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So for example, you know, a lot of the southeast tribes, majority of the southeast tribes were removed during the removal act in the s. When those communities were moved from their existing homelands, oftentimes, they were put in a reservation community in an environment that they did not understand or even know. And it could be hundreds and hundreds of miles away from from their traditional homelands. So the traditional hunting and the traditional farming and all the things that that community had done for thousands and thousands of years, all of a sudden, that community is in a totally different environment, with totally different land and totally different types of hunting and environments.
So that I think started it. A second piece of that is the reservation system were often in very rural areas. So the ruralness, the isolation was also a factor to to high poverty in in those areas. And then lastly, a lot of those communities were totally reliant on federal government.
Now, a lot of that is changing. And it has been changing for the past 20 to 30 years. Part of that is, is some of our communities, not only develop gaming enterprises, but they developed other types of business enterprises that actually support economic development and support their community. And organizations like myself, we really focus on that individual entrepreneur, helping them develop businesses and create jobs in the community and, and really foster an environment of success.
And we also help the tribes do the same. What type of businesses can a tribe create, to, to help support the community and help bring in not only revenue for the community, but also jobs. Tell us a little bit about the Center. What is it and how did you become involved? CJ: The National Center is a nonprofit organization that focuses on business enterprise development in Native American communities. And really, it has supported billions of dollars worth of contracts to Native American businesses, including tribally owned businesses, through various types of procurement.
My involvement of the National Center was that I left the federal government in And and I left Washington DC, with the desire to get back to my roots.
And my roots were what is economic development in Native American communities. So I felt like I could help continue the growth of the National Center. I laid out a five-year strategic plan to really focus on those core core tasks of developing businesses. We also work with Fortune companies, to help with their supply chains, and to bring in more Native American businesses in their supply chain, or into their workforce. CJ: You know, Rachel, I think some of the unique challenges of running a business on a reservation is one, oftentimes, because of the overall remoteness of our reservation communities.
So a lot of times, just overall distance is a hindrance, you may have to drive two to three hours to get to a more urban market. Last week, I was in rural Alaska. And the overall infrastructure and a community like that, how do you do commerce? How do you even get goods?
You know, the closest bank is miles away. So how do you? How do you do commerce? And, and I think that, that leads to some unique, unique challenges, but also a wait, you know, out of the box, thinking of how to build and grow businesses in rural American and reservation and rural communities. So, you know, the unique the unique challenges are infrastructure, the banking system, sometimes lack of technology or internet, and then even sometimes lack of a workforce, or even customers.
RT: So Chris, you know, the story about you going to Alaska and being close to the Arctic Circle really brings home to me the understanding that there is a wide variety of tribal nations that you have to work with on a regular basis.
You know, there are federally recognized sovereign tribal nations across the United States. We have clients from Alaska all the way to Florida, all the way to New York. So possibly working with a community in Alaska is is very different than working with a community in Oklahoma.
And and those businesses are often different as well. Every time we develop a program, we run training programs, every month, we do webinars every other week, we customize that program for that particular community or that particular state, even oftentimes.
JN: So you touched on, you know, some of the various challenges, you know, that affects what may or may not be successful. Can you maybe point to some of the success stories, like what types of businesses are successful, or sustainable in terms of revenue?
So there, there are hundreds of different types of businesses on reservation communities, and a lot of those businesses are really doing well. Of course, COVID, has taken a huge impact in our communities all over the United States, but specifically in Native American communities, but our businesses are resilient.
And, and they, you know, they are looking to grow and change and, and, you know, build economies in their community. JN: That actually touches on a question that I wanted to bring up, you know, you mentioned COVID, and how it dramatically affected businesses on reservations, you know, businesses in the United States and globally, have also been affected drastically by the pandemic.
So the businesses that you support, how did they fare overall throughout the pandemic? Nationwide, our casinos, a lot of our casinos closed their doors, oftentimes, in in many of those areas, that was the only employer. You know, the casino was one of the only employer not only for the reservation community, but also the trickle effect surrounding communities.
You know, and just, you know, just a lot of loss because of that one particular business. For our small businesses, the National Center partnered with the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis to do a business survey, and this was about a year ago. So you can see that that that impact. You know, we all of us see the impact throughout the United States, I mean, everything that we do every day.
But then if you add the, you know, rural community, if you add high poverty in, in these areas, that impact is, is even higher. And, and some of those businesses are really small, small businesses.
In fact, we found, like one in six businesses have said that they are just not even able to get back open. And that is something that the National Center has really been working hard on how can we help our businesses diversify?
And how can we help them get back in operation, and what other support is out there to keep those businesses going?
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