Sovereign entrepreneurs : Cherokee small-business owners and the making of economic sovereignty /

Sovereign entrepreneurs : Cherokee small-business owners and the making of economic sovereignty /

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Author / Creator:	Lewis, Courtney, author.
Imprint:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Description:	xiii, 290 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Critical indigeneities Critical indigeneities.
Subject:	Cherokee business enterprises -- North Carolina -- Cherokee Indian Reservation. Small business -- North Carolina -- Cherokee Indian Reservation. Entrepreneurship -- North Carolina -- Cherokee Indian Reservation. Sovereignty -- Economic aspects. Cherokee business enterprises. Economic history. Entrepreneurship. Small business. Sovereignty -- Economic aspects. Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians -- Economic conditions. Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. North Carolina -- Cherokee Indian Reservation.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11864592

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ISBN:	9781469648583 146964858X 9781469648590 1469648598 9781469648606
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"--

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