Vee Quiva. All three will feature custom built BetMGM Sportsbooks, set to open near football season, reflective of its...
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Our Success & Finance issue charts the business breakthroughs of Tribes and Tribal entrepreneurs in “The Greatest Success Stories of 2019.” We also pay homage to perseverance and tireless devotion to Indian Country. Ernie Stevens, Jr., and Cheryl Stevens, his wife of 37 years, grace one of the covers. We honor Ernie Stevens’ nearly 20 years of stewardship to Indian gaming as Chairman of NIGA. Tunica-Biloxi Chairman Marshall Pierite is featured on the opposite cover. He shares how gaming helped his Tribe “to transition from a surviving community to a thriving community,” and reflects on recent success in the financial services industry. We shine a light on financial institutions, such as Stearns Bank, and consider the investment strategy of Mno-Bmadsen. Meanwhile, the DOE’s James E. Campos, underscores: “Energy is our new economy, it is our new currency, and Native Americans play a large part in this equation.”
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Native American Contractors Association Elects Board of Directors, Names New Co-Chairs
NACA also announces newest members - Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana, Seminole Tribe of Florida and Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe. Washington, DC –The Native American Contractors Association (NACA) today announces members of its board of directors, elected during the...
Wizipan Little Elk Selected as Bush Fellowship Award Recipient
REDCO CEO, Little Elk, hopes to use his Bush Fellowship to revolutionize social impact investing in Indian Country. Rosebud, SD -- Wizipan Little Elk (Sicangu Lakota Oyate) was selected for the 2021 Bush Fellowship award. Little Elk is the CEO of Rosebud Economic...
Native Business Video Learning: Watch This Empowering Virtual Biz Spotlight feat. Tim Roberts, VP of International Expansion at Cherokee Nation Businesses
Cherokee Nation Businesses has a global footprint with several thousand professionals in 50 States, 26 countries and 2 territories.Enjoy this insightful and inspiring Native Business Virtual Summit Biz "Spotlight" featuring Tim Roberts, Vice President of International...
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Augustine Band of Cahuilla Indians Rewards Essential Employees with “Hero Pay” for Dedication During Covid Pandemic
The Augustine Tribal Council voted to give its essential workers $10 additional pay for each hour worked during one of the most difficult years in recent memory. COACHELLA, Calif. — More than 70 tribal government and casino employees were presented with a surprise...
Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Lake Tahoe Announces Million Dollar Pro Football Frenzy
Participants can make weekly football picks and play free online games daily to win prizes. Stateline, NV. – Hotel Hard Rock Hotel & Casino will take part in the Million Dollar Pro Football Frenzy now - Feb. 13, 2022. Participants can make weekly football picks...
Snoqualmie Casino Launches First Sportsbook in Washington State on Opening Day of the NFL Season
Snoqualmie Casino received regulatory approval on August 31, allowing the licensing of vendors, one of the final steps in opening. Snoqualmie, WA – The Snoqualmie Casino made history on September 9, 2021 with the opening of the first sportsbook in Washington State....
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Native Business Video Learning: Watch Entrepreneur Mentoring & Insights from JC Seneca: Founder, Tallchief Hemp, Native Pride Travel Plaza and Six Nations Manufacturing
Mr. Seneca is a member of the Seneca Nation and started his first business in 1987. Enjoy this insightful and inspiring Native Business Virtual Summit broadcast interview delivering entrepreneur mentoring from Mr. JC Seneca who is the Founder of Tallchief Hemp,...
Winnebago Company Launches Smokable CBD Hemp Product
The new product is called Niota (pronounced NYE-Oh-tah). WINNEBAGO, Nebraska – A new business started by the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska’s economic development entity has launched its first hemp product, a smokable preroll made with CBD flower. Winnebago Agriculture...
Native Business Video Learning: Watch this Interview with Successful Native American Entrepreneur JC Seneca
JC Seneca continues the expansion of his impressive entrepreneurial empire. Enjoy this one on one interview with this One-on-One Interview with JC Seneca – Founder, Tallchief Hemp. In this informative interview conducted by Native Business Founder and Publisher, Gary...
Cannabis Providing Economic Turnaround on the Yerington-Paiute Reservation
Working with Tribal Cannabis Consultants the Yerington-Paiute Tribe has revitalized. Yerington, NV - According to MJBiz Daily in 2020 cannabis was a $15 billion dollar industry and with the help of Tribal Cannabis Consultants the Yerington-Paiute tribe in Nevada is...
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American Indigenous Business Leaders & American Indian Graduate Center Award $20K to Native Student Entrepreneurs
Inaugural Business Pitch Competition hosted at AIBL’s annual national conference in Las Vegas. Missoula, MT – American Indigenous Business Leaders (AIBL) and American Indian Graduate Center partnered to award $20K to four Native American student entrepreneurs to...
The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center Campus Announces Additional Tenants at Avanyu Plaza
Retail phase II development includes popular dessert shop and plant-based foods eatery. Albuquerque, NM — The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center Campus recently announced additional tenants for Phase II of its retail development at Avanyu Plaza, which is located across...
Amazon’s Represent the Future Summit is Back
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Indigenous-Developed Simulation Space Planned for WSU Spokane with Bank of America Grant
WSU Health Sciences students learn and practice in a simulation space in the Center for Native American Health. Historically, Indigenous communities have experienced lower health status and lower life expectancies, in part due to a lack of cultural understanding by...
IA2 Receives CDC Foundation Funding to Bring Respite Care, Caregiver Support and Training to Indian country and Alaska Native Communities
Through two innovative partnerships, IA2 will expand best practices for caregiving and provide direct support for respite care to tribal and urban Native communities nationally. The International Association for Indigenous Aging (IA2) announces a grant project...
American Indigenous Business Leaders & American Indian Graduate Center Award $20K to Native Student Entrepreneurs
Inaugural Business Pitch Competition hosted at AIBL’s annual national conference in Las Vegas. Missoula, MT – American Indigenous Business Leaders (AIBL) and American Indian Graduate Center partnered to award $20K to four Native American student entrepreneurs to...
From Batter to Bubbles: Justine Osceola Shares Her Entrepreneurial Journey
Justine Osceola, Founder of Made by Justine O LLC, originally started her career baking cakes. She soon discovered the demand, and her love, of making soaps. (Courtesy Justine Osceola)This article originally appeared in the summer 2019 edition of Native Business...
Unearth Sustainable Joy With Joy Huntington
Joy Huntington, Founder of Uqaqti Consulting and the Joy Huntington brand has had the courage to take risks. (Courtesy Isaiah Mangum - Fairbanks Brand Studio)This article originally appeared in the summer 2019 edition of Native Business Magazine. Success wasn’t handed...
Gila River Indian Community Member Completes Arizona Coyotes Mentorship Program
Tyler Owens at Gila River Arena on June 24, 2021 in Glendale, Arizona. (Photo by Kelsey Grant/Arizona Coyotes) Mentees applying for the program in the future will have the ability to shadow many different departments including the Arizona Coyotes Foundation,...
First Northwest Bancorp Appoints Gabriel Galanda to its Board of Directors
Galanda, who was born and raised in Port Angeles, Washington, is the managing lawyer at Galanda Broadman. He has been named to Best Lawyers in America in the field of Native American Law from 2007 to 2021 and dubbed a Super Lawyer by his peers from 2013 to 2021. PORT...
SSBCI Allocating $500M to Tribal Governments; Deadline to Submit Notice of Intent to Apply is July 30th
Bold Concepts and ACTIVBonding Can Provide Surety Credit by Utilizing Bonding Collateral Pool. Pictured above: Kevin Wimsatt, Chief Executive Officer of Bold Concepts. Included in the American Rescue Plan Act, which President Biden signed in March, was $10 billion...
Indigenous-Developed Simulation Space Planned for WSU Spokane with Bank of America Grant
WSU Health Sciences students learn and practice in a simulation space in the Center for Native American Health. Historically, Indigenous communities have experienced lower health status and lower life expectancies, in part due to a lack of cultural understanding by...
Snoqualmie Casino Launches First Sportsbook in Washington State on Opening Day of the NFL Season
Snoqualmie Casino received regulatory approval on August 31, allowing the licensing of vendors, one of the final steps in opening. Snoqualmie, WA – The Snoqualmie Casino made history on September 9, 2021 with the opening of the first sportsbook in Washington State....
BetMGM Partners with Gila River Hotels & Casinos and Arizona Cardinals for Sports Betting
Gila River Hotels & Casinos operates three Arizona locations, all owned by the Gila River Indian Community: Wild Horse Pass, Lone Butte, and Vee Quiva. All three will feature custom built BetMGM Sportsbooks, set to open near football season, reflective of its...
DOE Awards $12 Million to American Indian and Alaska Native Communities
Funding to maximize deployment of energy technology. WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced today $12 million in funding to 13 American Indian and Alaska Native communities across the nation for projects that will reduce energy costs and...
Wyoming Tribes Take Over Ownership of the Circle Ridge Oil and Gas Field
“Today is the most significant milestone in the history of the sovereignty of the Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone Tribes of the Wind River Indian Reservation,” said Shoshone Business Council Chairman John St. Clair. Ft. Washakie, WY -- The Eastern Shoshone and...
Native Business Podcast – Episode 15: DOE Tribal Energy Opportunities and Indian Energy, LLC Microgrid Solutions
On episode 15 of the Native Business Podcast, recorded in November of 2020 during the Native Business Virtual Summit broadcast, your host and the founder/publisher of Native Business Magazine, Gary Davis (Cherokee Nation), is joined by former leaders of the U.S....
Augustine Band of Cahuilla Indians Rewards Essential Employees with “Hero Pay” for Dedication During Covid Pandemic
The Augustine Tribal Council voted to give its essential workers $10 additional pay for each hour worked during one of the most difficult years in recent memory. COACHELLA, Calif. — More than 70 tribal government and casino employees were presented with a surprise...
San Manuel’s 22nd Annual Charity Golf Tournament Raises $350k for Seven Nonprofits
Photo taken during The San Manuel Golf Tournament’s charity donation event at the Salt Creek Grille in Laguna Beach, CA. The funds will support organizations in healthcare, education and Native American causes. Photo by (Eric Reed/San Manuel Band of Mission Indians). ...
Amazon’s Represent the Future Summit is Back
Amazon’s second annual virtual career enrichment experience to uplift Black, Latinx, and Native American professionals of all backgrounds and levels of experience is happening August 24th & 25th! At Native Business Magazine, our #1 focus is the empowerment and...