Sovereign entrepreneurs : Cherokee small-business owners and the making of economic sovereignty /
"[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 en...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press
[2019]
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| Col·lecció: | Critical indigeneities.
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| Accés en línia: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469648613_lewis |
| Sumari: | "[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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| Descripció física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 290 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781469648606 1469648601 9781469648613 146964861X 9781469648583 146964858X 9781469648590 1469648598 |