Arizona Tribes Sign Historic Gaming Compact With State, Opening Door for Casino Expansions, New Table Games, and Sports Betting
Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, middle, and Arizona tribal leaders put their signatures on a document at a bill signing allowing a major expansion of sports betting in Arizona at an event at the Heard Museum Thursday, April 15, 2021, in Phoenix. The measure...
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...
The MBDA American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Business Center Grant Competition is Open
Register now for the June 8th pre-application conference and learn more about this opportunity. The Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) is seeking proposals to operate one of 13 American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian (AIANNH) MBDA Business...
Native Business Video Learning: Watch Keynote Remarks from Cherokee Nation Principal Chief, Chuck Hoskin, Jr.
Cherokee Nation Principal Chief, Chuck Hoskin, Jr., addresses the challenges faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, growing Tribal communities through bettering the quality of education, job creation, housing, healthcare and much more. Enjoy these keynote...
Native Business Video Learning: Watch this Gaming Roundtable w/Tribal Leaders of Mississippi Band of Choctaws, Mescalero Apache Tribe & National Indian Gaming Association
Native Business Virtual Summit Gaming Roundtable: Our roundtable discussion evaluates how Tribes continue to build on the success of gaming. Enjoy this informative Native Business Virtual Summit Gaming Roundtable: "Advancing Indian Gaming Past the Coronavirus...
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Hard Rock International to Grow its Global Online Presence With Hard Rock Digital
Hard Rock International has launched Hard Rock Digital, a vehicle for interactive gaming and sports betting, globally. (Hard Rock Digital)In 2006, the Seminole Tribe of Florida acquiredHard Rock International in a $965 million deal. Since then, the international...
Harvest Nation’s Indoor Aeroponic Farming Systems Solve Food Insecurity, Boost Local Economies
Denise Pieratos (top left), the primary founder and CEO of Harvest Nation, was recently recognized as one of the most influential persons of the year by Twin Cities Business Magazine. Her co-founders are her daughters Dani Pieratos (top right) and Nicole (Nikki) Love...
Cherokee Nation Management & Consulting Improving Water Quality at Fort Bliss
Since 2015, a Cherokee Nation Management & Consulting team has improved water quality and trained hundreds of soldiers and civilians on the importance of pollution prevention at Fort Bliss. (Courtesy Cherokee Federal)Since 2015, a Cherokee Nation Management &...
CME Group Launched World’s First Water Futures Contract; Here’s How Indian Country Can Prepare
The CME Group has launched the world’s first futures contract to trade water like oil or gold. Water is sacred to Indian Country. Water is life. It's one of our greatest resources. It’s also an asset. A sovereign Tribal Nation supplying water to its community is an...
Cleveland MLB Team Drops Indians Name
The Cleveland baseball franchise was known as the Indians for 105 years, but decades of Indigenous protest of the racist name prevailed. The team will temporarily be called the Cleveland Baseball Team, akin to the Washington Football Team that formerly used the racial...
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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...
A Backstage Pass to Top Entertainment Venues in Indian Country
According to a 2018 Nielsen Music report, 52 percent of the U.S. population attends a live music event each year. For many Tribal enterprises with entertainment venues in their business mix, that’s music to their ears. In 2017 alone, revenue from concert ticket sales...
Navajo Geoscience Engineer at Sandia Named 2019 Most Promising Engineer or Scientist by AISES
Dylan Moriarty’s main project at Sandia involves monitoring ongoing site integrity of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
Navajo Nation Calls T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Essential to its Economic Recovery
The Navajo Nation supports the $26 billion T-Mobile/Sprint merger, saying it will provide the infrastructure for 21st Century reservation jobs.
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Chickasaw Management Services to Operate Army Museum Experiential Learning Center
Chickasaw Nation’s Chickasaw Management Services will provide all personnel and services necessary to operate the National Museum of the United States Army Experiential Learning Center under a five-year $4 million contract. The National Museum of the United States...
Meet Joy Huntington, Founder of Uqaqti Consulting and a Native Business Top 50 Entrepreneur
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.
Meet Clara Pratte, Founder of Strongbow Strategies and a Native Business Top 50 Entrepreneur
“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.
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San Manuel Casino Awards Rare $1 Million Jackpot to Guest
A San Manuel Casino Classic Club Serrano member hits a $1 million jackpot playing Fortune Pai Gow Poker Progressive®. Highland, California - San Manuel Casino just became the first California casino to award a $1 million progressive jackpot from a Scientific Games...
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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Osage Entrepreneur Geoff Hager Put Everything on the Line to Launch Big Elk
"You may have a solid business plan with great analytics, but at the end of the day, people invest in people. You have to get your message across in a short amount of time why someone would want to invest in you," says Geoff Hager, a direct descendant of Osage chief...
SAGE, Standing Rock-Owned Public Power Authority, to Develop Wind Farm
SAGE was created by and for the 8,000-member Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North and South Dakota. Pictured: Lakota Flag (Courtesy SAGE)SAGE Development Authority’s forthcoming utility-scale wind farm, “Anpetu Wi” on the Standing Rock Reservation, serves to advance...
When the Pandemic Hit, Bow & Arrow Faced the Storm — and Bought a Canning Line
Shyla Sheppard, co-founder of Bow & Arrow Brewing Company, has mastered the art of the pivot. When the pandemic hit, she bought a canning line. Sheppard is holding Bow & Arrow's new beer-wine hybrid “With Love from New Mexico” Golden Sour Ale. (Bow & Arrow...
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Cherokee Nation Remains a Steadying & Growing Economic Force With $2.2 Billion Impact on Oklahoma
Cherokee Nation made a $2.169 billion economic impact in the state in fiscal year 2018, reflecting an increase of about 7% from 2016 and more than 100% from 2010.
Stephanie A. Bryan, Poarch Band Tribal Chair & CEO, Is Improving Quality of Life Through the Family Business
Over the course of her lifetime, Stephanie A. Bryan, the Tribe’s Chair and CEO, has seen the Poarch Band evolve from an unrecognized group into an economic powerhouse.
Chief Burgers: Tribes Need to Support Original Concepts
Thomas Begay (Navajo, Hopi) and his wife Kendra Begay (Navajo, Hopi) saved $15,000 to purchase an old FedEx truck to house Chief Burgers, their gourmet burger and picadilly business on wheels, based in Window Rock, Arizona, on the Navajo Nation reservation.Thomas...
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Tunica-Biloxi Tribe Holds Rural Economic Development & Small Business Summit in Louisiana
The Tunica-Biloxi Tribe is helping to promote economic development and build the next generation entrepreneurial ecosystem in Louisiana.
Fourth Circuit Rules in Favor of Lac Vieux Desert, Determining That Lending Business Is an Arm of the Tribe Entitled to Sovereign Immunity
In a highly anticipated and long-awaited ruling handed down on July 3, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed that two companies owned by the Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians are indeed legitimate arms of the Tribe and as such, are entitled to Tribal sovereign immunity.
Native Business to Release the Inaugural Class of the Native Business Top 50 Entrepreneurs Online
Native Business will be rolling out profiles of the Native Business Top 50 Entrepreneurs online at NativeBusinessMag.com to further uplift and promote their great work.
Economic Development, Financial Management Experts Launch McCabe Consulting LLC
Sean McCabe [left] and Juan Massey [right] pose for a photo before a panel presentation at the 2020 Reservation Economic Summit in Las Vegas. (Courtesy McCabe Consulting LLC) Native American economic development, fiscal management and government policy experts have...
This Tribal Empire Is Responsible for the World’s First Live Slots
Innovation is the name of the game for casino properties across the world looking to appeal to an increasing demographic of virtual players. The difference between “live slots” and online slot games is players are controlling physical slot machines located inside a...
UND to Offer World’s First Doctoral Program in Indigenous Health
Dr. Donald Warne discusses American Indian health policy with UND Master of Public Health Program students at the School of Medicine & Health Sciences. (Photo by Mike Hess, University of North Dakota Photographer) University of North Dakota’s Indians Into Medicine...
‘Your Network Is Your Net Worth’: The Native Business Summit Is Underway, Building Bridges Across Indian Country
“Your network is your net worth,” said Gary Davis (Cherokee), Publisher of Native Business Magazine, “and that’s what we’re building here at the Native Business Summit.”
Premiere ‘Native Business Top 50 Entrepreneurs’ Issue Shines a Light on Business Visionaries Across Indian Country
Thousands of subscribers across North America, every member of Congress and all attendees of the Native Business Summit will soon hold in their hands the May 2019 “Native Business Top 50 Entrepreneurs” issue. Our debut “Native Business Top 50 Entrepreneurs” issue...
Native Businesses Prioritize Environmental Protection Beyond Earth Day
More than 193 countries are observing Earth Day today, April 22nd, to underscore the importance of environmental protection — a value embedded in Indigenous peoples worldwide, and a priority reflected in many Native-owned businesses across sectors.
Byron Bighorse: Failure Is Not an Option & I Embrace the Pressure
Byron Bighorse is a Native Business Top 30 CEO.Since 2014, Byron Bighorse (Osage) has been CEO of Osage Hotels and Casinos, where he is responsible for overseeing all facets of seven Osage casinos operating in northeastern Oklahoma — including more than 1,500...
Honoring Canada’s First Indigenous Woman to Lead a Commercial Lending Institution
The 2020 Indspire Award for Business and Commerce recognizes the groundbreaking career of Dawn Madahbee Leach — the first Indigenous woman in Canada to head up a commercial lending institution.
Lance Morgan: Building a Business From the Prairie to Prosperity
Lance Morgan is a Native Business Top 30 CEO.Lance Morgan (Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska) was 25 years old in 1994, when he was entrusted with $9 million in seed capital to start Ho-Chunk, Inc. Today, that company that started with one employee brings in roughly $250...