| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 290 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Critical indigeneities
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Critical indigeneities.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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." |
| 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians -- Economic conditions.
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Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. |
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Economic conditions. |
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Cherokee business enterprises -- North Carolina -- Cherokee Indian Reservation.
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Cherokee business enterprises. |
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North Carolina -- Cherokee Indian Reservation. |
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Small business -- North Carolina -- Cherokee Indian Reservation.
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Small business. |
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Entrepreneurship -- North Carolina -- Cherokee Indian Reservation.
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Entrepreneurship. |
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Sovereignty -- Economic aspects.
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Sovereignty -- Economic aspects. |
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Sovereignty. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lewis, Courtney. Sovereign entrepreneurs. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019] 9781469648583 (DLC) 2018024858 (OCoLC)1040120720 |
| ISBN |
9781469648606 (electronic book) |
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1469648601 (electronic book) |
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9781469648613 (electronic book) |
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146964861X (electronic book) |
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9781469648583 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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146964858X (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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9781469648590 (paperback alkaline paper) |
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1469648598 (paperback alkaline paper) |
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