In March 2015, Citizen Potawatomi Nation welcomed the BDC Gun Room under a HEARTH Act lease. Thanks to the federal legislation, private companies that have long been unable or unwilling to invest in Indian Country now have a streamlined process to do business on federal trust land. The Hownikan spoke with BDC Gun Room owner Read More »
In 1987 the Tokyo Denki Kagaku Kogyo company opened for business in Shawnee, Okla., an event that tied the Oklahoma town with a fellow municipality in Japan. The sister city relationship with Nikaho was formalized by then-Shawnee Mayor Pierre F. Taron Jr. due to the Japanese city’s own ties with TDK and its home as Read More »
Since its official signing by Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell in November 2013, the HEARTH Act’s potential to create tribal-private business partnerships has been slow in coming. Much of this hesitation can be chalked up to outdated concerns of non-tribal businesses that remain wary of investing in Indian Country. Fears of instability tend to Read More »