Published in Washburn Law Journal
By: Helaman S. Hancock
History has taught us that once something is identified as being valuable to Native Americans, the federal government tries to take it away. Congress and the executive branch have enacted laws, adopted policies, and declared war on America’s Native Peoples to accomplish such deprivations. The United [...]
10 Small Businesses vie for National Minority Small Business Person of the Year
WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The U.S. Small Business Administration will host a mentor-protégé small business matchmaking session Aug. 23 just prior to the 28th annual National Minority Enterprise Development (MED) Week conference, which runs Aug. 25-27, 2010 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C.
During the [...]
By: Ed Schoenfeld
JUNEAU, ALASKA (2010-08-11) Monday’s plane crash near Dillingham ended the life of one of Alaska Natives’ most effective advocates in Washington, D.C. The late Senator Ted Stevens funded hundreds of Native programs and village projects. And he played a key role in passage of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.
Bob Loescher remembers the [...]
WINNEBAGO, Neb. — Ho-Chunk Inc., CEO Lance Morgan is expected to receive a national award Thursday from the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Administration officials are scheduled to present the Region VII Minority Small Business Person of the Year award to Morgan at 10 a.m. Aug. 5 at HCI’s corporate offices in Winnebago.
SBA Region VII encompasses Nebraska, [...]
CORDOVA, Alaska, Aug. 3 /PRNewswire/ — The Eyak Corporation is proud to announce that The Eyak Foundation awarded a record number of scholarships in 2010 to its Alaska Native shareholders and their descendants. The Eyak Foundation awarded 23 scholarships in 2010 to applicants whose academic and career goals included undergraduate and graduate pursuits, art school, [...]
If you want to be involved in tribal economic development, it helps to be an optimist. I have always been the ultimate optimist and have helped build Ho-Chunk, Inc., a successful tribal corporation from scratch out here on the prairie of Nebraska. But lately what I have been witnessing as a tribal CEO, tribal lawyer [...]
It came as a big surprise when Ron Perry, president of the National 8(a) Association, asked Layli Pietri to attend and be a panel member during the organization’s conference in Anchorage on June 22-23.
Pietri, 36, left Alaska in 1995 with her husband and children in search of a different life. This would mark the first [...]
Federally recognized Indian tribes, Alaska Native corporations (ANCs) formed by the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) and Native Hawaiian organizations (NHO) are, and have been, eligible for federal contracting preferences under the U.S. Small Business Administration’s (SBA) 8(a) program. These groups are exempt by law from certain caps on SBA 8(a) contracts that apply [...]
Eager to get ahead of the sluggish economy, more Hawaii small businesses are seeking out certifications through programs with the U.S. Small Business Administration that allow them to better compete for lucrative government and military contracts.
The SBA’s 8(a) business-development program, reserved for minority and other disadvantaged small businesses, is generating “high levels of interest” in [...]
There was no limit to the amount of help or advice a Small Business Administration 8(a) company could get in downtown Anchorage on June 22-23 while the National 8(a) Association held its 2010 National conference at the Marriott Hotel.
“This is a good outreach, and there will be more help to come for rural Alaska business [...]
