Koyukon Athabascan entrepreneur Joy Huntington is achieving her goals through a combination of grit, an inborn ability to foster productive communications between people, and a firm footing in her Tribal heritage.

“My mother always told me that there’s no such thing as saying, ‘That’s not my job,’” says Clara Pratte, CEO of Strongbow Strategies, a multi-disciplinary firm.

Today Tribal Tech, LLC, Victoria Vasques’ 8(a) startup, has an impressive and growing collection of awards as one of the fastest-growing small businesses in the Washington, D.C. federal marketplace.

Siblings Monica Simeon and Marina TurningRobe established Sister Sky in 1999. The Spokane citizens utilize ancestral, herbal wisdom and ethics to create natural hair and skin merchandise, and they continue carrying these principles into their newest venture, Sister Sky, Inc.