| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 290 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Critical Indigeneities |
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Critical indigeneities.
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| Contents |
"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." |
| Summary |
"[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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Cherokee business enterprises -- North Carolina -- Cherokee Indian Reservation
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Small business -- North Carolina -- Cherokee Indian Reservation
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Entrepreneurship -- North Carolina -- Cherokee Indian Reservation
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Sovereignty -- Economic aspects
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies.
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Cherokee business enterprises
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Economic history
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Entrepreneurship
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Small business
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Sovereignty -- Economic aspects
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| SUBJECT |
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians -- Economic conditions
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| Subject |
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
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North Carolina -- Cherokee Indian Reservation
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781469648606 |
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1469648601 |
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9781469648613 |
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146964861X |
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