Native America Calling

The U.S. Supreme Court ruling denying race-conscious college admissions has Native business owners on alert over the far-reaching implications beyond higher education. A recent federal judge’s decision puts an additional hurdle in front of Native businesses when it comes to a program in place to diversify federal contracts. Some experts and Native small business owners worry it’s only the beginning of a new system that will mean fewer successful Native entrepreneurs.

Monday, September 18, 2023 – Is the end of federal support for Native businesses in sight?

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The U.S. Supreme Court ruling denying race-conscious college admissions has Native business owners on alert over the far-reaching implications beyond higher education. A recent federal judge’s decision puts an additional hurdle in front of Native businesses when it comes to a program in place to diversify federal contracts. Some experts and Native small business owners worry it’s only the beginning of a new system that will mean fewer successful Native entrepreneurs.

GUESTS

Annette Hamilton (member of the Kickapoo Tribe of Kansas), vice president and Chief Operating Officer of Ho-Chunk, Inc.

Stephine Poston (Sandia Pueblo), CEO and president of Poston and Associates, LLC

 

Break 1 Music: Keep Rising (song) House of Shem (artist) Keep Rising (album)

Break 2 Music: Blue Dream Wedding Cake (song) Def-I (artist) Blue Hour (album)

Comments

  1. Lis of Alaska says

    Greetings,
    Love this show, so grateful. The additional requirement of narrative could be completed
    efficiently in a one sentence history lesson to authors of this absurd requirement:

    “Over six hundred and thirty-one years of attempted genocide against the Indigenious Peoples of what constitutes the United States of America; (this additional paperwork requirement as part of this application is a case in point) that has resulted in extreme poverty rates; health, education and environmental disparities relative to all other ethnic groups in this country, land displacement, lack of political representation, barriers to voting, MMIP, and still, hundreds of years later, broken federal treaties.”

    I’m guessing a statement such as this, while 100% true, wouldnt help my application much, what do you think? ?

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