Native American Heritage Month
November is Native American Heritage Month, a time to celebrate rich and diverse cultures, traditions, and histories and to acknowledge the important contributions of Native people. Heritage Month is also an opportune time to educate the general public about tribes, to raise a general awareness about the unique challenges Native people have faced both historically and in the present, and the ways in which tribal citizens have worked to conquer these challenges.
Source: National Congress of American Indians
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Featured Reading for Native American Heritage Month
Creating Private Sector Economies in Native America by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2019In this work, a roster of expert authors address the underdevelopment of the private sector on American Indian reservations, with the goal of sustaining and growing Native nation communities, so that Indian Country can thrive on its own terms.
Indigenomics: Taking a Seat at the Table by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2021Indigenomics lays out the tenets of the emerging Indigenous economy, built around relationships, multigenerational stewardship of resources, and care for all. his is vital reading for business leaders and entrepreneurs, Indigenous organizations and nations, governments and policymakers, and economists.
Network Sovereignty: Building the Internet Across Indian Country by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2017Marisa Duarte examines information and communication technologies (ICT) across Indian Country to explore the significance of the flow of information to Native sovereignty, self-governance, and decolonization.
Books for Native American Heritage Month
American Indian Business: Principles and Practices by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2017An investigation into the unique successes and challenges of American Indian business. Many Indigenous entrepreneurs face unique cultural and practical challenges, from a perceived suspicion of capitalism to the difficulty of borrowing start-up funds.
American Indians and the Market Economy, 1775-1850 by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2011Provides a clear view of the realities of the economic and social interactions between Native groups and the expanding Euro-American population during the last quarter of the 18th century.
Native American Entrepreneurs by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2020This book captures the entrepreneurial stories and mindsets of contemporary Native Americans. Faced with numerous challenges, many Native American entrepreneurs have learned to transcend tough obstacles, leverage resources, and strategically pursue opportunities to achieve business success.
Native Pathways: American Indian Culture and Economic Development in the Twentieth Century by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2004Highlights how indigenous peoples have simultaneously adopted capitalist strategies and altered them to suit their own distinct cultural beliefs and practices. Native Pathways offers fresh viewpoints on economic change and cultural identity in Native communities.
Renewing Indigenous Economies by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2022Charts a course for reversing the decline in Indigenous economies and establishing a path to prosperity based on secure tribal property rights, clear jurisdiction and governance, and fiscal and financial power to restore the dignity Native Americans deserve.
Reservation Capitalism: Economic Development in Indian Country by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2012Focuses on strategies for establishing private and public economic activities on reservations, creating economies where reservation inhabitants can be employed, live, and buy the necessities of life, enabling complete tribal self-sufficiency and self-determination.
Sovereign Entrepreneurs: Cherokee Small Business Owners and the Making of Economic Sovereignty by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2020As the world faced to the Great Recession, small businesses on the Qualla Boundary of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians continued to thrive. This study reveals the critical roles small businesses such as these play for Indigenous nations, culturally and politically.
Tiller's Guide to Indian Country: Economic Profiles of American Indian Reservations by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2015Since 1996, Tiller's Guide to Indian Country has been recognized as the ultimate resource on contemporary economies across 568 Indian tribes and Alaska Native communities.
Gambling on Authenticity: Gaming, the Noble Savage, and the Not-So-New Indian by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2017This collection offers a nuanced analysis of Indigenous gaming in the U.S. and Canada that collectively creates an interdisciplinary reading of gaming informed by both the social sciences and the humanities.
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