Sovereign entrepreneurs : Cherokee small-business owners and the making of economic sovereignty /

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"[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 en...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lewis, Courtney (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Colección:Critical indigeneities.
Temas:
Cherokee business enterprises > North Carolina > Cherokee Indian Reservation.
Small business > North Carolina > Cherokee Indian Reservation.
Entrepreneurship > North Carolina > Cherokee Indian Reservation.
Sovereignty > Economic aspects.
Souveraineté > Aspect économique.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Native American Studies.
Cherokee business enterprises.
Economic history.
Entrepreneurship.
Small business.
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians > Economic conditions.
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.
North Carolina > Cherokee Indian Reservation.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"[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"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiii, 290 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781469648606
1469648601
9781469648613
146964861X

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