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Sovereign entrepreneurs : Cherokee small-business owners and the making of economic sovereignty / Courtney Lewis.
Penn Museum Library E99.C5 L397 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lewis, Courtney, author.
- Series:
- Critical indigeneities
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sovereignty--Economic aspects.
- Sovereignty.
- Entrepreneurship.
- Small business.
- Cherokee business enterprises.
- Economic conditions.
- Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians--Economic conditions.
- Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.
- Cherokee business enterprises--North Carolina--Cherokee Indian Reservation.
- Small business--North Carolina--Cherokee Indian Reservation.
- Entrepreneurship--North Carolina--Cherokee Indian Reservation.
- Economic history.
- North Carolina--Cherokee Indian Reservation.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 290 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "[A] study of small businesses and small business owners who are members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI). The EBCI has an especially long history of incorporated, citizen-owned businesses located on their reservation. Many people stop with casinos or natural-resource intensive enterprise when they think of Indigenous-owned businesses, but on 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 before and after the Great Recession, and against the backdrop of a rapidly expanding Cherokee-owned casino. From this source base, Lewis reveals how these EBCI businesses have contributed to an economic sovereignty that empowers and sustains their nation both culturally and politically. This is a generative concept that helps to define what a distinctly Indigenous form of entrepreneurship looks like"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- "Economic identities : conceptions and practices
- Tourism : "Where are the Indians?"
- Bounding American Indian businesses
- Pillars of sovereignty : the case for small businesses in economic development
- Governmental support for Indianpreneurs : challenges and conflicts."
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781469648583
- 146964858X
- 9781469648590
- 1469648598
- OCLC:
- 1040120720
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