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Formation National Native Business Alliances by Regions

Formation  National Native Business Alliances by Regions

By

Terrance H. Booth, Sr.   Tsimshian Tribe

If anyone visits our Native schools we will notice that third graders are busy typing away at the school computers and readily latch on to the electronic information age.  Our youth cellphones have more power than our personal computers or laptops.  One who has access to this electronic world can have instant communications anywhere around the globe.  The exposure to this rapid information age rapidly changes the economics of globe and makes the business world borderless and having to ability to make business dealings via the Internet.

First Nations Tribes 100 tribal delegates embarked upon Beijing, China November 2008 seeking investors, joint ventures, partnerships for their tribal natural resources and tribal projects.  Some international partnerships did happen with the First Nations of Canada.  Some of the First Nations came away with 100s of millions of dollars for their tribal projects.  An example of possibilities of seeking finances elsewhere; rather than have full dependency upon our federal government programs. 

In this era of globalization and the world economies there are more financial resources, technical assistance, consultants with Native perspective in the approach to implementing tribal businesses, regional Native American Organization, Associations, Native Advocacy Organization have aligned and partnered with Tribal Colleges, Colleges and Universities with culturally appropriate and realistic training workshops on developing tribal economies, Native Business Alliances, and several Native non-profits providing in-depth training on what tribes should be doing to properly develop their tribal economies. There are federal and state programs that tribes have been tapping into to start on the road to prosperity.  Several Corporations have partnered with some of the Tribes like the Mississippi Choctaw partnered with Ford Motors making car electronic parts for Ford. 

We have within ourselves human resources, our own tribal expertise, professionals in about any field of the business environment; we have a land base and some tribes have created commercial or industrial parks; especially tribes that are near large urban centers.  Some tribes have created tribal business authorities and have separated tribal businesses away from tribal politics.  Several researchers have shown that separating tribal business away from tribal politics have gained many successes.  Each tribe across Indian Country, USA have Solar, Wind, Water and Biomass and with the availability of finances set aside for tribes and appropriate by Congress through the Department of Energy have done several tribal feasibility studies to see what type of alternative energy best suits their reservation settings.  Next steps should be the creation of Tribal Alternative Energy Parks to sell need energy to our neighbors.  All of America will need 70% more electricity and tribes with Tribal Alternative Energy Parks can be selling energy to our neighbors.  With Tribal Alternative Energy Parks for tribes not having their own tribal utilities this possibility provides for the tribes their own energy needs and more importantly; stop a huge "economic leakage" meaning instead of spending money that goes off tribal lands, with the tribe having their own tribal utility company they keep the dollars within their tribal setting and thus, greatly improve their tribal economy.  Dollars that are spent within the reservation creates wealth for the tribes changing their tribal economic flow and keeping dollars on their reservations.  An economic study of any tribe will show goods and services the dollars are spent off reservation; thus, a poor tribal economy.

Alaska Native and Native American businesses are on the rise and some have located themselves within their own tribal settings and focused on capturing the dollars that were spent off reservations.  In the economic picture of our own buying power of our Native people   Catalyst Women's Business Organization research on Buying Power, writes, "Native Americans' buying power has increased from $19.7 billion in 1990 to $64.7 billion in 2009 and is projected to climb to $82.7 billion in 2014. The percentage change in Native Americans' buying power between 1990 and 2014 is 319.3%, higher than the percentage change for whites. Native Americans' share of the consumer market was 0.6% in 2009." (http://www.catalyst.org/publication/256/buying-power) So we have the ability to bring about economic change from within ourselves as tribal people and by working together organizing by different regions we can change the life of our people in less than one generation if we all focus upon national tribal goals to eliminate poverty from our midst.

This writer proposes formation of National Alaska Native and Native American Business Alliance with regional alliances in:

Alaska, Eastern, Eastern Oklahoma, Great Plains .Midwest, Navajo, Northwest, Pacific, Rocky Mountain, Southern Plains, Southwest and Western with Tribal Regional Business Alliances in each one of these areas.  What is purpose of a Tribal Regional Alliance?

Mission (What We Do)

National Alaska Native and Native American Business Alliance: mission tribal economic transformation, strengthen and connect tribal networks of locally owned Alaska Native and Native American   businesses ,  national Native business incubator for starting new tribal businesses, collectively work together setting aside financial resources to develop own tribal products, services and goods, identify were a product can be value-added, inventory of tribes' goods or products or produce to see where one tribe or tribes can work with another tribe or tribes for value-adding, promoting and marketing Native Brand names, take full advantage of cultural diversity programs of companies and corporations,   dedicated to building a  Stable and Wealth Producing Tribal Economies.

Let us together make it happen and step into prosperity and take action steps to develop substantial tribal wealth development building a new tribal economy for our People and our Children.

About the Author

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