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| cherokee nation small business: Sovereign Entrepreneurs Courtney Lewis, 2019-04-10 By 2009, reverberations of economic crisis spread from the United States around the globe. As corporations across the United States folded, however, small businesses on the Qualla Boundary of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) continued to thrive. In this rich ethnographic study, Courtney Lewis reveals the critical roles small businesses such as these play for Indigenous nations. The EBCI has an especially long history of incorporated, citizen-owned businesses located on their lands. When many people think of Indigenous-owned businesses, they stop with prominent casino gaming operations or natural-resource intensive enterprises. But on the Qualla Boundary today, Indigenous entrepreneurship and economic independence extends to art galleries, restaurants, a bookstore, a funeral parlor, and more. Lewis's fieldwork followed these businesses through the Great Recession and against the backdrop of a rapidly expanding EBCI-owned casino. Lewis's keen observations reveal how Eastern Band small business owners have contributed to an economic sovereignty that empowers and sustains their nation both culturally and politically. |
| cherokee nation small business: S. 1022, a Bill to Make Small Businesses Owned by American Indian Tribes Eligible for the SBA (8) (a) Program United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Small Business, 1983 |
| cherokee nation small business: Leadership Lessons from the Cherokee Nation DIGITAL AUDIO Chad "Corntassel" Smith, 2013-03-15 If you want to be successful, it is this simple. Know what you are doing, love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing. -- Will Rogers When Chad Smith became Principal Chief, the Cherokee Nation was a chaotic and dysfunctional entity. By the end of his tenure, 12 years later, the Nation had grown its assets from $150 million to $1.2 billion, increased business profits 2,000 percent, created 6,000 jobs, and dramatically advanced its education, language, and cultural preservation programs. How could one team influence such vast positive change? The Cherokee Nation's dramatic transformation was the result of Smith's principle-based leadership approach and his unique Point A to Point B model--the simple but profound idea that the more you focus on the final goal, the more you will accomplish . . . and the more you will learn along the way. In other words, look at the end rather than getting caught up in tanglefoot. In Leadership Lessons from the Cherokee Nation, Smith combines Cherokee wisdom handed down from generation to generation with a smart leadership approach that takes today's very real issues into consideration. He explains why this leadership approach works and how you can apply it to your own organization, whether business, government, or nonprofit. Learn all the lessons that drive powerful leadership, including how to: Be a lifelong learner Solve problems with creativity and innovation Recruit and develop strong leaders Delegate wisely Act with integrity and dignity Don't be distracted from your objective Lead by example More than a simple how-to leadership guide, Leadership Lessons from the Cherokee Nation offers a holistic approach to the subject--how to become a powerful leader inside and direct your energy outward to accomplish any goal you set your mind to. Praise for Leadership Lessons from the Cherokee Nation: These are lessons that can be applied to every organization. Principal Chief Smith's book on leadership is sound and provides steps for every business and organization to improve. -- Frank Keating, President and CEO, American banker's Association, and former Governor of Oklahoma An indelible chronicling of time-proven elements for tribal and organizational success; just as applicable today as they were a thousand years ago. -- Jay Hannah, Cherokee Citizen, Executive Vice President of Financial Service, BancFirst, and former Chairman of the 1999 Cherokee Constitution Convention A remarkable account of how the Cherokee Nation reached a pinnacle of success by incorporating common elements of planning, group action, and sharing credit for that success. -- Ross Swimmer, former Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation 1975-1985 and former Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, US Department of the Interior Chief Smith shares stories with lessons that work in business; it is not where we are, but where we aspire to go that counts. -- Harold Hamm, Chairman and CEO, Continental Resources, Inc. Chief Smith shares from a Cherokee perspective how to get from where you are to where you want to go. -- Archie Dunham, Independent Non-Executive Chairman, Chesapeake Energy, and former Chairman, ConocoPhillips Outlines the reasons for the Nation's amazing growth and stability during [Chief Smith's] term. His principles of organization, leadership, and caring make sense; they work in all organizations. -- David Tippeconnic, CEO, Arrow-Magnolia International, Inc., and former President and CEO, CITGO Petroleum Corp. |
| cherokee nation small business: SBA Authorization and Other Small Business Legislation United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on SBA and SBIC Authority, Minority Enterprise, and General Small Business Problems, 1983 |
| cherokee nation small business: Oklahoma Black Cherokees Ty Wilson & Karen Coody Cooper, 2017 Over the generations, Cherokee citizens became a conglomerate people. Early in the nineteenth century, tribal leaders adapted their government to mirror the new American model. While accommodating institutional slavery of black people, they abandoned the Cherokee matrilineal clan structure that once determined their citizenship. The 1851 census revealed a total population nearing 18,000, which included 1,844 slaves and 64 free blacks. What it means to be Cherokee has continued to evolve over the past century, yet the histories assembled here by Ty Wilson, Karen Coody Cooper and other contributing authors reveal a meaningful story of identity and survival. |
| cherokee nation small business: Mary and the Trail of Tears Andrea L. Rogers, 2020 It is June first and twelve-year-old Mary does not really understand what is happening: she does not understand the hatred and greed of the white men who are forcing her Cherokee family out of their home in New Echota, Georgia, capital of the Cherokee Nation, and trying to steal what few things they are allowed to take with them, she does not understand why a soldier killed her grandfather--and she certainly does not understand how she, her sister, and her mother, are going to survive the 1000 mile trip to the lands west of the Mississippi. |
| cherokee nation small business: How the World Was Made: A Cherokee Story Brad Wagnon, Alex Stephenson, 2021-08-10 How the World Was Made is a traditional Cherokee creation story. It takes place during a time when animals did many of the things that people can do. When the earth was young, the animals lived on a rock above it, and the earth was covered with water. The animals needed more room, but where could they find it? This book retells the delightful Cherokee tale of how the earth was created, while teaching the valuable lesson that even the smallest creature can make a big difference. Written in both Cherokee and English so readers can become acquainted with the Cherokee syllabary and language. |
| cherokee nation small business: Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1992: Testimony of public witnesses for Indian programs United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies, 1991 |
| cherokee nation small business: Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1992 United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies, 1991 |
| cherokee nation small business: Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents , 1987 |
| cherokee nation small business: Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications , 1987 |
| cherokee nation small business: The Small Business Administration's 8(a) Minority Business Development Program United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Small Business, 1995 |
| cherokee nation small business: The Internal Revenue Service and Small Businesses United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business, 2014 |
| cherokee nation small business: The Effects of Government Regulations on Small Business and the Problems of Women and Minorities in Small Business in the Southwestern United States United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business, 1977 |
| cherokee nation small business: Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Select Committee on Small Business United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business, 1977 |
| cherokee nation small business: Promise Fulfilled United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs (1993- ), 2011 Also available in print and online. |
| cherokee nation small business: Historically Underutilized Businesses U.S. Commission on Minority Business Development, 1992 |
| cherokee nation small business: Federal Prison Industries, Inc.--UNICOR United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Intellectual Property and Judicial Administration, 1994 This document records the oral and written testimony of witnesses at a Congressional hearing on UNICOR, Federal Prison Industries, Inc., a self-supporting government corporation created in 1934 to formalize prison management efforts to provide dependable work for the greatest number of inmates. The hearing centered on concerns about providing enough work for federal prisoners to learn from it and to be kept occupied and from private sector concerns about displacing work that can be done by private firms. Witnesses included representatives of manufacturers, labor unions, prison management associations, and government agencies. Various proposals were made to increase the labor-intensive aspects of prisoner work without displacing private companies from selling to the federal government. Industry representatives opposed mandatory preference for prison work-products for purchase by the federal government. Discussion was not conclusive. (KC) |
| cherokee nation small business: Indigenous Peoples and International Trade John Borrows, Risa Schwartz, 2020-06-18 The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is seen primarily as an international human rights instrument. However, the Declaration also encompasses cultural, social and economic rights. Taken in the context of international trade and investment, the UN Declaration is a valuable tool to support economic self-determination of Indigenous peoples. This volume explores the emergence of Indigenous peoples' participation in international trade and investment, as well as how it is shaping legal instruments in environment and trade, intellectual property and traditional knowledge. One theme that is explored is agency. From amicus interventions at the World Trade Organization to developing a future precedent for a 'Trade and Indigenous Peoples Chapter', Indigenous peoples are asserting their right to patriciate in decision-making. The authors, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous experts on trade and investment legal, provide needed ideas and recommendations for governments, academia and policy thinkers to achieve economic reconciliation. |
| cherokee nation small business: Report of Program Activities, Fiscal Year ... United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Muskogee Area Office, 1971 |
| cherokee nation small business: Reclaiming Economic Sovereignty Bettina Tara Schneider, 2009 |
| cherokee nation small business: Circular Z. National Fertilizer Development Center (U.S.), 1970 |
| cherokee nation small business: Small Business Development in Indian Country United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Small Business, 1994 |
| cherokee nation small business: Indians of Oklahoma Donald Ricky, 1999-01-01 There is a great deal of information on the native peoples of the United States, which exists largely in national publications. Since much of Native American history occurred before statehood, there is a need for information on Native Americans of the region to fully understand the history and culture of the native peoples that occupied Oklahoma and the surrounding areas. Indians of Oklahoma fills this void that exists in many library collections. Articles on tribes and nations indigenous to, or associated with, the state and region are included in this work. Biographies, daily life and general subject articles of Native Americans are included in this unique set. Many recorded Indian Treaties with the government of the United States from as early as the 1700s are also included in this work. |
| cherokee nation small business: Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs , 1906 |
| cherokee nation small business: Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior for the Year ... United States. Office of Indian Affairs, 1906 |
| cherokee nation small business: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2003 United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies, 2002 |
| cherokee nation small business: Individual and Social Adaptions to Human Vulnerability Donald C. Wood, 2018-12-14 This volume celebrates the 40th anniversary of the 'Research in Economic Anthropology' series, presenting ten peer-reviewed anthropological papers looking at human vulnerability, the ways people attempt to cope with it and barriers to successfully overcoming it. |
| cherokee nation small business: The Five Civilized Tribes of Indian Territory United States. Census Office. 11th census, 1890, Thomas Donaldson, 1893 |
| cherokee nation small business: Play Me Something Quick and Devilish Howard Wight Marshall, 2013-01-01 Play Me Something Quick and Devilish explores the heritage of traditional fiddle music in Missouri. Howard Wight Marshall considers the place of homemade music in people’s lives across social and ethnic communities from the late 1700s to the World War I years and into the early 1920s. This exceptionally important and complex period provided the foundations in history and settlement for the evolution of today’s old-time fiddling. Beginning with the French villages on the Mississippi River, Marshall leads us chronologically through the settlement of the state and how these communities established our cultural heritage. Other core populations include the “Old Stock Americans” (primarily Scotch-Irish from Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia), African Americans, German-speaking immigrants, people with American Indian ancestry (focusing on Cherokee families dating from the Trail of Tears in the 1830s), and Irish railroad workers in the post–Civil War period. These are the primary communities whose fiddle and dance traditions came together on the Missouri frontier to cultivate the bounty of old-time fiddling enjoyed today. Marshall also investigates themes in the continuing evolution of fiddle traditions. These themes include the use of the violin in Westward migration, in the Civil War years, and in the railroad boom that changed history. Of course, musical tastes shift over time, and the rise of music literacy in the late Victorian period, as evidenced by the brass band movement and immigrant music teachers in small towns, affected fiddling. The contributions of music publishing as well as the surprising importance of ragtime and early jazz also had profound effects. Much of the old-time fiddlers’ repertory arises not from the inherited reels, jigs, and hornpipes from the British Isles, nor from the waltzes, schottisches, and polkas from the Continent, but from the prolific pens of Tin Pan Alley. Marshall also examines regional styles in Missouri fiddling and comments on the future of this time-honored, and changing, tradition. Documentary in nature, this social history draws on various academic disciplines and oral histories recorded in Marshall’s forty-some years of research and field experience. Historians, music aficionados, and lay people interested in Missouri folk heritage—as well as fiddlers, of course—will find Play Me Something Quick and Devilish an entertaining and enlightening read. With 39 tunes, the enclosed Voyager Records companion CD includes a historic sampler of Missouri fiddlers and styles from 1955 to 2012. A media kit is available here: press.umsystem.edu/pages/PlayMeSomethingQuickandDevilish.aspx |
| cherokee nation small business: Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended ... United States. Office of Indian Affairs, 1899 |
| cherokee nation small business: American Indian Report , 1999 Report covers news and events in and actions impacting the Indian community. |
| cherokee nation small business: Re-creating the Circle Stephen M. Sachs, Barbara Morris, 2011-12-16 A collaboration between Native activists, professionals, and scholars, Re-Creating the Circle brings a new perspective to the American Indian struggle for self-determination: the returning of Indigenous peoples to sovereignty, self-sufficiency, and harmony so that they may again live well in their own communities, while partnering with their neighbors, the nation, and the world for mutual advancement. Given the complexity in realizing American Indian renewal, this project weaves the perspectives of individual contributors into a holistic analysis providing a broader understanding of political, economic, educational, social, cultural, and psychological initiatives. The authors seek to assist not only in establishing American Indian nations as full partners in American federalism and society, but also in improving the conditions of Indigenous people world wide, while illuminating the relevance of American Indian tradition for the contemporary world facing an abundance of increasing difficulties. |
| cherokee nation small business: Report of the Department of the Interior ... [with Accompanying Documents] United States. Department of the Interior, 1905 |
| cherokee nation small business: Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior United States. Dept. of the Interior, 1905 |
| cherokee nation small business: Report of the Secretary of the Interior for the Fiscal Year ... United States. Dept. of the Interior, 1904 |
| cherokee nation small business: Annual Report of the Department of the Interior United States. Department of the Interior, 1906 |
| cherokee nation small business: Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior United States. Department of the Interior, 1904 |
| cherokee nation small business: Federal Register , 2013 |
| cherokee nation small business: Code of Federal Regulations , 1963 Special edition of the Federal Register, containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect ... with ancillaries. |
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