Native American Business

Are you constantly tracking down your executives and managers to get approval for your marketing projects? Do you spend more time getting the “yes” than it took you to put your programs together? Effective, efficient and productive marketing requires group consensus. Even the most experienced, organized marketing executive needs participation and input from the executive team, all marketing staff, other department managers, frontline employees and yes, even customers. Not only is involvement and buy-in necessary and critical, but before any program can be implemented, a series of approvals must be obtained. Successfully circumnavigating the maze that is the approval process is often a marketing professional’s personal albatross.

MASHANTUCKET, Conn. – Dennis Hubbard won $509,827 when he hit a Temple of Treasure MegaJackpot at Foxwoods Resort Casino Feb. 21.

NEW TOWN, N.D. – An oil boom on American Indian land has brought jobs, millions of dollars and hope to long-impoverished tribal members who have struggled for more than a century on the million-acre (405,000-hectare) Fort Berthold Indian Reservation.

GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) – A plan by a southern Arizona Indian tribe to build a casino and resort in the Phoenix area has divided tribes, split cities and is now sparking a debate at the Legislature about tribal sovereignty.

WASHINGTON – For the first time in more than two years, the National Indian Gaming Commission is about to be fully staffed.

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Whether you are at the giving or receiving end of a “pink slip” it is never easy. Losing your job or having to let someone go can create a host of emotions and complications for you and your workplace.

PORTLAND, Ore. – Aja K. DeCoteau, a member of the Yakama Nation, joined the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission March 8 as the new manager of the watershed department. DeCoteau, 29, has been serving as the program manager for the Yakama Nation’s Environmental Management Program in Toppenish, Wash. for the past two years.

Can a once prosperous pueblo tribe of western Texas rebuild after its primary source of income was closed in 2002? That’s exactly what is happening with the Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo, also known as the Tigua Indians, after the state shut down its casino in 2002.

INDIO, Calif. – I scream, you scream, just about everyone screams for premium ice cream. “Lique” (pronounced “Lick”) is the newest addition to the lineup of six eateries inside Fantasy Springs Resort Casino. It features a menu filled with 16 ice cream flavors – many that rotate depending on the season, specialty sundaes, milkshakes, burgers and hot dogs, and low-fat frozen yogurt on the lighter side.

BETHESDA, Md. – Salt River Devco, an enterprise of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, has signed a hotel management agreement with Marriott International to manage the first Marriott-branded hotel on U.S. tribal land. The Courtyard by Marriott will be located on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community just outside of Scottsdale, Ariz. at the intersection of Jackrabbit and Pima roads with access off the Loop 101 Freeway at McDonald. The hotel will open in 2012.

LAS VEGAS – The Small Business Administration wants to work better with Indian businesses, says the agency’s top official, while balancing its accountability to American taxpayers.

It’s either feast or famine for American Indian housing.

TULSA, Okla. – The Flintco Companies, Inc., the largest Native American-owned company and one of the largest commercial contractors in the nation, won the 2009 National Associated Builders and Contractors Pyramid Award for Excellence in Construction for its construction of the Oklahoma Heart Institute at Hillcrest Medical Center in Tulsa.

SAN DIEGO – Viejas Outlet Center recently announced the opening of Chico’s – one of the nation’s leading upscale women’s clothing and accessory retailers.

LAS VEGAS – Department of Commerce Secretary Gary Locke says the Obama administration supports a new round of jobs-based recovery funds for Indian country.

I am a 40-something Generation X entrepreneur. I am one of the 44 million to 50 million Americans born between 1961 and 1981. Gen Xers are independent, resourceful, technologically adept and we value a balance between work and life.

KLAMATH, Calif. – The historic ReQua Inn, located on the Yurok Reservation in northern California and an icon of the Klamath River for almost a century, is under new ownership. Yurok tribal members (and mother and daughter duo) Geneva Wiki and Janet Wortman took over the inn this month and are excited to continue a tradition of hosting that pre-dates even the inn’s opening in 1915.

MASHANTUCKET, Conn. – Who better to choose as the official spokesperson for a world famous-branded poker room than someone who has been wildly successful at the game?

NEWTON, Mass. – Total gaming revenues in North America were $105.13 billion in 2008 with Canada earning $13.55 billion and the United States earning $91.58 billion; while commercial gaming on the continent declined by 0.92 percent to $91.58 billion in 2008, Indian gaming across North America grew slightly at 1.6 percent to $26.9 billion.

KYKOTSMOVI, Ariz. – The Navajo Tribal Utility Authority has been given permission to survey trust lands within the Upper Village of Moenkopi for a lateral natural gas line to serve the new Moenkopi Legacy Inn & Suites.