Description: Sovereign Entrepreneurs : Cherokee Small-Business Owners and the Making of Economic Sovereignty, Paperback by Lewis, Courtney, ISBN 1469648598, ISBN-13 9781469648590, Used Good Condition, Free shipping in the US By 2009, reverberations of economic crisis spread from the United States around the globe. As corporations across the United States folded, however, small businesses on the Qualla Boundary of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) continued to thrive. In this rich ethnographic study, Courtney Lewis reveals the critical roles small businesses such as these play for Indigenous nations. The EBCI has an especially long history of incorporated, citizen-owned businesses located on their lands. When many people think of Indigenous-owned businesses, they stop with prominent casino gaming operations or natural-resource intensive enterprises. But on the Qualla Boundary today, Indigenous entrepreneurship and economic independence extends to art galleries, restaurants, a bookstore, a funeral parlor, and more.
Lewiss fieldwork followed these businesses through the Great Recession and against the backdrop of a rapidly expanding EBCI-owned casino. Lewiss keen observations reveal how Eastern Band small business owners have contributed to an economic sovereignty that empowers and sustains their nation both culturally and politically.
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Book Title: Sovereign Entrepreneurs : Cherokee Small-Business Owners and the Making of Economic Sovereignty
Number of Pages: 312 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 2019
Topic: Entrepreneurship, History & Theory, Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, Small Business, Native American
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Political Science, Social Science, Business & Economics, History
Item Weight: 16.2 Oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Courtney Lewis
Book Series: Critical Indigeneities Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
