How a Shoshone-Bannock Entrepreneur Funded her Dream: Bison Coffeehouse
Native Business interviewed Loretta Guzman pre-pandemic. Her Portland-based coffee shop is open and serving. Follow her on Instagram @bisoncoffeehouse for real-time updates. The name Bison Coffeehouse came to Loretta Guzman in a dream, while she was ill in the...
How a Lakota Woodworker Funded His Business: 10 Q’s With Stephan Cheney
Stephan Cheney, a young Lakota entrepreneur of the Kul Wicasa Oyate fromt the Lower Brule, South Dakota, hunts for wood around his Northern California home to make his signature furniture. “I collect a lot of pieces of wood randomly along the way,” says the discerning...
National Museum of the American Indian Celebrates Earth Day with its Annual Living Earth Festival
Image credit: duncan1890 Online Festival Features Native American Business Representatives, Films and Youth Leaders on Sustainability and Innovation in Indigenous Agriculture. Washington, D.C. -- In celebration of Earth Day, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the...
Carmen Davis Speaks to Entrepreneurship, Infrastructure During Indian Country Business Leaders Panel
Native Business Founder, Publisher and Executive Editor Carmen Davis (left), an enrolled member of the Makah Tribe and also Chippewa-Cree and Yakama, recently spoke on a virtual panel entitled Indian Country Business Leaders for Biden. She participated at the request...
10 Questions With Douglas Miles on Self-Capitalizing APACHE Skateboards
Douglas Miles’ drive to succeed as an entrepreneur came from a self-determination so powerful, it was like the will to survive, he says. “In the process, I also felt like I was doing something revolutionary—taking and putting a Native American stamp on something...
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Treasury Extends Deadline to Upload Tribal Data for $3.2B Allocations
While nearly 60 percent of the CARES Act’s $8 billion Tribal set aside has been disbursed based on population data (and, according to a Harvard study, possibly by faulty means), $3.2 billion remains in limbo. The funds are held up in part due to challenges by Tribes...
Minority & Native-Owned Businesses Face Higher Risk of Becoming Crisis Casualties
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, minority-owned small businesses are facing dramatic economic casualties, as they struggle to access pandemic-related financial relief. During the Great Recession, entrepreneurs of color were left behind. Once again, a crisis is...
Seneca Gaming Corp. Reduces Annuity Payments, Appoints Interim CEO
The Seneca Nation will initiate a phased, multi-week reopening process of its three gaming facilities in early June.The coronavirus pandemic has impacted not only the Seneca Nation's health system but its economy. With three casinos closed, and nearly 4,000...
Chehalis Tribe’s Distillery Pivots From Spirits to Hand Sanitizer
Rather than craft-distilled liquor, the first product that came out of distillation tanks on the Chehalis Reservation was hand sanitizer.Come late June, partners the Chehalis Tribe of Indians and Heritage Distilling Company will officially debut their 35,000...
Lance Morgan on Ho-Chunk, Inc.’s 25-Year History of Growth
Lance Morgan was 25 years old when he was tasked with figuring out how to diversify the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska’s economy away from gaming. (Courtesy Ho-Chunk, Inc.)This feature originally appeared as the cover story of the March 2019 “Infrastructure” print...
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