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Sovereign entrepreneurs Cherokee small-business owners and the making of economic sovereignty / Courtney Lewis.
| Author/creator | Lewis, Courtney |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019] |
| Description | xiii, 290 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from JSTOR University of North Carolina Press Publisher Collection (Backlist) |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford UNC Press Titles |
| Subjects |
| Series | Critical indigeneities Critical indigeneities. ^A1325681 |
| 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." |
| Abstract | "[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 note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-272) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2018024858 |
| ISBN | 9781469648583 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781469648590 (pbk : alk. paper) |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |