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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Lewis, Courtney (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Sovereignty > Economic aspects.
Small business.
Entrepreneurship.
Economic history.
Cherokee business enterprises.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Native American Studies.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Souverainete > Aspect economique.
Entrepreneurship > North Carolina > Cherokee Indian Reservation.
Small business > North Carolina > Cherokee Indian Reservation.
Cherokee business enterprises > North Carolina > Cherokee Indian Reservation.
North Carolina > Cherokee Indian Reservation.
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians > Economic conditions.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:"[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"--
Description matérielle:1 online resource (312 pages): illustrations, maps.
ISBN:9781469648613

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