PBS "We Shall Remain": Micro-Loans

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American Experience (in association with NAPT)
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Kristi Coker, executive director of the Citizen Potawatomi Community Development Corporation, discusses how the CPCDC, one of more than 30 Native Community Development Financial Institutions in the U.S. hopes to build Native economies through small loans to Native entrepreneurs...

Native Nations
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American Experience (in association with NAPT). "Micro-Loans." PBS "We Shall Remain" documentary series. January 8, 2009. Television, Radio and Film. (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/weshallremain/native_now/enterprise_micro, accessed August 16, 2012)

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