Native American Entrepreneurs

CHAPTER 1

Introduction

Everyone who is successful must have dreamed of something.

—Maricopa

Indigenous people of North America (often referred to as “Native Americans”) share a common past that includes colonization (Walters and Takamura 2015) and an ongoing, largely internalized, position of conflict with the U.S. federal government. While a merging of cultures may have produced a modern, economically powerful America, extensive complexities remain between indigenous people and the very recent visitors to this prosperous land, the U.S. federal government.

In recent years, the global community has seen major breakthroughs in the fields of management and entrepreneurship, as well as in technology. While countless research efforts have centered ...