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Choctaw Brothers Want to Make Tribes Self-Sufficient With Aquaponic Farming

Kaben Smallwood has a dream: One day, every Native American tribe will grow its own food and conserve natural resources in the process, too. The Choctaw native is well on his way to achieving that ambitious goal through Symbiotic, LLC, a company he founded in 2012 with his brother, Shelby, and a friend that builds nontraditional farming systems designed to recirculate water to raise fish and grow produce.

A Blackfeet Woman Builds TPMOCS From Heart and Sole

As a hard-working IP lawyer for Google, Maria Running Fisher Jones is creating some big legal shoes to fill someday. But it’s the little shoes that really fuel the Blackfeet Native’s passion. Running Fisher Jones invested $25,000 of her own money to launch TPMOCS ― an all-Native business that creates handmade moccasins for infants and toddlers ― for the sole purpose of creating economic opportunity for her impoverished Tribe.

Giving Staying Power to Solar Power

Kawerak, Inc. in Nome, Alaska, is a tribally owned and operated nonprofit consortium representing 20 communities in the Bering Strait region. To provide social, educational, economic, and other services to Native people in the region, Kawerak is creating future job opportunities for its youth by teaching them about renewable energy initiatives and advancing its agricultural operation at Pilgrim Hot Springs to address food insecurity.

Single Mom Adds to Native Americans' $2 Billion Economic Impact in Colorado

Single mom Andrea Lesher was inspired by her special-needs daughter to start her own business. One day, while doing research on her child’s medical condition, she discovered something eye-opening. “I learned that more Native American children have birth defects than any other minority group in the United States." She had a lightbulb moment: She would start a nonprofit organization someday to help Native American children born with extremely challenging health problems.
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