Sovereign entrepreneurs : Cherokee small-business owners and the making of economic sovereignty (2019)
Courtney Lewis (Author)
University of North Carolina Press
Physical Details: 290
Language: English
[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. (Publisher)
...MoreReview Christopher Arris Oakley (2022) Review of "Sovereign entrepreneurs : Cherokee small-business owners and the making of economic sovereignty". Business History Review (pp. 683-685).
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