Chapter 10 Social Entrepreneurship among Native Peoples of the Americas: A Model or an Exception?
One of the great advantages of social entrepreneurship is its flexibility and ability to be used to beneficial effect in a wide variety of communities. It has been used as a tool to address various economic and social problems among the Native peoples of the Americas. This chapter explores two specific incidences of this use, one an individual effort by a single reservation community in the continental United States undertaken recently and the other a statewide government policy for addressing the needs of Native peoples in Alaska, which has been in operation since 1971. Although these ventures have provided benefits to the communities in question, ...
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