Amazon Is Ready to Represent the Future
Elizabeth Nieto, Head of Global Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Amazon Amazon is hosting their first-ever virtual career enrichment summit specifically designed to bring together Black, Latinx, and Native American Professionals. Anyone who is a regular Native...
First Seneca Nation Member Named to Lead Seneca Gaming Corporation
Kevin Nephew, an enrolled member of the Seneca Nation’s Wolf Clan, is responsible for having developed and launched the Seneca Gaming Corporation’s company-wide Continuous Improvement program, which has provided savings and efficiencies to the corporation.The...
From the Editor: The Diversity Case for Native American Inclusion
“Strong evidence reveals that more diverse companies are more innovative, yielding better business performance,” says Native Business Executive Editor Carmen Davis (Makah/Chippewa-Cree/Yakama).A reckoning is happening across the world, though particularly in the...
How the Mescalero Apache Turned a Remote Rockies Reservation Into a Tourism Mecca
The resort has two ziplines: The Apache Eagle ZipRider, a 2,668-foot glide across Lake Mescalero, and the Apache Wind Rider ZipTour, a three-leg tour that begins at 11,489 feet above sea level in elevation and spans nearly 9,000 feet, reaching speeds of up to 65 miles...
House Rules: How Free-Play Fuels Tribal Gaming Gains
The impact of free-play on casinos' bottom line is as yet unknown, but it's certainly a part of Tribal gaming. (Gilaxia via iStock by Getty Images)From free-play points to discounts at casino restaurants to comped reservations at luxury hotel suites, players know that...
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From the Editor: The Diversity Case for Native American Inclusion
“Strong evidence reveals that more diverse companies are more innovative, yielding better business performance,” says Native Business Executive Editor Carmen Davis (Makah/Chippewa-Cree/Yakama).A reckoning is happening across the world, though particularly in the...
Moose and Big Game Hunting on Penobscot Indian Lands
Penobscot hunting guide Scott Phillips, left, and hunter Jeff More search for moose in a birchbark canoe. Hunting begins in early fall. (Photo by James Kaiser)Moose and other big game hunting provide some economic return for the Penobscot Indian Nation, but perhaps...
Amazon Is Ready to Represent the Future
Elizabeth Nieto, Head of Global Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Amazon Amazon is hosting their first-ever virtual career enrichment summit specifically designed to bring together Black, Latinx, and Native American Professionals. Anyone who is a regular Native...
Cherokee Nation Businesses Takes on Preservation of Traditional Plants
Dala Kelley, cultural art coordinator for Cherokee Nation Businesses, helped her team save more than 50 plants traditionally known within Cherokee culture to provide medicinal benefits. (Courtesy Cherokee Nation Businesses)Often referred to as the economic engine of...
Circling Raven Achieves Record Golf Season During a Pandemic
Circling Raven, an amenity of the Coeur d’Alene Tribe’s Casino Resort Hotel, just closed out the best year it has ever had. (Courtesy Circling Raven)How did Circling Raven Golf Club finish its 16th season with some of the best revenue numbers it has ever seen? The...
First Seneca Nation Member Named to Lead Seneca Gaming Corporation
Kevin Nephew, an enrolled member of the Seneca Nation’s Wolf Clan, is responsible for having developed and launched the Seneca Gaming Corporation’s company-wide Continuous Improvement program, which has provided savings and efficiencies to the corporation.The...
How the Mescalero Apache Turned a Remote Rockies Reservation Into a Tourism Mecca
The resort has two ziplines: The Apache Eagle ZipRider, a 2,668-foot glide across Lake Mescalero, and the Apache Wind Rider ZipTour, a three-leg tour that begins at 11,489 feet above sea level in elevation and spans nearly 9,000 feet, reaching speeds of up to 65 miles...
Stitch Fix Launches Elevate Program to Support BIPOC Designers
Stitch Fix in partnership with Harlem’s Fashion Row will be choosing five BIPOC fashion designers to mentor and support. (Courtesy Stitch Fix)Stitch Fix, an online personal styling service, recently launched Elevate, an initiative to support and foster growth for...
Tulalip Resort Casino Wins Tripadvisor Award for Accommodations
Tulalip Resort Casino is within Quil Ceda Village on the Tulalip Tribes’ lands. (Courtesy Quil Ceda Village)Tulalip Resort Casino is housed within the 2,200-acre municipality Quil Ceda Village. The premium outlet mall touts several anchor stores, including Cabela’s,...
TANKA Brand Selected as USA Today’s 2020 10 Best Readers’ Choice Awards
The Tanka Slow-Smoked Original Gift Box is currently in the top 3 of 20 contenders for Best Gift for Outdoor Adventure. Voting ends October 26. Launched roughly 15 years ago on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, Native American Natural Foods (NANF)...
Tribal Solar Accelerator Fund Chooses 12 Tribes for New Clean Energy Projects
The Bishop Paiute Tribe is one of many past grantees of the Tribal Solar Accelerator Fund. (Courtesy Tribal Solar Accelerator Fund/GRID Alternatives)In its third year, the Tribal Solar Accelerator Fund aims to grow solar energy as well as solar job opportunities in...
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First Seneca Nation Member Named to Lead Seneca Gaming Corporation
Kevin Nephew, an enrolled member of the Seneca Nation’s Wolf Clan, is responsible for having developed and launched the Seneca Gaming Corporation’s company-wide Continuous Improvement program, which has provided savings and efficiencies to the corporation.The...
How the Mescalero Apache Turned a Remote Rockies Reservation Into a Tourism Mecca
The resort has two ziplines: The Apache Eagle ZipRider, a 2,668-foot glide across Lake Mescalero, and the Apache Wind Rider ZipTour, a three-leg tour that begins at 11,489 feet above sea level in elevation and spans nearly 9,000 feet, reaching speeds of up to 65 miles...
Stitch Fix Launches Elevate Program to Support BIPOC Designers
Stitch Fix in partnership with Harlem’s Fashion Row will be choosing five BIPOC fashion designers to mentor and support. (Courtesy Stitch Fix)Stitch Fix, an online personal styling service, recently launched Elevate, an initiative to support and foster growth for...
Native Business Virtual Summit 2020: Embracing Innovation to Empower Indian Country
The Native Business Virtual Summit 2020 broadcast will take place November 17-20, 2020, live streamed from the Native Business production studios. Native Business Founders and Publishers Gary and Carmen Davis will serve as the hosts of this year’s Summit. In November...
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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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ANCs Comprise More Than Half of Alaska Business Magazine’s Top 49 List, Account for $15B in Gross Revenue
Alaska Native Corporations (ANCs) accounted for more than half of Alaska Business Magazine's recently released “2020 Top 49ers” list. For the 26th consecutive year, Arctic Slope Regional Corporation (ASRC) anchored the list at #1 overall, responsible for more than...
How 8 Native Entrepreneurs Capitalized Their Businesses
Loretta Guzman, a member of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of Fort Hall, Idaho, paid her way through school as a barista, and also capitalized Bison Coffeehouse with her tips and through sales of her beadwork. (Courtesy Bison Coffeehouse) Native Business asked several...
Native Business Virtual Summit 2020: Embracing Innovation to Empower Indian Country
The Native Business Virtual Summit 2020 broadcast will take place November 17-20, 2020, live streamed from the Native Business production studios. Native Business Founders and Publishers Gary and Carmen Davis will serve as the hosts of this year’s Summit. In November...
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From the Editor: The Diversity Case for Native American Inclusion
“Strong evidence reveals that more diverse companies are more innovative, yielding better business performance,” says Native Business Executive Editor Carmen Davis (Makah/Chippewa-Cree/Yakama).A reckoning is happening across the world, though particularly in the...
First Seneca Nation Member Named to Lead Seneca Gaming Corporation
Kevin Nephew, an enrolled member of the Seneca Nation’s Wolf Clan, is responsible for having developed and launched the Seneca Gaming Corporation’s company-wide Continuous Improvement program, which has provided savings and efficiencies to the corporation.The...
How the Mescalero Apache Turned a Remote Rockies Reservation Into a Tourism Mecca
The resort has two ziplines: The Apache Eagle ZipRider, a 2,668-foot glide across Lake Mescalero, and the Apache Wind Rider ZipTour, a three-leg tour that begins at 11,489 feet above sea level in elevation and spans nearly 9,000 feet, reaching speeds of up to 65 miles...
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Bay Mills to Open Michigan’s First Tribally Owned Cannabis Marketplace
The Bay Mills Indian Community is slated to open Michigan’s first Tribally owned marijuana market later this fall. An all-in-one business, Northern Lights Cannabis Company will grow, process, test and sell recreational cannabis products from its campus on the upper...
Native Business Virtual Summit 2020: Embracing Innovation to Empower Indian Country
The Native Business Virtual Summit 2020 broadcast will take place November 17-20, 2020, live streamed from the Native Business production studios. Native Business Founders and Publishers Gary and Carmen Davis will serve as the hosts of this year’s Summit. In November...
Washington Tribes Leverage the Cannabis Economy
Remedy Tulalip is based in Quil Ceda Village, the Tulalip Tribes’ shopping/entertainment district, located off the I-5 corridor just north of Seattle. (Genna Martin, Courtesy Remedy Tulalip)This article originally appeared in the June 2019 “Tourism, Agriculture &...
A Beef With Ag Financing Leads to an Innovative Alternative
Zach Ducheneaux, the Intertribal Agriculture Council’s new executive director. (Photo by Chris Dickinson)This Q&A originally appeared in the June 2019 “Tourism, Agriculture & Natural Resources” print edition of Native Business Magazine. The Intertribal...
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TANKA Brand Selected as USA Today’s 2020 10 Best Readers’ Choice Awards
The Tanka Slow-Smoked Original Gift Box is currently in the top 3 of 20 contenders for Best Gift for Outdoor Adventure. Voting ends October 26. Launched roughly 15 years ago on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, Native American Natural Foods (NANF)...
Tribal Solar Accelerator Fund Chooses 12 Tribes for New Clean Energy Projects
The Bishop Paiute Tribe is one of many past grantees of the Tribal Solar Accelerator Fund. (Courtesy Tribal Solar Accelerator Fund/GRID Alternatives)In its third year, the Tribal Solar Accelerator Fund aims to grow solar energy as well as solar job opportunities in...
Harper’s Bazaar Shines a Light on Indigenous Entrepreneurs’ Sustainable Fashion Brands
Design by Erin Lux (Courtesy Harper’s Bazaar)Innovation is generally forward-thinking, but it can also be a revival of tradition — and then sold through the modern-day e-commerce market. That’s how Harper’s Bazaar is framing the innovation of fashion, while featuring...
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Gary “Litefoot” Davis, Notah Begay III and Other Speakers Announced for Tribal Coronavirus Summit
Gary “Litefoot” Davis (center), Notah Begay III (left), and other distinguished medical and economic professionals will be participating in the virtual summit hosted by Sean McCabe (right). The Tribal Leaders Coronavirus Strategic Response Virtual Summit announced...
McCabe’s Tribal Coronavirus Virtual Summit to Address Initiating Economic Recovery
Melvina McCabe, M.D., health policy adviser, and Sean McCabe, Founder of McCabe CPA & Consulting Group LLC, Diné certified CPA, and Native Business Top 50 Entrepreneur (Courtesy McCabe)McCabe CPA & Consulting Group LLC is organizing a summit to discuss the...
TANKA Brand Selected as USA Today’s 2020 10 Best Readers’ Choice Awards
The Tanka Slow-Smoked Original Gift Box is currently in the top 3 of 20 contenders for Best Gift for Outdoor Adventure. Voting ends October 26. Launched roughly 15 years ago on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, Native American Natural Foods (NANF)...
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...
A Beef With Ag Financing Leads to an Innovative Alternative
Zach Ducheneaux, the Intertribal Agriculture Council’s new executive director. (Photo by Chris Dickinson)This Q&A originally appeared in the June 2019 “Tourism, Agriculture & Natural Resources” print edition of Native Business Magazine. The Intertribal...
3 Native CDFIs to Deliver Influx of Capital & Coaching to Native Small Business Owners
Theresa Desautel opened her Red Willow Café on the Colville Reservation with assistance from the CDFI Northwest Native Development Fund. (Photo by Uzoma Obasi/Northwest Area Foundation)Relief is on the way for Native small business owners. A total of $6 million in...
Native Americans Seemingly Left Out of JPMorgan Chase’s $30B Commitment to Advance Racial Equity
JPMorgan Chase’s $30 billion commitment serves to “drive an inclusive economic recovery, support employees and break down barriers of systemic racism.” But its emphasis on Black and Latinx communities seemingly leaves Native Americans out of the equation. Pictured:...
Digital Innovation: Native American Bank Introduces Mobile App & More Tech-Forward Solutions
As President and CEO Thomas Ogaard has emphasized to us, Native American Bank is committed to being forward-thinking in Indian Country, as well as in the banking industry at large. “I see technological innovation as being a key component to what we do,” Ogaard...
Stitch Fix Launches Elevate Program to Support BIPOC Designers
Stitch Fix in partnership with Harlem’s Fashion Row will be choosing five BIPOC fashion designers to mentor and support. (Courtesy Stitch Fix)Stitch Fix, an online personal styling service, recently launched Elevate, an initiative to support and foster growth for...
Cherokee Nation’s Green Energy Investments to Help Reach 25% Carbon Emissions Reduction Goal by 2027
Sixty-six solar panels were recently installed on the roof of Tri-Community W.E.B. Association, which provides low-cost, homemade meals to Cherokee elders. (Cherokee Nation)Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. says the Tribe has a “sacred responsibility”...
On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Honoring Our Ancestors Who Built and Sustained Thriving Economies
Fourteen states — Alabama, Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Vermont, and Wisconsin — as well as the District of Columbia and more than 130 cities celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day in place...
Tribal Solar Accelerator Fund Chooses 12 Tribes for New Clean Energy Projects
The Bishop Paiute Tribe is one of many past grantees of the Tribal Solar Accelerator Fund. (Courtesy Tribal Solar Accelerator Fund/GRID Alternatives)In its third year, the Tribal Solar Accelerator Fund aims to grow solar energy as well as solar job opportunities in...
Cherokee Nation’s Green Energy Investments to Help Reach 25% Carbon Emissions Reduction Goal by 2027
Sixty-six solar panels were recently installed on the roof of Tri-Community W.E.B. Association, which provides low-cost, homemade meals to Cherokee elders. (Cherokee Nation)Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. says the Tribe has a “sacred responsibility”...
Indian Energy LLC Awarded $1.2M by California Energy Commission to Demonstrate Energy Storage Solution
Allen G. Cadreau, CEO of Indian Energy (right), shakes the hand of U.S. Army Major General Christopher Donahue (left). (Courtesy Indian Energy) Without a storage solution, 100% renewable energy penetration is not possible. Indian Energy, LLC holds the final key to...
First Seneca Nation Member Named to Lead Seneca Gaming Corporation
Kevin Nephew, an enrolled member of the Seneca Nation’s Wolf Clan, is responsible for having developed and launched the Seneca Gaming Corporation’s company-wide Continuous Improvement program, which has provided savings and efficiencies to the corporation.The...
Native Women Lead Hires Alicia Ortega to Helm Organization’s Next Step
Native Women Lead has hired Alicia Ortega, former executive director of All Pueblo Council of Governors, to steer the organization into the future. (Courtesy Native Women Lead)Former All Pueblo Council of Governors Executive Director Alicia Ortega, Pueblos of Pojoaque...
Native Business Virtual Summit 2020: Embracing Innovation to Empower Indian Country
The Native Business Virtual Summit 2020 broadcast will take place November 17-20, 2020, live streamed from the Native Business production studios. Native Business Founders and Publishers Gary and Carmen Davis will serve as the hosts of this year’s Summit. In November...