Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska

How Tribal Leaders Are Creating Jobs

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Indian Country Today
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The New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) has provided a vital spark to infrastructure and economic development projects across Indian country. Momentum has been building over the past several years but because of recent federal agency actions, and now tax-related Congressional bickering, it is in danger of petering out.

Out on the prairie, the skyline of Winnebago, Nebraska continues to grow. That is because the Winnebago Tribe is constructing a new multi-million-dollar educational center. This is a major achievement for a community in great need. Any other rural community might have issued bonds based on local property tax revenues to construct a critical community asset like this. But of course tribal governments cannot levy real property taxes. As such, NMTC-backed financing helped make this project a reality...

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Morgan, Lance and Gabriel S. Galanda. "How Tribal Leaders Are Creating Jobs." Indian Country Today. October 15, 2013. Opinion. (https://ictnews.org/archive/how-tribal-leaders-are-creating-jobs, accessed July 18, 2023)

Key to Indian Development: Self-Government

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The Daily Yonder
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Beginning late in the last century, the economies of Indian nations in the United States began recording a remarkable turnaround.

Since the early 1990s, per capita income on Native American reservations has grown three times faster than have incomes in the nation as a whole.

American Indians are still poor – the poorest of any ethnic group in the nation, with 39% of the population living in poverty in 2000 and incomes less than half the U.S. average.

But the gains made among the 1.2 million people living in Indian Country have been dramatic. Something has been working in many Indian nations, according to two professors (Stephen Cornell and Joseph P. Kalt) who have studied tribal development...

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Bishop, Bill. "Key to Indian Development: Self-Government." Daily Yonder. December 01, 2010. Article. (http://www.dailyyonder.com/key-indian-development-self-government/2010/1..., accessed August 1, 2023)

Ho-Chunk Plans to rename Terra Centre

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Ho-Chunk Inc. has acquired a majority stake in the Terra Centre and plans to rename it for the Winnebago Tribe's economic development division.

"We just bought the largest building in Sioux City," Ho-Chunk CEO Lance Morgan told an audience in Lincoln, Neb., on Wednesday. "Basically, that's going to be called the Ho-Chunk Centre."

"We're not even moving in," Morgan said. "We're just putting our name on the top of it because we think it's gonna be cool." Ho-Chunk is purchasing the iconic glass-clad office building at 600 Fourth St. in partnership with the Sioux Falls-based real estate and development firm Dunham Co. and other investors...

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Dreeszen, Dave. "Ho-Chunk Plans to rename Terra Centre." Sioux City Journal. September 21, 2012. (http://siouxcityjournal.com/business/local/exclusive-ho-chunk-plans-to-r..., accessed September 21, 2012)

Ho-Chunk, Inc. has grown into global enterprise

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The Winnebago Tribe's reservation in Northeast Nebraska is home to about 2,800 enrolled members. The tribe, a federally recognized, sovereign nation, is governed by a council of nine-elected tribal members. The tribe owns a number of enterprises, including gaming operations in Iowa and Nebraska, and Ho-Chunk Inc., an economic development corporation launched in 1994 to create jobs for tribal members and help the tribe become economically self sufficient. Governed by a separate board of directors and executive management team, led by CEO Lance Morgan, Ho-Chunk Inc. has grown into a global enterprise with $230 million in annual revenue...

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Dreeszen, Dave. "Ho-Chunk, Inc. has grown into global enterprise." Sioux City Journal, May 31, 2012. (http://siouxcityjournal.com/news/local/a1/ho-chunk-inc-has-grown-into-gl..., accessed June 1, 2012)

Indian Pride: Episode 108: Economic Development

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Prairie Public
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This episode of the "Indian Pride" television series, aired in 2007, explores the economic development efforts of selected Native nations cross Indian Country. It also features an interview with Lance Morgan, CEO of the Winnebago Trib'es Ho-Chunk, Inc., who provides an overview of the evolution of Ho-Chunk, Inc. and how it is working to grow and diversify the Winnebago Tribe's economy in order to make it sustainable.

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Prairie Public. "Indian Pride (Episode 108): Economic Development." Indian Pride television series. Prairie Public. Fargo, North Dakota. 2007. Video. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFibj75MUi0, accessed July 24, 2023)

Indian Pride: Episode 108: Economic Development

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Prairie Public Broadcasting
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Indian Pride, an American Indian cultural magazine television series, spotlights the diverse cultures of American Indian people throughout the country. This episode of Indian Pride features Lance Morgan, President and CEO of Ho-Chunk, Inc., the economic development corporation of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, and focuses on the topic of economic development in Indian Country. (Segment Placement: 1:06-15:08)

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"Economic Development." Indian Pride (Episode 108). Prairie Public Broadcasting. Fargo, North Dakota. 2007. Television program. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFibj75MUi0, accessed September 26, 2012).

Ho-Chunk Village

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Through the creation of new job opportunities at Ho-Chunk, Inc., there came the need for additional housing on the Winnebago Reservation. The Ho-Chunk Village concept was developed to fulfill that void. Upon its completion, the Ho-Chunk Village's residential area will include over 110 housing units featuring single home ownership, multi-family rental and live-work units. The Ho-Chunk Village Plan site features a description of how the village was developed, the master plan, an interactive map, and a Ho-Chunk Village video tour...

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Ho-Chunk, Inc. "Ho-Chunk Village." Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska. Winnebago, Nebraska. 2013. Website. (http://www.hochunkinc.com/village-tour.php, accessed September 11, 2013)