TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lewis,Courtney
TI  - Sovereign entrepreneurs: Cherokee small-business owners and the making of economic sovereignty 
T2  - Critical indigeneities
SN  - 9781469648606
AV  - E99 .S684 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Cherokee business enterprises
KW  - North Carolina
KW  - Cherokee Indian Reservation
KW  - Small business
KW  - Entrepreneurship
KW  - Sovereignty
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; "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."; 2; b
N2  - "[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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