Sovereign entrepreneurs : Cherokee small-business owners and the making of economic sovereignty /
Lewis, Courtney,
Sovereign entrepreneurs : Cherokee small-business owners and the making of economic sovereignty / Courtney Lewis. - xiii, 290 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. - Critical indigeneities. . - Critical indigeneities. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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."
"[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"--
9781469648583 146964858X 9781469648590 1469648598
2018024858
Cherokee business enterprises--North Carolina--Cherokee Indian Reservation.
Small business--North Carolina--Cherokee Indian Reservation.
Entrepreneurship--North Carolina--Cherokee Indian Reservation.
Sovereignty--Economic aspects.
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians--Economic conditions.
E99 .C5 / L397 2019
Sovereign entrepreneurs : Cherokee small-business owners and the making of economic sovereignty / Courtney Lewis. - xiii, 290 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. - Critical indigeneities. . - Critical indigeneities. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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."
"[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"--
9781469648583 146964858X 9781469648590 1469648598
2018024858
Cherokee business enterprises--North Carolina--Cherokee Indian Reservation.
Small business--North Carolina--Cherokee Indian Reservation.
Entrepreneurship--North Carolina--Cherokee Indian Reservation.
Sovereignty--Economic aspects.
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians--Economic conditions.
E99 .C5 / L397 2019