Sovereign Entrepreneurs: Cherokee Small-Business Owners and the Making of Economic Sovereignty

by Courtney Lewis

Book Overview

By 2009, reverberations of economic crisis spread from the United States around the globe. As corporations across the United States folded, however, small businesses on the Qualla Boundary of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) continued to thrive. In this rich ethnographic study, Courtney Lewis reveals the critical roles small businesses such as these play for Indigenous nations. The EBCI has an especially long history of incorporated, citizen-owned...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469648598
• ISBN13: 9781469648590
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"