Creating Private Sector Economies in Native America

Robert J. Miller is a Professor at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University and the Faculty Director of the Rosette LLP American Indian Economic Development Program. He is a member of the Navajo Nation Council of Economic Advisors and the American Philosophical Society. He is also the Interim Chief Justice for the Pascua Yaqui Tribe Court of Appeals and a citizen of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe. He sits on the Grand Ronde Tribe and Northwest Inter-Tribal Courts of Appeals. He is the author of Reservation 'Capitalism': Economic Development in Indian Country (2012). Miriam Jorgensen is a Research Director of the Native Nations Institute at the University of Arizona. She is co-founder of the University of Arizona Indigenous Governance certificate program and editor of Rebuilding Native Nations: Strategies for Governance and Development (2007). Her work – in the US, Canada, and Australia – focuses on Indigenous governance and development and has addressed issues as wide-ranging as welfare policy, policing and justice systems, natural resources, cultural stewardship, land ownership, enterprise management, financial education, and entrepreneurship. Dan Stewart is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and Director of the Hogan Entrepreneurial Leadership Program at Gonzaga University. He is an enrolled member of the Spokane Tribe of Indians and the co-editor of American Indian Business: Principles and Practices (2017). In addition to his academic work, Dan is president of Dardan Enterprises, a diversified commercial construction firm.

• Introduction Miriam Jorgensen; Part I. The Setting: 1. Private sector economic development in Indian Country Robert J. Miller; 2. Opportunities to diversify: reservation workplaces and job numbers compared to nearby county areas Randall Akee, Elton Mykerezi and Richard M. Todd; Part II. Policy Barriers and Policy Needs: 3. The challenges of American Indian land tenure and the vastness of entrepreneurial potential Jessica A. Shoemaker; 4. Right-sizing use rights: Navajo land, bureaucracy, and home Ezra Rosser; 5. Access to credit in Indian Country: the promise of secured transaction systems in creating strong economies Patrice Kunesh and Benjamin Horowitz; 6. Retooling Indian Country for economic resurgence: reflections from a native CDFI practitioner David Castillo; Part III. Learning from Business Scholars: 7. Becoming an entrepreneur: essentials for any environment Mark C. Maletz; 8. Prototype, validate, pivot, repeat: a short, short course in entrepreneurship Daniel Stewart; 9. Mapping the sustainable development goals to Indian nations Carla F. Fredericks; 10. Supply chain management and Native American entrepreneurs Stephanie L. Black and Deanna M. Kennedy; Part IV. From Learning to Doing: Examples of Entrepreneurship in Indian Country: 11. Native American food sovereignty and youth entrepreneurship Raymond Foxworth, Krystal Langholz and A-dae Romero-Briones; 12. Indigenous arts ecology – a new investment model for Indian Country Lori Lea Pourier.