Alaska Native, First Nations, & Native American Can Make Their Economies Work
Alaska Native, First Nations, & Native American Can Make Their Economies Work
By
Terrance H. Booth, Sr. Tsimshian Tribe
From the first president of America to the current president American Indians have confronted this nation's leadership from President Washington to President Obama. From the very start of this nation called America Indian policies took it start from President George Washington. One would think that after 227 years of confronting American presidents and the elected officials of Washington, DC that in this day and age that the social and economic problems of Alaska Native and American Indian would be fully resolved. Starting from.. "October 15, 1783 a select committee headed by James Duane, to whom papers relating to Indian Affair have been committed, made a report to the Continental Congress on October 15, 1783, which outlined procedure for dealing with Indians in the North and West." (From Documents of United States Indian Policy, Edited by Francis Paul Prucha, page 3, Proclamation of the Continental Congress, September 22, 1783) This writer only wants to show how long Alaska Native and Native American Tribes have been confronting this Nation's leaders and elected officials specifically to address their social and economic conditions.
On the bright side current day Indian Affairs has tribal consultation with all of the federal agencies that oversee Indian Affairs. However, as the general public sees most tribes have tribal casinos that earn revenues for their tribal people. Out of the 554 Tribes only 115 Tribes have tribal casinos. The public at-large only see the bleak side of America's Indigenous, the high rate of unemployment, out of parity to that of the rest of America in about any professional field. There are a great number of successes with in Indian Country, USA. The US Census reports that there are 237, 000 plus Native Companies earnings are at $34.5 Billion dollars. These companies are other than gaming businesses.
Any researcher on tribal economies looking at tribal reservations would identify "economic leakages." Meaning tribal dollars that are spent off-reservation settings is an "economic leakage." Most tribal people go off their reservation settings for household goods, for clothing, for groceries, fuel for their vehicles, for movies, and tribes usually pay lot of the tribal dollar budgets for goods and services. This means there are many "economic leakages" on tribal lands dollars going off the reservation settings instead of remaining within the tribal communities. Perhaps the largest "economic leakage" for tribes that do not have their own tribal utility companies is dollars again going off-reservation settings. Some of the American Indian Companies have realized that their particular reservation setting has many "economic leakages" have established successful businesses and have located their company on tribal lands; thereby, capturing the dollars that would have gone off-reservation.
The tribal businesses need to know their own tribal people and their buying power. "Native Americans' buying power will increase from $19.7 million in 1990 to $84.6 million in 2013, an increase of 329.0%, which is significantly higher than the 209.1% growth rate for Whites. Native Americans' share of the consumer market will be 0.6% in 2013." (Jeffrey M. Humphreys, "The multicultural economy 2007: America's minority buying power," Selig Center for Economic Growth, University of Georgia (2008)). Once tribes can realize that their own strengths lies within themselves and new Native companies begin to tap into the buying power of their own people successes begin to fall into place. Working together is starting to become a reality among some of the tribes marking success stories happen for all of Indian Country, USA. We read where California tribes built a hotel in Sacramento, California. Just imagine if all the gaming tribes collectively got together as tribes to specifically address eliminating poverty from all of Indian Country, USA. That is beginning to happen by several tribes who joined forces with great success.
There are natural Tribal Alliances just waiting to happen. For example all the fisheries tribes of the Alaska, British Columbia and Pacific Northwest tribes there can form a fisheries alliance to cooperatively work together to create volumes of seafood for the globe. Why do tribes fish for other seafood companies or seafood brokers who receive more financial benefits by value-adding the salmon products and turn around with higher profits? Through a cooperative Native Fisheries Alliance the fisheries tribes can have full control over their tribal fisheries industry by creation of their own marketing strategies, their own Native Brand, their own state of the art seafood processing plants for multitude of value-adding all seafood products and having the ability for year around fisheries, modern fishing fleet for higher harvesting yield and have the ability for year around fisheries; value add with portion sizing, gift packaging with Native Designs for all seafood products, ability to seek all available seafood licenses to develop year around fisheries and year around jobs for the Native villages into fisheries.
Plus, the national grocery store chains have diversity programs where minority companies with their food products can be a supplier of all our seafood products to several grocery store chains. With specialty foods, special gift boxes can go to the specialty food stores for high end consumers. From among ourselves are several Native restaurants attached to Tribal Casinos that would readily buy Native Seafood Products. Several tribes are doing all these activities if all the fisheries tribes can form an International Native Fisheries Cooperative designed specifically to empower our fisheries tribes to confront and engage in a global economy. This will present tribal economic opportunities and enhance opportunities to gain substantial tribal wealth development. It will give to the tribes the full ability to take greater control over the fisheries industry of all the areas where fisheries tribes reside; fair and just prices for fishermen, seafood harvesters, seafood processors workers, and tribes get to have their own labeling, establish a network of marketing to one another, the globe and enrich one another by working together. The Fisheries Cooperative will do marketing, sales, establish a global outreach, and utilize all available resources and financing to establish tribal self-determination to its fullest course of endeavor that will be beneficial for all fisheries tribes.
The very same opportunity can happen with agriculture tribes for several Native Farming operation sell to national and international markets. They can form an International Native Agriculture Cooperative among themselves to collectively work together, establish Native Name Brands, more Native Designed packaging, sharing of resources, one tribe has farm products and another tribe may have the ability to value add the farm products. It is said or documented that 3/5 of the food products comes from American Indians or the Indigenous of Mexico. So we have several tribes individually being successful at what they do. It is time to make a greater impact upon the global economy and fully establish ourselves to become one of the global tribes as dubbed by Joel Kotkin in his book called "Tribes." But he talks about How Race, Religion and Identity Determine Success in the New Global Economy. Let's move forward to take full command of our own environments, our own tribal settings, our own tribal values and be ourselves as Native People by awaking to the new realities of a global economy. In the 227 years confronting this Nation's leaders who are still attempting to resolve our social and economic problems it can happen from ourselves. It is time to give successful reports to the Indian Affairs Committee and we can eliminate poverty ourselves.
Alaska Native, First Nations, & Native American Can Make Their Economies Work
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