TY - GEN T1 - Sovereign entrepreneurs : Cherokee small-business owners and the making of economic sovereignty T2 - Critical indigeneities. A1 - Lewis, Courtney LA - English PP - Chapel Hill PB - University of North Carolina Press YR - 2019 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1097183893 AB - "[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"-- OP - 290 CN - E99.C5 L397 2019eb SN - 9781469648606 SN - 1469648601 SN - 9781469648613 SN - 146964861X SN - 9781469648583 SN - 146964858X SN - 9781469648590 SN - 1469648598 KW - Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians : Economic conditions. KW - Cherokee business enterprises : North Carolina : Cherokee Indian Reservation. KW - Small business : North Carolina : Cherokee Indian Reservation. KW - Entrepreneurship : North Carolina : Cherokee Indian Reservation. KW - Sovereignty : Economic aspects. KW - Souveraineté : Aspect économique. KW - Entreprises cherokee : Caroline du Nord : Cherokee Indian Reservation. KW - Entrepreneuriat : Caroline du Nord : Cherokee Indian Reservation. KW - HISTORY : United States : State & Local : South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Ethnic Studies : Native American Studies. KW - Cherokee business enterprises KW - Economic history KW - Entrepreneurship KW - Small business KW - Sovereignty : Economic aspects KW - Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians KW - North Carolina : Cherokee Indian Reservation ER -