Joy Huntington, Koyukon Athabascan, was once expelled from an Alaska boarding school is now one of Indian Country’s business success stories.
READ MOREWolf’s Run: How Willie Met Sally and Turned Two Gas Pumps Into a Multi-Enterprise Business
by Theresa Baine | Sep 23, 2019 | Entrepreneurship, Featured, Features, Profiles
In the late 1980s Willie Parry owned two gas pumps and a rack of cigarettes, now he and his wife have grown Wolf’s Run into a multi-enterprise business.
READ MOREKawi Café: Grounds for Entrepreneurship Training and Transition
by Native Business Staff | Sep 17, 2019 | Entrepreneurship, Featured, Features, Innovation
Kawi Café gives new meaning to a caffeine “pick me up.” Kawi, which means “coffee” in Cherokee, is more than a neighborhood café in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. It’s a place for aspiring entrepreneurs to receive hands-on experience in management and the restaurant industry.
READ MOREIn Memoriam: Larry Kinley — The Man, Not The Legend
by Renae Ditmer | Sep 16, 2019 | Entrepreneurship, Features, Profiles
Larry George Kinley, the longest-serving Chairman of the Lummi Nation, passed away in February 2018 after a battle with cancer.
READ MOREThe MHA Nation Wants to Feed the World in a Food Sovereignty Revolution
by Andrew Ricci | Sep 11, 2019 | Agriculture, Energy, Featured, Features, Innovation
In 2017, Mark Fox, Chairman of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara (MHA) Nation, stumbled across an article in National Geographic that he couldn’t stop thinking about.
READ MOREMHA Nation: A Vision for Economic Sovereignty
by Andrew Ricci | Sep 2, 2019 | Energy, Featured, Features, Natural Resources, Tourism
Mark Fox, Chairman of the MHA Nation, sees the tribe generating its own power, raising and consuming its own food, and exporting their own goods.
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