Indigenous Governance Database
Business & Economics (NKH)

Social and Economic Change on American Indian Reservations
By 2010, the vast majority of American Indian tribes could be considered gaming tribes. We estimate that more than 92% of all American Indians on reservations lived on reservations with gaming operations. Gaming operations have an impact on almost every American Indian reservation given the…

Doing Business in Indian Country
This paper sets forth some of the issues to be considered and addressed when entering into a commercial transaction with a federally recognized Indian tribe or tribal entity, a tribally-controlled business enterprise or an Indian-owned, reservation-based business enterprise. This paper deals only…

Doing Business on Arizona Indian Lands: Navajo Nation
Doing Business on Arizona Indian Lands is a business and economic development resource for both Indian and non-Indian persons. The primary goal of this guide is to help readers recognize the economic potential of Arizona Indian tribes and to ease business and economic development by providing a…

US Census AIAN 2010
This report provides a portrait of the American Indian and Alaska Native population in the United States and discusses that population’s distribution at the national level and at lower levels of geography. It is part of a series that analyzes population and housing data collected from the 2010…