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Indiana
Native
American Business Association
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Mission:
~ To make
aware and promote the growth and success of Native
American owned business in Indiana
~To assist
and promote the growth of new Native American owned
businesses
~To improve
the economic and well being of all Native Americans |
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Who are we?
We are a
group of Native Americans in Indiana with businesses
ranging from the arts to heavy equipment and
construction.
Our objective is to provide business education and
training programs to cultivate quality entrepreneurial
skills.
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The
Indiana Native American Business held it's first business seminar on
Saturday, April 5, 2008
"Start ~
Grow ~ Succeed"
The seminar
was held in partnership with the Indiana Small Business
Administration. The Business Association extends its thanks
for hosting this event.
Speakers included Larry White of the Small Business
Administration. His presentation was starting your own
business. Following, was Gail Gesell, State Director of the
Small Business Association with her focus on financial needs and
requirements. Gwen Yeaman, Penobscot/Odawa, owner of Native Appraisals,
Inc talked about running your business successfully and Abdul
Shabazz, talk show host on WXNT-1430, finished with
"Positive" thinking in a not so positive
economy.
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Gwen
Yeaman, Penobscot/Odawa, as she talks about running a successful business.
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Her
company, Native Appraisals, Inc, Gwen
Yeaman credits having a foot in both the European and the Woodland
Indian Culture as her source for holistic understanding and
professional success. This perspective has allowed me to assist
in bringing together the needs of both cultures for nearly 20
years and has served in many capacities. Gwen retains her
ethical credibility and integrity as an independent
professional appraiser.
In
her teens she began researching and documenting 20,000 years of
basket, textile history, tool technology, plant utilization, and
Native lifeways. She found that all things lead her back to Mother
Earth for the only true answers. Out of this came a 15-year
lecture circuit, teaching to the tribes, serving many years as
Adjunct Professor of Native American Religion and Philosophy at
the university level and teaching appropriate versions of it to
historians and scholars.
Taken
from Gwen's website: www.nativeappraisal.com
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Officers;
President
Rebecca Victorino Martin, Acoma Pueblo
Vice President
Gayle Green, Pokogan Band Potawatomi
Secretary
MeLissa Williams, Eastern Band Cherokee
Treasurer
Tony Showa, Navajo
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Board
Members:
Gayle Green, Pokogan Band Potawatomi, Owner Gayle's Crafts
MeLissa Williams, Eastern Band Cherokee,
Tony Showa, Navajo, Owner, The Tables Edge
Sharon Patterson, Cherokee/Cree, Owner Patterson Transcription
Services
and Creative Bead Art
Olivia Little, Ponca
Enoch Corson, Navajo, Owner, Running Deer & Dancing Eyes
Design
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Native Americans helping Native Americans
For more information or
becoming a member please contact us at 317-580-0882.
Membership fees - $50.00 year
We are putting
together a Native American Business Directory -
to-date, we have 42 business owners in Indiana
Look for Bear Creek
Gallery, Running Deer & Dancing Eyes Design, Gayle's Crafts,
Torjani Designs, and Creative Bead Art at Conner Prairie in June.
Coming soon to Bear
Creek Gallery will be Gwen Yeaman for free educational information
on appraising your Native American jewelry and collectibles.
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We
are available to speak to your group or organization about Native
American culture,
arts and crafts and businesses
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